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Gedali Szapiro
View on WikipediaGedali Shapiro (Grzegorz Szapiro) (later Gedalia Shapira) (Hebrew: גדלי שפירו; 28 October 1929 – 28 December 1972) was a Polish–Israeli chess master, born in Siedlce.[1]
He tied for 7-8th at Wrocław (Breslau) 1955 Polish Championship. He played for “Poland B” in 3rd Triennial Cup (HUN–CSR–POL) at Warsaw 1956.
Szapiro played twice in Chess Olympiads.[2]
- In 1956, at first reserve board in 12th Chess Olympiad in Moscow (+1 –4 =2) for Poland;
- In 1962, at second reserve board in 15th Chess Olympiad in Varna (+4 –2 =5) for Israel.
He tied for 4-5th with Yair Kraidman, behind Milan Matulović, Petar Trifunović and Moshe Czerniak, at Netanya 1961.
He died in Rishon Lezion, Israel.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Gaige, Jeremy (1987), Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography, McFarland, p. 415, ISBN 0-7864-2353-6
- ^ Shapiro, Gedali team chess record at olimpbase.org
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