Key facts
- Born
- Efim Petrovich Geller , ( 1925-03-08 ) 8 March 1925, Odessa , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union
- Died
- 17 November 1998 (1998-11-17) (aged 73), Moscow, Russia
- Country
- Soviet Union → Russia
- Title
- Grandmaster (1952)
- Peak rating
- 2620 (January 1976)
- Peak ranking
- No. 8 (January 1976)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Efim
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Place of birth
- Odesa
- Place of death
- Moscow
- Occupation
- chess player
- Educated at
- Odesa University
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Participant in
- 24th Chess Olympiad
- Sport
- chess
- Country for sport
- Russia
- Conflict
- Eastern Front
- Image
- Efim Geller, 1965 (cropped).jpg
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- place of burial
- Peredelkino Cemetery
- Commons category
- Efim Geller
- date of birth
- 1925-03-08
- date of death
- 1998-11-17
- Elo rating
- 2455
- name in native language
- Ефим Петрович Геллер
- title of chess person
- Grandmaster
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Encyclopedic overview
Efim Petrovich Geller (Russian: Ефим Петрович Геллер; Ukrainian: Юхим Петрович Геллер; 8 March 1925 – 17 November 1998) was a Soviet chess player and world-class grandmaster at his peak. He won the Soviet Championship twice (in 1955 and 1979) and was a Candidate for the World Championship on six occasions (1953, 1956, 1962, 1965, 1968, and 1971). He won four Ukrainian SSR Championship titles (in 1950, 1957, 1958, and 1959) and shared first in the 1991 World Seniors' Championship, winning the title outright in 1992.
His wife Oksana was a ballet dancer while his son Alexander was also a chess master. Geller was coach to World Champions Boris Spassky and Anatoly Karpov. He was also an author.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Efim Geller” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.