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Uncommon card · Society
Boris Gelfand, an Uncommon card
Boris Abramovich Gelfand is a Belarusian and Israeli chess grandmaster.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 67
- DEF
- 61
- Power
- 128
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 33,000
Power 128 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
Boris Gelfand quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Boris Gelfand card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Gelfand has won major ______ at Wijk aan Zee, Tilburg, Moscow, Linares and Dos Hermanas.
Answer
tournaments. Gelfand has won major tournaments at Wijk aan Zee, Tilburg, Moscow, Linares and Dos Hermanas. From the Boris Gelfand article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Balkan sprachbund. Balkan sprachbund 78 · Kristýna Plíšková 75 · Nikolai Khabibulin 70 · Boris Gelfand 67 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- A six-time World Championship candidate, he won the Chess World Cup 2009 and the 2011 Candidates Tournament, making him challenger for the World Chess Championship 2012.
- Although the match with defending champion Viswanathan Anand finished level at 6–6, Gelfand lost the deciding rapidplay tiebreak by 2½–1½.
- Gelfand has won major tournaments at Wijk aan Zee, Tilburg, Moscow, Linares and Dos Hermanas.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Boris Gelfand article was read about 33,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 67 and blocks with 61: each hit it takes is cut by 24 %.
How to get Boris Gelfand
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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The cards just above and just below Boris Gelfand in the power ranking, all domains together.
- SpittingUncommon · Science · ATK 67 DEF 61
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- Alex TothUncommon · History · ATK 71 DEF 57
- CostumeUncommon · Society · ATK 65 DEF 63
- CarvoneUncommon · Science · ATK 64 DEF 64
- Edward BellamyUncommon · Arts · ATK 66 DEF 62
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- Tier listS and A tiers by power (ATK + DEF)
Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Boris Gelfand (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : TheBoburshokh, CC0, Wikimedia Commons.
