BORIS GELFAND (born Jun-24-1968, 56 years old) Belarus (federation/nationality Israel) [what is this?] 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). Preamble Boris Gelfand's longevity as a player, and his ability to maintain his playing strength, are legendary. Born in Minsk in Belarus (then part of the USSR), he emigrated to Israel in 1998 where he currently resides. One of the most experienced of the elite players in the world, he has been a contender for the World Championship for most of his life, starting in 1991 when he first contested the Candidates, and culminating with his closely fought, if unsuccessful, challenge for the world crown in 2012 when he was 44 years old. Championships <Age> Gelfand won the Junior Championship of the Soviet Union with 9/11 in January 1985, at the age of 16, a half point ahead of Vassily Ivanchuk. He came =1st (2nd on count back to Joel Lautier) in the World Junior Championship in 1988 and became European Junior Champion in 1989. <World> In 1990, Gelfand won the Manila Interzonal to qualify as a Candidate for the 1993 World Championship. At the 1991 Candidates, he prevailed over Predrag Nikolic, but was then defeated in the quarter final by eventual Candidates winner and championship challenger Nigel Short. He qualified for the FIDE 1994 Candidates event by winning the last Interzonal in Biel, beating Michael Adams and Vladimir Kramnik only to lose to Anatoly Karpov in the finals. Gelfand competed in all the knockout tournaments that either determined the World Championship, or was part of the World Championship cycle apart from the 2004 tournament in Tripoli. In the knockout tournament that was held in Groningen in 1997, he defeated Lautier in round three, where he was seeded directly because of his results in the last FIDE cycle, and then beat Vladislav Ivanovich Tkachiev and Aleksey Dreev before bowing out to the winner of the tournament, Viswanathan Anand. In the world championship knockout tournament of 1999 held in Las Vegas, Gelfand was seeded into the second round where he defeated Jonathan Speelman, and then beat Lautier in round three before losing to the eventual winner, Alexander Khalifman. In 1999 in New Delhi, he was again seeded into round 2 where he defeated Emir Dizdarevic, and then Jeroen Piket in round three before he was defeated by Alexey Shirov in round four. In the 2001-02 knockout tournament held in Moscow, Gelfand lost to Peter Svidler in round 5 after defeating Alexis Cabrera, Leinier Dominguez Perez, Aleksander Petkov Delchev and Zurab Alekseyevich Azmaiparashvili. He played in the 8-player 2002 Dortmund Tournament, which was the Candidates for the Classical World Chess Championship match in 2004, but failed to reach the semi-finals after coming third in the quadrangular round robin preliminary round. Gelfand finished 6th at the World Cup (2005), which produced 10 Candidates for the 2007 Candidates tournament, defeating Watu Kobese, Ruben Felgaer, Levan Pantsulaia, and Dreev in the preliminary rounds. In the two rounds of matches at the 2007 Candidates, Gelfand won both the Candidates Match: Gelfand - Kasimdzhanov (2007) and the Candidates Match: Gelfand - Kamsky (2007) to qualify for the World Championship Tournament (2007) in Mexico City, where he tied for second with Kramnik, a point behind the winner, Anand. Subsequently, he won the World Cup (2009) by defeating Judit Polgar, the then reigning World Junior Champion Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Dmitry Jakovenko, and Sergey Karjakin to reach the final, where he then faced former FIDE World Champion Ruslan Ponomariov, winning the match 7-5 in a playoff. In doing so he qualified for the World Championship Candidates (2011) for another shot at the World Championship in 2012. He played and defeated Shakhriyar Mamedyarov by 2.5-1.5 (+1 =3 -0) in the first round of the World Championship Candidates (2011), moving into the semi final where defeated Gata Kamsky in the tiebreaker; the result was 2-2 (+0 -0 =4) in the classical games, 2-2 (+1 -1 =2) in the rapid tiebreaker, and 1.5-0.5 in his favour in the blitz tiebreaker. He faced Alexander Grischuk in the final match, and after five draws, Gelfand won the sixth and final game thus gaining the right to challenge Viswanathan Anand for the world crown. The Anand - Gelfand World Championship Match (2012) was played in Moscow in May 2012, and Gelfand lost in the rapid game tiebreaker 1.5-2.5 (-1 =3) after drawing the 12 games played under classical time controls 6-6 (+1 -1 =10). As the loser in the World Championship match, he qualified to play in the World Championship Candidates (2013) in London, where he placed a rating-enhancing 5th with 6.5/14 (+2 -3 =9). Gelfand’s results in the FIDE Grand Prix 2008-2010 were modest, coming 11th. His 2014 World Championship campaign started well when he placed =1st alongside Veselin Topalov and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov at the FIDE Grand Prix London (2012), scoring 7/11 (+4 -1 =6; TPR 2836) and netting GP 140 points from the event. However, his 10th place out of 12 placement at the FIDE Grand Prix Tashkent (2012) and his =9th at the FIDE Grand Prix Beijing (2013) eliminated him for the contest for the top two in the Grand Prix series, and attendant qualification into the 2014 Candidates Tournament. However, a strongly motivated player, Gelfand placed =1st (2nd on tiebreak) at the FIDE Grand Prix Paris (2013) alongside Fabiano Caruana to place 4th in the Grand Prix series with 325 points. He had another chance to qualify for the Candidates via the World Cup (2013) to which he qualified by rating; he defeated Bangladeshi GM Ziaur Rahman in the first round, Uzbek GM Anton Filippov in the 2nd round and Ukrainian GM Alexander Moiseenko in the third round. However, he was eliminated by eventual semi-finalist French GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the Round of 16 (round 4), reversing the same result against the same player in the same round of the World Cup of 2009. Qualifying by rating for the 2014-15 Grand Prix Series portion of the 2016 World Championship cycle, Gelfand was =1st alongside Fabiano Caruana with 6.5/11 in the first leg of the Series, namely the FIDE Grand Prix Baku (2014). This earned Gelfand 155 GP points. In the second leg, the FIDE Grand Prix Tashkent (2014), Gelfand suffered a lapse of form, placing =11th and earning only an extra 15 GP points. Although he performed strongly at the final leg of the series at FIDE Grand Prix Khanty-Mansiysk (2015), it was insufficient to qualify for the Candidates Tournament of 2016. His remaining chance to qualify for the Candidates in 2016 by his own effort was dashed at the World Cup (2015), for which he qualified via his rating, when in the shock of the first round he was defeated by the young Chilean IM Cristobal Henriquez Villagra and eliminated from the Cup. His final and somewhat slim chance is to be nominated as the Organizer's wild card entry for the Candidates Tournament. Tournaments Gelfand has an imposing tournament record dating back to the late 80s. He won or came =1st at Klajpeda 1988, Majorca (GMA) 1989, Moscow 1992, Wijk aan Zee 1992, Manila 1993, Chalkidiki 1993, Biel 1993, Dos Hermanas 1994, Debrecen and Belgrade in 1995, Vienna and Tilburg in 1996, Polanica Zdroj in 1998 and 2000, and Malmö in 1999. He also won at Pamplona Tournament (2004). In 2005, he was =1st with Pentala Harikrishna at the Bermuda International (2005) and 1st at 38th Biel Chess Festival (2005). In 2010 he was in the Experience Team that narrowly lost against the Rising Stars at the Rising Stars - Experience (2010), although he top scored in the tournament with 7/10. He also won outright first with 7/10 at the 2010 NH Tournament in the Netherlands. Other strong results include 2nd at Linares 1990, 3rd at Tilburg 1990, 3rd at the Reggio Emilia of 1991/92, 2nd in the category 16 tournament in Munich 1993, 3rd at Dortmund in 1996, 2nd in the 14th Dr Milan Vidmar Memorial tournament in Slovenia, 3rd at Biel 2001, 2nd at the category 18 tournament in Cannes in 2002 behind Topalov, =3rd at Dortmund Sparkassen (2006), and 4th at the Tal Memorial (2006) a half point behind joint leaders, Ponomariov, Peter Leko and Levon Aronian. In 2009, he came 2nd behind Ivanchuk at Bazna Tournament (2009). Also in 2010, he came 2nd in the King's Tournament (2010) behind Magnus Carlsen. In the lead up to his World Championship contest with Anand, Gelfand competed at the category 21 Tata Steel Group A (2012) tournament at Wijk aan Zee, finishing 9th out of 13, scoring 5/13 (+2 -5 =6; TPR 2675). In April/May 2013, he came =1st with 5.5/9 at the category 20 Alekhine Memorial (2013), coming 2nd on tiebreak behind Aronian and then went one better in June with an extraordinary outright win at the category 22 Tal Memorial (2013) - ahead of outright 2nd placed Magnus Carlsen - on the day before his 45th birthday. This result also raised his rating to a career high of 2773 in the July lists and returned him to the top 10. Olympiads Gelfand played in ten Chess Olympiads, representing the Soviet Union once (1990), Belarus twice (1994 and 1996), and Israel eight times (2000-2014). In 1990, he won the team gold medal playing board 2 for Soviet Union, in the Olympiad (2008) held in Dresden, he won the team silver medal and also individual silver medal playing board 1 for Israel and in the Chess Olympiad (2010) held in Khantiy Mansiysk, he won team bronze playing board 1 for Israel. Team Gelfand is a team player and has participated in the German Bundesliga, and team championships in Israel, Spain, Poland, and Russia. He has also been part of the European Team Championships, the European Club Cup, the Russian Club Cup and the World Team Championships, the last in 2005, 2009 and 2015. One of his best results was assisting his Moscow team ShSM-64 to win the Russian Team Championship (2010) with 16 out of a possible 18 match points. Playing for SHSM-64, he won team bronze at the European Club Cup (2012) concluded in October 2012. Matches Outside of the world championship cycle, Gelfand has played matches in France against Etienne Bacrot in 2002 which he lost 2.5-3.5, and a drawn match (2-2) against David Navara in the Czech Republic in 2006. In 2015 he lost the Ding Liren - Gelfand (2015) match by 1-3 (=2 -2). Rapids Like most top players, Gelfand is a skilled rapid player. He was =1st with Kramnik in the rapid play section of the 2001 Amber event, and outright 1st in the 2002 edition of Amber's rapid play section. He came first in the 2002 Cap d'Agde, defeating Karpov in the final. In 2003, he defeated Polgar in the George Marx Rapid Match (2003) and in 2007, he came =1st at the Villa de Canada de Calatrava (2007), following up with =1st at the Pivdenny Bank Chess Cup (2008) in Odessa. He also won the 2009 ACP World Rapid Cup (2009) with a 3-1 win over Svidler in the finals and won the Leko - Gelfand Match (2010) rapid match in Hungary by 4.5-3.5. Most recently, he defeated Aronian in the Leon Rapid (2010) and made the final of the London Chess Classic (Knockout) (2013). However in July, he lost a rapid match to Svidler by 3-5. Ratings Gelfand has been one of the top 20 players in the world, rated 2700+, for most of his life. He first entered the top 100 in July 1988 with a bullet, when he leapt to #33 in the world while still an IM, one who had just turned 20, and has remained in the top 100 since that time. His highest ranking to date was in January 1991, when he was #3 in the world behind Kasparov and Karpov, with a rating of 2700. Gelfand's highest rating to date was 2777 in November 2013 when he was ranked #7 in the world. Other In 2005, Gelfand published a book titled My Most Memorable Games. Interview: Part 1 - http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail... Part 2 - http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail... and Part 3 - http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail... Live rating list: http://www.2700chess.com/ Extended biography of Gelfand at the official FIDE 2012 World Championship website: http://moscow2012.fide.com/en/prese... Article by the Indian Express dated 6 May 2012: http://www.indianexpress.com/news/m... Wikipedia article: Boris Gelfand Last updated: 2020-11-23 12:52:29

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page 1 of 141; games 1-25 of 3,525  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. M Glizer vs Gelfand   1-0 28 1979 Krylenko Memorial (Juniors) B92 Sicilian, Najdorf, Opocensky Variation 2. Rozentalis vs Gelfand   1-0 21 1981 Trade Unions Championship (Juniors) B22 Sicilian, Alapin 3. A Kapengut vs Gelfand 0-1 65 1982 Sokolsky Memorial C05 French, Tarrasch 4. Gelfand vs A Cherepkov   0-1 70 1982 Sokolsky Memorial C50 Giuoco Piano 5. Gelfand vs V Veremeichik 0-1 47 1982 Sokolsky Memorial E12 Queen's Indian 6. A Ryskin vs Gelfand   0-1 37 1982 Sokolsky Memorial E75 King's Indian, Averbakh, Main line 7. Minasian vs Gelfand   1-0 38 1982 Sochi U16 selection B51 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack 8. Gelfand vs Dreev   0-1 62 1982 Sochi U16 selection B40 Sicilian 9. Gelfand vs Vyzmanavin   ½-½ 51 1983 Belarusian Championship A46 Queen's Pawn Game 10. Gelfand vs S Begun   ½-½ 21 1983 Belarusian Championship C03 French, Tarrasch 11. Gelfand vs A Kovalev 0-1 38 1983 Belarusian Championship B62 Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer 12. A Deiko vs Gelfand   ½-½ 39 1983 Belarusian Championship B87 Sicilian, Fischer-Sozin with ...a6 and ...b5 13. Gelfand vs V Veremeichik   1-0 59 1983 Belarusian Championship A46 Queen's Pawn Game 14. S Yuferov vs Gelfand   1-0 54 1983 Belarusian Championship A54 Old Indian, Ukrainian Variation, 4.Nf3 15. Gelfand vs V Litvinov   1-0 37 1983 Belarusian Championship B93 Sicilian, Najdorf, 6.f4 16. P Korzubov vs Gelfand 0-1 57 1983 Belarusian Championship B93 Sicilian, Najdorf, 6.f4 17. V Dydyshko vs Gelfand   1-0 41 1983 Belarusian Championship E94 King's Indian, Orthodox 18. B Maryasin vs Gelfand 1-0 66 1983 Belarusian Championship B95 Sicilian, Najdorf, 6...e6 19. Gelfand vs M Shereshevsky   ½-½ 72 1983 Belarusian Championship C07 French, Tarrasch 20. Gelfand vs B Malisov   1-0 56 1983 Belarusian Championship B07 Pirc 21. B Itkis vs Gelfand   1-0 40 1983 Belarusian Championship A48 King's Indian 22. L Basin vs Gelfand   ½-½ 34 1983 Belarusian Championship D35 Queen's Gambit Declined 23. Gelfand vs O Chernikov   ½-½ 23 1983 Belarusian Championship D46 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav 24. E Mochalov vs Gelfand   ½-½ 75 1983 Belarusian Championship D37 Queen's Gambit Declined 25. Gelfand vs A Blodstein 0-1 39 1984 USSR Junior Championship A60 Benoni Defense  page 1 of 141; games 1-25 of 3,525

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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 26 OF 34 ·  Later Kibitzing> Jun-01-12    Petrosianic: Anand made little effort to put the pressure on him. A Draw-with-Black strategy coupled with 25 moves draws with White just doesn't put a top GM to the test like a more dynamic approach might. Anand was a better player, but didn't create situations where his superior ability could be brought to bear. The result; an overtime squeaker. Jun-01-12    solskytz: <Troller> I concur!! Not to mention that also in the rapids the guy wasn't really inferior - creating very serious chances in 3 out of 4 games, making Anand sweat in general, and losing in a game where he could have changed the result at many points. Not that clear cut!! But losing is losing, ofc Anyway, I still wait to see how he will fare, with all of his new preparations and repertoire, in the next candidates cycle Jun-01-12    solskytz: I'll be very pleased, finally, to see Ivanchuk battling it out for the WC next time - and I root for either him, or Gelfand or the top 3. It won't be boring (and I regret that Nakamura isn't in, which would make it perfect) Jun-01-12    solskytz: <HeMateMe> I tend to disagree with this viewpoint. Carlsen isn't (yet?) a clearly superior player - and that is what makes the next WCC so exciting. He's really great!! But so are Aronian and Kramnik, and to a somewhat lesser extent, the others (Nakamura among them, who isn't participating..) Jun-01-12    solskytz: <Eyal> to be frank I feel that 20-25 percent each, is way to generous for Carlsen and Aronian, when Kramnik, Radjabov, Grischuk, Gelfand and Ivanchuk - but especially Kramnik, are also participating (for some reason I'm not so convinced about Svidler... so maybe he's the winner next time?) Go Gelfand!! Jun-01-12    Eyal: <Anand made little effort to put the pressure on him. A Draw-with-Black strategy coupled with 25 moves draws with White just doesn't put a top GM to the test like a more dynamic approach might.> The "25 moves draws with White" had a lot to do with the superb quality of Gelfand's preparation and opening play - it's not that Anand was just lazy or unambitious. When he had real winning chances (and the game wasn't over after 17 moves...), as in game 3, he had no problem to go on playing. And there he missed a win in time trouble that resulted mainly from the long time Gelfand made him burn on the clock in the opening. As Ganguly (one of Anand's seconds) admitted in his review of the match, Gelfand kept surprising them with Black. In games 1, 5, and 10 he equalized quickly without much trouble (with the Grunfeld, Sveshnikov, and the 5...e5 idea against the 5.b3 Rossolimo, respectively) - Anand just didn't manage to generate any real pressure. The position at the end of game 5 is completely dead, and in games 1 & 10 if anyone has a very slight edge it's Black. In game 12 Anand did manage to catch Gelfand in the opening with a nuance on the move order of game 10, but Gelfand came up otb with 10...c4 which managed to neutralize White's play. Anand could have shown a little more fighting spirit in that game and played on for more than 22 moves, but it's not like objectively he had serious winning chances; the main surprise about the early draw offer was due of the big advantage on the clock that he had at that point. Game 8 was a different story, of course... And this immediate equalizing of the score may have saved Anand, who would have been otherwise under enormous pressure in the final games. Jun-01-12    Petrosianic: <The "25 moves draws with White" had a lot to do with the superb quality of Gelfand's preparation and opening play - it's not that Anand was just lazy or unambitious. When he had real winning chances (and the game wasn't over after 17 moves...), as in game 3, he had no problem to go on playing.> The thing is, you can't give up trying that early. If you say "Well, it's Move 20, and I still haven't got an edge. Let's call it a draw." You have to work a little harder to get that edge, especially if you feel sure you can't lose the game by continuing. You also need to play lines that give the opponent more opportunity to go wrong. Granted, you might go wrong also, but the odds are in the better player's favor. Jun-01-12    Eyal: <The thing is, you can't give up trying that early. If you say "Well, it's Move 20, and I still haven't got an edge. Let's call it a draw." You have to work a little harder to get that edge, especially if you feel sure you can't lose the game by continuing.> But all this can be relevant, if at all, only to game 12 (where Anand may have been influenced by a confidence in his chances at the rapid games), not as a description of Anand's play with White throughout the whole match. Sometimes games just play themselves out quickly – in game 5 the final position, with the BOOC and no Q-side pawns, is really dead (after the forced queen exchange to follow); it would have been a pure formality to go on. In games 1 & 10, if a continuation could risk anyone, it's likelier to be White than Black. Even if there was something irritating about the short draws from the viewpoint of a chess fan (and I can certainly identify with this sentiment), there's simply nothing in the nature of the positions to give any serious indication that Anand would have gained anything in any of his four short draws with White by going on. So I don't think this can be given as a serious reason for why Anand didn't do better in the match. <You also need to play lines that give the opponent more opportunity to go wrong. Granted, you might go wrong also, but the odds are in the better player's favor.> Again, you're not giving enough credit to the quality of Gelfand’s opening prep. Most of Anand's basic opening choices were quite aggressive and potentially very tricky for Black. Both the Grunfeld games went into very sharp positions. His readiness for entering the Sicilian was aggressive (Anand didn't know Gelfand was going to pull the Sveshnikov – judging by the latter's usual opening repertoire, it was more likely to expect the Najdorf). His ideas in the Rossolimo, as game 12 (as well as the 2nd tiebreak game, btw) showed, were quite aggressive. Gelfand just managed very skillfully to neutralize him most of the time (in 4 out of the 6 classical games). Jun-01-12    Petrosianic: <Again, you're not giving enough credit to the quality of Gelfand’s opening prep.> All right, well let's do two things. First, let's draw a distinction between Zero Advantage and All Played Out. Then, tell me which games you think qualify. I'm perfectly happy with Game 9. You say you're happy with Game 5. Which others are you happy with? With the whole world watching, you can play on a while even with Zero Advantage, as long as your opponent doesn't have a game that he can close his eyes and let play itself. Which of the others do you think are that drawn? I'm decidedly unhappy with Game 1. That might have burned out to a draw in a few moves, but it was still worthwhile to play on a bit longer just to make sure. Jun-01-12    Eyal: First, let's make clear that I'm talking only about Anand's 6 games with White, because it's the claim about the "25 moves draws with White" as seriously hurting Anand's chances in the match that I'm disagreeing with. Well, I suppose there are no complaints about game 8, which was decisive, and about game 3, where Black forced a draw by perpetual check. I already said what I think about game 5. Now, I was somewhat disappointed with the conclusions of the three other games, but in two of them for reasons that actually go in the opposite direction to that of your argument. In game 1 it was clear that if anyone was fighting for a win it's Black, and the general surprise was about why Gelfand agreed so easily to a draw. In game 10 there were some chances for Black related to the a-pawn passer if White doesn't play carefully – not very difficult to neutralize, but still something. So I'm not enthusiastic about the general approach of <both> players in those games, but in terms of overall hypothetical (and very small) chances missed, I think Gelfand might have been the actual loser here rather than Anand. Jun-01-12    frogbert: <but I wouldn't give even [carlsen & aronian] more than 20-25% [chance] each.> eyal, i would give them even less, actually. Jun-01-12    frogbert: <also in the rapids [gelfand] wasn't really inferior> i don't think it would be a stretch to say that gelfand maybe played even *better* than anand, at least for most of these 4 rapid games. of course, one might also say that he did so by investing too much time without capitalizing on the positions that this strategy brought him. Jun-02-12    wordfunph: a touching homecoming celebration by Boris.. http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail... Jun-02-12    shach matov: Congratulations to Boris, this was a victory in every sense of the word. Anand's statement that basically this was one of the toughest matches of his life speaks volumes. Jun-02-12    MORPHYEUS: If Gelfand maintained his composure in the rapids, he would have been the world champion. It's not his destiny. Jun-02-12    Ken MacGillivray: <Call Me TC><: Here's a word: LOSER> wish I had the chess skills to be such a LOSER and come home with prizemoney of $1.02 million. On second thoughts, forget the money, wish I had the skills to win the right to be world champion challenger, that would be reward enough Jun-04-12    whiteshark: <wordfunph: a touching homecoming celebration by Boris.. > Yes, indeed. :D Jun-08-12    Chessinfinite: Well done Boris Gelfand !. Great performance to hold Viswanathan Anand in the match to equal. Best wishes to Gelfand from india.. Jun-09-12    voyager39: Yes, Gelfand has done exceptionally well. Nobody expected Boris to win the candidates in the first place. Aronian and Kramnik were the favourites. Even Topalov, Grischuk and Radjabov were considered better prospects. Yet Boris won. The only achievement I would attribute to Anand is that he did well not to underestimate Boris. In terms of hard work, quality of play and nerves, they were both equal. As Anand himself pointed out - a lot of elite players just couldn't digest the fact that Boris could play with such nerves of steel and with such ambition and authority. Full marks to Boris and he is a real hero who deserves his place in the Chess hall of fame. Jun-09-12    voyager39: <frogbert> <I don't think it would be a stretch to say that gelfand maybe played even *better* than anand, at least for most of these 4 rapid games. Of course, one might also say that he did so by investing too much time without capitalizing on the positions that this strategy brought him> I totally agree. It was simply a time issue. Given a few more minutes - the result could have been exactly the opposite. IMHO we need to change something here. We can't have "time" as a decisive factor in a game that is all about "intelligence". Like I keep saying - it's like a "power cut" being the most memorable part of the episode. That's sad. Jun-10-12    dx9293: Wow, so Gelfand refused help from Kasparov on ethical grounds. Kudos to him. <http://www.chessvibes.com/reports/b...> Jun-10-12    Mr. Bojangles: <IMHO we need to change something here. We can't have "time" as a decisive factor in a game that is all about "intelligence". > Who told u chess is all about intelligence?? Which rule book or manual did u find that? Chess is simply a game. End of. Jun-10-12    Mr. Bojangles: Thx dx9293, it was a pleasure reading Gefy's interview. I have the highest respect possible for the man. Jun-10-12    alexmagnus: Calculation, intuition, positional understanding... but not intelligence (which is first to be defined!). After all, even computer can play, and usually they say intelligence is what separates us from the machines. Jun-11-12    whiteshark: Great interview, indeed. A must read: http://www.chessvibes.com/reports/b... Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 34) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 26 OF 34 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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