Eduard Gufeld
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Eduard Yefimovich Gufeld (March 20, 1936 – September 23, 2002) was a Ukrainian International Grandmaster of chess. He was also a trainer who moved to Tbilisi, and coached Women's World Champion Maia Chiburdanidze. After the fall of the Soviet Union, he emigrated to the USA.
Gufeld was one of most prolific authors in all of chess, writing over 100 chess books. His proudest achievements, however, were his win against Bagirov, which he called his "Mona Lisa," and his 1967 win over Vasily Smyslov (see below). The first of these games made it into John Nunn's collection of the hundred greatest games of all time. Gufeld beat Smyslov again in 1975.
Gufeld was well known for his obesity. In September of 2002, Gufeld suffered a massive stroke that left him in a coma. He died two weeks later at the age of 66 in the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
Here is Gufeld's 1967 win over Smyslov:
Spartakiade, Moscow 1967 Smyslov-Gufeld 1.c4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.b4 Bg7 4.Bb2 O-O 5.e3 b6 6.d4 c5 7.dxc5 bxc5 8.b5 a6 9.a4 Ne4 10.Bxg7 Kxg7 11.Qd5 Qa5+ 12.Ke2 Bb7 13.Qxb7 Nc6 14.Nfd2 Ra7 15.bxc6 Rxb7 16.cxb7 Qb4 17.Nxe4 Qb2+ 18.Nbd2 Qxa1 19.Nxc5 Rb8 20.g3 Qa3 21.Nxd7 Rxb7 22.Bh3 Qd6 23.c5 Qd5 24.f3 Rb2 25.Rd1 e6 26.c6 Qc4+ 27.Ke1 Qd3 28.Bf1 Qxe3+ 29.Be2 a5 30.f4 f6 31.c7 Rc2 32.Kf1 Rxc7 33.Nc4 Rxc4 34.Bxc4 Qf3+ 35.Ke1 Qc3+ 0-1
[edit] Books
- Chess: The Search for Mona Lisa, ISBN 0-7134-8477-2
- Leonid Stein: Master of Risk Strategy, ISBN 0-938650-54-8
- Chess Strategy, ISBN 0-7134-8775-5
- My Life in Chess, ISBN 1-879479-21-4
