Boris Gelfand
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בוריס גלפנד | |
During the Tata Steel Chess, 2012 | |
| Full name | Boris Abramovich Gelfand |
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| Born | 24 June 1968 Minsk, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Title | Grandmaster (1989) |
| FIDE rating | 2652 (June 2025) |
| Peak rating | 2777 (November 2013) |
| Ranking | No. 75 (June 2025) |
| Peak ranking | No. 3 (July 1990) |
Boris Abramovich Gelfand (Hebrew: בוריס אברמוביץ גלפנד; born 24 June 1968) is a Belarusian-Israeli chess player.
A six-time World Championship candidate (1991, 1994–95, 2002, 2007, 2011, 2013), he won the Chess World Cup 2009 and the 2011 Candidates Tournament, making him challenger for the World Chess Championship 2012. Although the match with defending champion Viswanathan Anand finished level at 6–6, Gelfand lost the deciding rapidplay tiebreak by 2½–1½.
Gelfand has won major tournaments at Wijk aan Zee, Tilburg, Moscow, Linares and Dos Hermanas. He has competed in eleven Chess Olympiads and held a place within the top 30 players ranked by FIDE from January 1990 to October 2017.