Yehuda Gruenfeld

Yehuda Grunfeld (Hebrew יהודה גרינפלד; born February 28, 1956 in Dzierżoniów ) is a deaf Israeli chess player.

Life and career

Green field began at the age of five with the game of chess. He was from the late 1970s to the 1990s, the dominant player of his country and occurs - as well as many other deaf players - both in regular tournaments as well as special competitions for people with disability to.

His international career began in 1974 when he traveled to the European Junior Championship in Groningen. Throughout his career, Grunfeld took previously participated in seven Chess Olympiads. He started six times this for Israel and since 2010 for the Association of the Deaf ( ICCD ): 1978 in Buenos Aires ( 2 -0 = 7 ), 1980 in Valletta ( 6 -3 = 2 ), 1982 in Lucerne ( 2 - 2 = 7 ), 1984 as team captain in Thessaloniki ( 3 -4 = 4 ), 1990 in Novi Sad ( 0 -3 = 5 ), 1992 in Manila ( 4 -1 = 4) and 2010 in Khanty-Mansiysk ( 5 -1 = 1). He secured a total of 37 points from 69 games.

He also played in the qualifying cycle for the World Chess Championship, which he in Riga and in 1987 in Zagreb reached 1979 Interzonal. 1980 and 1989 Grunfeld came on at the European Team Championships. One of his greatest successes came in 1984 with the victory at the Dortmund Chess days when he won with 7 ½ points from eleven games before Andras Adorjan and Alonso Zapata. Two years later he reached rank 42 in 1986 with his best finish in the FIDE world ranking list.

In June 2010 he took part with the Israeli team at the 16th Chess Olympiad ICSC Deaf in Croatia, which he finished with 5 -4 = 0 on the eighth of 17 ranks. Nearly a year later, led green field the team of the Deaf Association OASIS from Bat Yam in June 2011 to the 20th European Team Championships of the Deaf in Liverpool, where the team finished seventh out of ten squares with 2 -3 = 2. In May 2010, Grünfeld was first included in the ICSC World Ranking and came right away the first position. He replaced the long-standing leading Italian Duilio Collutiis, with whom he has since alternated at the top. Last Grünfeld was 2012 world ranking Leading in the calculation for January.

Success (selection)

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Internationally