Chess News

While Israel may possess one of the world’s best players and a strong national side, you would think that chess gets some serious government backing. Actually, just like in Australia, it doesn’t.

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The Closet Grandmaster: State of Chess in Israel

You call that a sport? Ha’aretz Chess grandmaster Boris Gelfand is one of Israel's greatest athletes of all time. This was true even before Monday, when he won the Chess ..

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You call that a sport? – Ha’aretz

Boris Gelfand, Israel’s top-ranked chess player, won the 2009 Chess World Cup by defeating former world champion Ruslan Ponomariov of Ukraine in a playoff Dec. 14 in the Russian town of Khanty-Mansiysk.

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Israel’s No. 1 chess player wins title (J Weekly)