Alik Gershon

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

Life

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

Club chess he played in Israel for Hapoel Kfar Saba, with whom he was in 1999 Israeli national champion and took part in the European Club Cup 2002 in Kallithea (Chalkidiki ), in which he an individual bronze medal for his score of 5.5 points out of 7 games on the second board received ( Elo performance of 2693 ). Also in the Romanian Team Championships he played. In Majorcan and Spanish leagues he played for Dragonera.

Achievements

In 1993 he won the Israeli Under-16 Championship. He had early success at Youth World Championships. He won in 1994 in Szeged, the U14 World Cup. In 1996 he won the U16 World Cup in Cala Galdana. In 2000 he shared the profits of the Israeli Individual Championship in Tel Aviv and Modi'in with Boris Awruch, the same year he also won the Tel Aviv International, a chess tournament in category 9, which his second grandmaster norm meant. In 2002 he won the Open the Chess Week in Winterthur.

International Master In 1997 he was the Grandmaster title he bears since November 2000 His current Elo rating is 2502 ( as of September 2010)., So that it is on the 22nd place of the Israeli Elo ranking. His previous highest Elo rating was 2573 in January 2003; then he was eighth in the Israeli Elo ranking.

On 21 October 2010, Gershon earned a place in the Guinness Book of Records. He played 523 games in simultaneous chess, of which he won 86%. It topped the required minimum percentage of 80 percent, replacing the previous record holder Morteza Mahjoob.

Publications

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