Efim Petrovich Geller (Russian: Ефим Петрович Геллер; Ukrainian: Юхим Петрович Геллер; 8 March 1925 – 17 November 1998) was a Soviet chess player and...

13½/19, and the remaining qualifiers were Victor Korchnoi with 13 and Efim Geller and Leonid Stein with 12. Notable players who failed to qualify from...

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Efim Geller had told Spassky about the strong move 14...Qb7 during their preparation, but Spassky had forgotten the advice and played 14...a6. Geller...

Efim Geller, who finished 3rd in the 1962 Candidates. Spassky won, earning the right to challenge champion Petrosian for the title. Larsen and Geller...

Flohr, Viktor Korchnoi, Efim Geller, Savielly Tartakower, Mark Taimanov, Milan Vidmar, Svetozar Gligorić, Isaac Boleslavsky, Efim Bogoljubov and Bent Larsen...

Keres (Soviet Union)  Iivo Nei (Soviet Union) 27 1965  Lajos Portisch (Hungary)  Efim Geller (Soviet Union) 28 1966  Lev Polugaevsky (Soviet Union) 29 1967  Boris...

included in his opponents' totals. Bent Larsen went on to win, with Korchnoi, Geller, Gligorić, and Portisch taking the next four places. There was a three-way...

Finland  Soviet Union 21 Paul Keres, Vasily Smyslov, David Bronstein, Efim Geller, Isaac Boleslavsky, Alexander Kotov  Argentina 19½ Miguel Najdorf, Julio...

competition so far, as it included other masters like Tigran Petrosian and Efim Geller, who were already ranked amongst the best players in the world. Nezhmetdinov...

Swindle of the Century". Reshevsky vs. Geller, 1953 Reshevsky also fell into a stalemating trap against Efim Geller in the Zürich 1953 Candidates Tournament...

director Efim Etkind (1918–1999), Russian philologist Efim Fradkin (1924–1999), Russian physicist Efim Geller (1925–1998), Soviet chess grandmaster Efim Jourist...

since Alexander Alekhine defeated Efim Bogoljubov in the 1934 World Championship. However, Spassky defeated Efim Geller, Bent Larsen, and Viktor Korchnoi...

2640 Lajos Portisch  Hungary 2630 Mikhail Botvinnik  Soviet Union 2630 Efim Geller  Soviet Union 2630 Lev Polugaevsky  Soviet Union 2630 Mikhail Tal  Soviet...

Smyslov 10, Keres 9½, Geller 9. In the penultimate round, Keres lost in a winning position against Filip, while Smyslov and Geller drew their games, giving...

vs. Efim Geller, Sukhumi Candidates' match 1968, game 6, Sicilian Defence, Closed Variation (B25), 1–0 One of three wins by Spassky over Geller in this...

2620 1971-07 Leonid Stein 2620 1972-07 Ljubomir Ljubojević 2620 1976-01 Efim Geller 2620 1976-01 Vlastimil Hort 2620 1977-01 19 Paul Keres 2615 1971-07 Robert...

while Reshevsky drew with Geller and Bronstein also drew. In round 25, Smyslov defeated Reshevsky, while Bronstein lost to Geller and Keres had the bye....

Tigran Petrosian in 1966. In the 1969 cycle, he won matches against Efim Geller, Bent Larsen, and Viktor Korchnoi to win the right to challenge a second...

successes in this tournament was his win against Russian grandmaster Efim Geller. He was awarded Padma Shri at age 18. In the 1993 World Chess Championship...

Mikhail Tal, with prominent grandmasters Viktor Korchnoi, Miguel Najdorf, Efim Geller, John Nunn, Svetozar Gligorić, Wolfgang Uhlmann, and Ilya Smirin having...

Amsterdam Interzonal, with 17/23. However he lost his first-round match to Efim Geller. In 1983, at the age of 62, he went through to the Candidates' Final...

 Henrique Mecking (Brazil) 2575 - ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 12 2-4  Efim Geller (Soviet Union) 2585 ½ - ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 0 1 1 1 11½ 89.50 2-4...

0 ½ ½ Does not appear ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 15 6  Efim Geller (USSR) 0 0 ½ 1 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ Does not appear 1 1 ½ 0 0 1 ½ ½ 0 1 1 ½ ½...

for alternates, an eventual third-place Candidates' position, against Efim Geller by 5–4 at Copenhagen 1966 (the first time a Soviet grandmaster had ever...

non-Soviet – specifically him – from winning. He claimed that Petrosian, Efim Geller and Paul Keres had prearranged to draw all their games, and that Viktor...

men's team consisted of Lev Polugaevsky, Wolfgang Uhlmann, Oscar Panno, Efim Geller, Borislav Ivkov and Vasily Smyslov. The women's team consisted of Judit...

games (+11−1=7) with the world-class players Petrosian, Keres, Gligorić, Efim Geller, and Miguel Najdorf among the other participants. Tal played in a total...

(IM) title in 1964. He was one of Boris Spassky's seconds (along with Efim Geller and Nikolai Krogius) for the 1972 Fischer–Spassky World Championship...

Sergey Makarichev and Igor Zaitsev. Other assistance was provided by Efim Geller and Evgeni Vasiukov. Kasparov's seconds were Grandmaster Josif Dorfman...