Alik Gershon

Alik Gershon (born June 3, 1980 in Dnipropetrovsk ) is an Israeli chess player .

Life

The Alik Gershons family comes from the Ukraine and has lived in Israel since the end of 1990. He founded the first Israeli online chess magazine Schachnet . His book San Luis 2005 won the British Chess Federation Book of the Year . He is studying computer science.

He plays club chess in Israel for Hapoel Kfar Saba , with whom he became Israeli national champion in 1999 and took part in the European Club Cup 2002 in Kallithea (Chalkidiki) , where he received an individual bronze medal for his result of 5.5 points from 7 games on the second board received ( Elo rating 2693). He also played in the Romanian team championship. He played for Sa Dragonera in Majorcan and Spanish leagues .

successes

In 1993 he won the Israeli U16 championship. He was successful at youth world championships early on . In 1994 he won the U14 World Championship in Szeged . In 1996 he won the U16 World Championship in Cala Galdana . In 2000 he shared the win of the Israeli individual championship in Tel Aviv and Modiʿin with Boris Awruch , in the same year he also won the Tel Aviv International , a category 9 chess tournament , which was his second grandmaster norm. In 2002 he won the Chess Week Open in Winterthur .

He became international champion in 1997 and has held the grandmaster title since November 2000. His current Elo rating is 2458 (as of May 2020), which puts him in 35th place in the Israeli Elo ranking. His highest rating to date was 2573 in January 2003; at that time he was eighth in the Israeli Elo ranking.

On October 21, 2010, Gershon earned an entry in the Guinness Book of Records . He played 523 games in simultaneous chess , of which he was able to win 86%. He exceeded the required minimum percentage of 80 percent and replaced the previous record holder Morteza Mahjoob .

Publications

• San Luis 2005 . Quality Chess, Göteborg 2007, ISBN 978-91-976005-2-1 . (together with the Israeli chess trainer Igor Nor)

Web links

• Alik Gershon at the World Chess Federation FIDE (English)
• Replayable chess games by Alik Gershon on chessgames.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ New simultaneous world record attempt in Israel . Article on chessbase.com (English)
2. ↑ Greetings from Israel by Alon Greenfeld
3. ↑ Tel Aviv International in The Week in Chess # 282 of April 3, 2000 (English)
4. ↑ Winterthur Chess Week 2002
5. ↑ Political pawns: Iran loses chess record to Israel . Article in Matti Friedman (Associated Press) on October 22, 2010 (English)