Josif Dorfman

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Josif (Josef, Iossif, Iosif) Davidovich Dorfman (born 1 May 1952, Zhitomir) an Ukrainian-French chess master.

Dorfman played in several USSR championships. In 1975, he took 13th in Yerevan (43rd URS-ch; Tigran Petrosian won). In 1976, he tied for 5-7th in Moscow (44th URS-ch; Anatoly Karpov won). In 1977, he was joint USSR Champion with Boris Gulko. The subsequent play-off match was drawn (+1 –1 =4). In 1978, he took 17th in Tbilisi (46th URS-ch). In 1981, he tied for 8-9th in Frunze (49th URS-ch; Lev Psakhis and Garry Kasparov won). In 1984, he took 12th in Lvov (51st URS-ch; Andrei Sokolov won).

In tournaments he tied for 2nd-4th at Pecs 1976, took 2nd at São Paulo 1978, tied for 2nd-4th at Polanica Zdrój 1978, 1st-3rd at Djakarta 1979, 3rd-5th at Manila 1979. He won at Zamardi 1980. He was 1st= at Lvov 1984, 1st at Moscow 1985, and 5th= at Minsk 1986.

He acted as one of Garry Kasparov's seconds in his first four World Championship matches against Anatoly Karpov. Later Dorfman moved to France. In 1998, he won in Méribel (73rd FRA-ch).

He played for France in three Chess Olympiads.

  • In 1998, at 2nd board in the 33rd Olympiad in Elista (+3 –0 =6);
  • In 2002, at 2nd board in the 35th Olympiad in Bled (+1 –1 =8);
  • In 2004, at 3rd board in the 36th Olympiad in Calvia (+2 –0 =8).

Awarded the IM title in 1977 and the GM title in 1978.

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