🔸World Blitz Championship 2017
🔸Round 4
⚪️Bacrot,Etienne (2725)
⚫️Bocharov,Dmitry (2583)
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🔸World Blitz Championship 2017
🔸Round 4
⚪️Ivanchuk,Vassily (2726)
⚫️Vidit,Santosh Gujrathi (2715)
🔸0-1

🔸 Boris Gelfand
🔸 ChessGrandmaster


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🔸 Boris Gelfand
🔸 ChessGrandmaster


♦️ Boris Abramovich Gelfand is an Israeli chess Grandmaster.
A six-time World Championship Candidate, he won the Chess World Cup 2009 and the 2011 Candidates Tournament, making him Challenger for the World Chess Championship 2012.

♦️Full property of Gelfand:👇🏼👇🏼

🔹Full name: Boris Abramovich Gelfand
🔹Country: Soviet Union Israel
🔹Born: 24 June 1968 (age 50) Minsk, Belarussian SSR, Soviet Union
🔹Title: Grandmaster (1989)
🔹FIDE rating: 2697 (January 2018)
🔹Peak rating: 2777 (November 2013)
🔹Ranking: No. 46 (December 2017)
🔹Peak ranking: No. 3 (July 1990)

♦️ Gelfand's chess career: 👇🏼👇🏼

🔹 IM (1987)
🔹GM (1989)
🔹Soviet Junior Champion (1985)
🔹European Junior Champion (1989)
🔹Olympiad Gold Medalist (1990)
🔹World Cup winner (2009)
🔹Candidate (1991, 1994, 2002 (Dortmund - PCA), 2007, 2011 and 2013)
🔹World Championship Challenger (2012)

♦️ In 1998 Gelfand won the 35th Rubinstein Memorial - Polanica-Zdroj POL ....
One of Gelfand's games from this international tournament against Alexey Shirov 👇🏼👇🏼

♦️ Chess Informant Best Games:👇🏼👇🏼

▪️ Boris Gelfand vs Alexey Shirov
▪️ Rubinstein Memorial 35th (1998), Polanica-Zdroj POL, rd 4, Aug-20
▪️ Gruenfeld Defense: Exchange. Modern Exchange Variation (D85)

♦️ Review and download annotated PGN file👇🏼👇🏼

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▪️ Boris Gelfand vs Alexey Shirov
▪️ Rubinstein Memorial 35th (1998), Polanica-Zdroj POL, rd 4, Aug-20
▪️ Gruenfeld Defense: Exchange. Modern Exchange Variation (D85)

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▪️ Boris Gelfand - Alexey Shirov , Rubinstein Memorial 35th (1998)
▪️ Annotated By Gelfand & Huzman
▪️PGN format

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⚪️#207 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Pelletier,Y
🔸Sebag,M
🔸French Team Championship, 2007

📕 24.Ne1!
A key move. The knight is heading for the protected square at c5, where it will attack the weak pawns on b7 and e6, while restricting Black on the open file.
24.Ne3?! Rfc8
24.g3 f4!

⚪️#208 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Kasparov,G
🔸Beliavsky,A
🔸Moscow 1983

📕 26.Kf2!
A clever move that improves the king and clears the path for the rook. Black is completely helpless.
26.a5 Nc7
26.Nc4? Nf4 -/+

⚫️#209 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Yates,Frederick Dewhurst
🔸Nimzowitsch,Aron
🔸Semmering Panhans 1926

📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 209

B: Bb4 – 4
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 50%

C: Re3 – 3
👍👍👍👍👍 38%

A: Q×b2 – 1
👍👍 13%

👥 8 people voted so far.

⚫️#210 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Spassky,Boris
🔸Petrosian,Tigran
🔸World-ch 1969

📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 210

C: Nd8 – 8
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 73%

B: Re8 – 3
👍👍👍 27%

A: Bc6
▫️ 0%

👥 11 people voted so far.

Dražen Marović (standing), Albin Planinc & Boris Spassky chat before play in the 14th round of the Amsterdam IBM tournament, 2nd August 1973.

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David Bronstein, pictured in play v. Alexander Jongsma in the opening round of the Amsterdam IBM tournament, 16th July 1968.

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Anatoly Karpov and Boris Spassky, pictured during the 41st USSR Championship, which took place in Moscow during October 1973.

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