- Gedali Szapiro
Gedali Shapiro (Grzegorz Szapiro) (later Gedalia Shapira) (
28 October 1929 –28 December 1972 ) was a Polish–Israeli chess master, born inSiedlce .citation
last=Gaige | first=Jeremy | author-link=Jeremy Gaige
year=1987 | title=Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography
publisher=McFarland
isbn=0-7864-2353-6
page=415]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 Olympiad s. [ [http://www.olimpbase.org/players/g6k8ukaf.html Shapiro, Gedali] team chess record at olimpbase.org]
* In 1956, at first reserve board in 12th Olympiad in Moscow (+1 –4 =2) for Poland;
* In 1962, at second reserve board in 15th Olympiad in Varna (+4 –2 =5) for Israel.He tied for 4-5th with
Yair Kraidman , behindMilan Matulović ,Petar Trifunović andMoshe Czerniak , at Netanya 1961.He died in
Rishon Lezion , Israel.References
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