Who says chess isn’t cool? Days after falling in his quest for the world chess title, Israel grandmaster Boris Gelfand was given a rock star’s welcome back home Friday to raucous cheers and ...

Position No. 6086: White to play and win. From the game Peter Svidler-Tomi Nyback, World Cup, Khanty-Mansiysk 2009. Solution to Position No. 6085: White wins with 1 Qd8! (inviting 1 . . . Rxd8 2 ...

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How do you train to be come a world champion ship challenger? After becoming the newest challenger, Boris Gelfand offered some tips. When he was a boy in Minsk, Gelfand got a copy of a collection o… ...

MOSCOW – World chess champion Viswanathan Anand of India retained his title on Wednesday, defeating Israeli challenger Boris Gelfand 2.5-1.5 in a rapid tiebreaker round. Tied at 6-6 after 12 ...

Israel’s top-ranked player won the 2009 Chess World Cup. Boris Gelfand, a grand master from Rishon LeZion, defeated former world champion Ruslan Ponomariov of Ukraine in a playoff Monday in the ...