Israeli Chess Grandmaster Loses and Wins at Same Time
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Chess Grandmaster Boris Gelfand. Photo: streathambrixtonchess.blogspot.com.
Fox News/AP – Israel’s latest cultural hero is neither the usual army general nor a sexy celebrity — he’s a bespectacled 43-year-old Belarus-born chess grandmaster.
Israelis have been riveted by Boris Gelfand’s three-week battle for world chess supremacy. Despite coming up just short this week, losing in a sudden-death round, his efforts have attracted new fans and drawn attention to Israel as a surprising chess powerhouse.
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