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Alik Gershon
A Gershon 
Courtesy of aargauerzeitung.ch 

Number of games in database: 344
Years covered: 1992 to 2021
Last FIDE rating: 2433 (2365 rapid)
Highest rating achieved in database: 2558
Overall record: +137 -92 =115 (56.5%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games in the database.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 Sicilian (30) 
    B90 B47 B42 B56 B33
 King's Indian (19) 
    E92 E94 E93 E90
 Grunfeld (13) 
    D97 D92 D96 D99
 Slav (12) 
    D15 D10 D16 D17 D11
 Queen's Gambit Declined (12) 
    D31 D35 D37 D36
 Nimzo Indian (10) 
    E32 E39
With the Black pieces:
 Sicilian (74) 
    B62 B22 B57 B56 B63
 Sicilian Richter-Rauser (21) 
    B62 B63 B64 B65 B60
 Queen's Indian (18) 
    E12 E15 E14
 Nimzo Indian (15) 
    E20 E46 E32 E55 E29
 English, 1 c4 c5 (11) 
    A33 A36 A37
 Modern Benoni (10) 
    A57 A58
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NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   A Gershon vs P Stefanek, 1992 1-0
   A Gershon vs Chandler, 1999 1-0
   A Gershon vs Timman, 2001 1-0
   I Tsesarsky vs A Gershon, 2000 0-1

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
   Israeli Championship (2000)
   World Youth Championship (Under-14) (1993)
   World Junior Championship (2000)
   Lost Boys Open (1997)
   Amsterdam Lost Boys Open (1998)
   Israeli Championship (2004)
   Israeli Team Championship (2019)
   Aosta Open (2004)
   Dutch Open (1999)
   World Junior Championship (1999)
   European Championship (2000)
   Israeli Championship (1994)
   Berliner Sommer (1994)
   World Junior Championship (1997)
   European Championship (2003)

GAME COLLECTIONS: [what is this?]
   1995 WYCC (open) U-16 by gauer

RECENT GAMES:
   🏆 TCh-ISR
   T Haimovich vs A Gershon (Jun-25-21) 1-0
   M Gorodetzky vs A Gershon (May-07-21) 0-1
   A Gershon vs M Nedobora (May-01-21) 1/2-1/2
   A Gershon vs F Fleish (Apr-23-21) 1/2-1/2
   D Raznikov vs A Gershon (Apr-05-19) 0-1

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ALIK GERSHON
(born Jun-03-1980, 44 years old) Ukraine (federation/nationality Israel)

[what is this?]
Grandmaster. He was the World Under-14 champion in 1994 and World Under-16 champion in 1996. Israeli champion in 2000 (=Boris Avrukh). The Guinness Book of Records certified his simultaneous exhibition against 523 opponents as being the largest ever by one player. The result, breaking Iranian GM Morteza Mahjoob 's 2009 world record, was 454 wins 58 draws and 11 losses. The exhibition started on 21 October 2010 and finished the next morning.* This record stood for only a few months until February 2011 before Iranian GM Ehsan Ghaem Maghami in turn broke the record.

* http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail...

Wikipedia article: Alik Gershon


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 page 1 of 14; games 1-25 of 344  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. A Gershon vs P Stefanek  1-0221992Wch U12C29 Vienna Gambit
2. V Malakhov vs A Gershon  ½-½541992Wch U12B83 Sicilian
3. Sutovsky vs A Gershon  1-0481993Kfar Sava-AB80 Sicilian, Scheveningen
4. M Hrivnak vs A Gershon  0-1751993World Youth Championship (Under-14)A04 Reti Opening
5. A Naumann vs A Gershon  ½-½401993World Youth Championship (Under-14)B82 Sicilian, Scheveningen
6. R Leitao vs A Gershon  0-1291993World Youth Championship (Under-14)A57 Benko Gambit
7. A Galkin vs A Gershon  ½-½271993World Youth Championship (Under-14)B83 Sicilian
8. A Gershon vs F Peralta  1-0481993World Youth Championship (Under-14)B42 Sicilian, Kan
9. A Sharma vs A Gershon  0-1251993World Youth Championship (Under-14)A81 Dutch
10. A Gershon vs A Matikozian  1-0161993World Youth Championship (Under-14)B82 Sicilian, Scheveningen
11. A Gershon vs V Malakhov  0-1511993World Youth Championship (Under-14)B06 Robatsch
12. A Gershon vs Sadvakasov  0-1501993World Youth Championship (Under-14)B40 Sicilian
13. A Gershon vs M Mchedlishvili  1-0331993World Youth Championship (Under-14)B88 Sicilian, Fischer-Sozin Attack
14. P Simacek vs A Gershon  0-1301993World Youth Championship (Under-14)B81 Sicilian, Scheveningen, Keres Attack
15. R Fontaine vs A Gershon  0-1551994Wch U14B81 Sicilian, Scheveningen, Keres Attack
16. A Gershon vs H Blachmann  ½-½441994Berliner SommerB01 Scandinavian
17. A Gershon vs R Rechel  1-0291994Berliner SommerC02 French, Advance
18. A Campanile vs A Gershon  ½-½331994Berliner SommerA85 Dutch, with c4 & Nc3
19. Bagirov vs A Gershon  1-0401994Berliner SommerA01 Nimzovich-Larsen Attack
20. H Weber vs A Gershon  0-1431994Berliner SommerA89 Dutch, Leningrad, Main Variation with Nc6
21. A Berelowitsch vs A Gershon  1-0321994Berliner SommerB40 Sicilian
22. A Gershon vs H Lieb  0-1371994Berliner SommerC02 French, Advance
23. A Gershon vs R Zunker  1-0281994Berliner SommerB06 Robatsch
24. A Gershon vs S Richter  1-0271994Berliner SommerB31 Sicilian, Rossolimo Variation
25. A Gershon vs L Vajda  1-0371994Wch U14C53 Giuoco Piano
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Kibitzer's Corner
Jun-03-08  BIDMONFA: Alik Gershon

GERSHON, Alik
http://www.bidmonfa.com/gershon_ali...
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Oct-15-10
Premium Chessgames Member
  ketchuplover: Good luck on your world record chess simul attempt.
Oct-22-10  Whitehat1963: Cool! Gershon sets world record with his 19-hour simul exhibit.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/2010102...

Oct-23-10  wordfunph: “Hopefully all our wars against Iran will be on the chessboard.”

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper...

congrats GM Gershon!

Oct-24-10
Premium Chessgames Member
  ketchuplover: ditto!
Nov-11-10  jmi: "Bending the rules".... *cough cough*

http://www.vosizneias.com/67891/201...

"According to regulations, all players had to be registered members of the local chess association who reached a certain level of playing. However, Yedioth Ahronoth discovered that some 300 of the 525 players were school children, transported to the event on special buses.

Most of the children were not members of the chess association, and some supposedly learned the rules of chess only a day before the competition. Some of the students who were approached by Yedioth Ahronoth were unable to answer fundamental questions about chess.

On top of it, chess officials reportedly made sure that high-level chess players do not participate in the event. Notably, Gershon needed to win more than 80% of the games in order to break the record."

Nov-12-10  eyalbd: The record is Kosher

http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail...

Mar-11-11
Premium Chessgames Member
  GrahamClayton: I liked Gershon's comment just before the exhibition - "I will get into the Guinness Book of Records either as the record breaker or the first person to drop dead while giving a simul."

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