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...human participants included Wolff, who counts in his career victories a defeat of world champion Garry Kasparov of the former Soviet Union, Boris Gulko, a former Soviet Union chess champion, and Joel Benjamin, who ranks third among U.S. grandmaster...
...event, which was to benefit the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA), four of the best American grandmasters--Boris Gulko, maxim Dlugy, Michael Rohde and Patrick Wolff--played about 30 opponents simultaneously outside the restaurant...
Prompted by Soviet policy of anti-semitism, Gulko and Achsharumova first attempted to emigrate from the USSR in 1979. At that time their request was denied...
...wanted to emigrate for that reason [official anti-semitism], but instead, they put us into a worse class, as refuseniks," said Gulko...
...refuseniks, the couple was not allowed to compete in chess tournaments. But seven years out of the limelight did not destroy the couple's reputation. "The KGB couldn't take away our prestige in the chess world," Gulko said...