While many of you may know about Sofia the middle sister of the famous chess playing Polgar sisters, perhaps you do not know as much about our other special guest GM Yona Kosashvili. So here is some background:Born in the Soviet Republic of Georgia in 1970, he later emigrated to Israel and performed at a very high level and became a GM. His highest FIDE rating was 2549. This was good for 57th in the world at that time. Although not presently active in competitive chess, his current rating of 2522 still places him at 18th among all Israeli players.
There were many highlights to his chess career, including excellent play for the Israel team in the 1990 Olympiad in which he won an individual silver medal, and besting the computers in 1999 at the 12th Aegon Human vs. Computer Tournamnet. One of the most recent highlights was his tie with GM Viktor Korchoi for first place in the Curacao International Tournament of 2002. He also won the blitz tournament outright beating Sophia in the finals! Here is the ChessBase report of that event: http://www.chessbase.com/newsprint.asp?newsid=612
His replay his win over Korchoi in that tournament, click the following link: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1258060
More of his games are available at: http://www.365chess.com/players/Yona_Kosashvili or http://www.chessgames.com/player/yona_kosashvili.html
He married Sophia Polgar in 1999 and has two children Alon and Yova. The family presently resides in Toronto, Ontario, Canada where he is a practicing orthopedic surgeon. To read some abstracts regarding some his medical publications go to: http://lib.bioinfo.pl/auid:5295016
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