Leonid Gofshtein is an Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

i chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 grandmaster.

In 1999 he tied for 1st-5th with Mikhail Gurevich

Mikhail Gurevich (chess player)

Mikhail Naumovich Gurevich is a Soviet chess player. He lived in Belgium from 1991 to 2005 and since then resides in Turkey....

, Aleksandar Berelovich, Sergei Tiviakov

Sergei Tiviakov

Sergei Tiviakov is a naturalised Dutch chess Grandmaster.Tiviakov won the Dutch Chess Championship in 2006 and 2007. In 2008, in Plovdiv, he won the European Individual Chess Championship with 8.5/11....

 and Rustam Kasimdzhanov

Rustam Kasimdzhanov

Rustam Kasimdzhanov is an Uzbekistani chess Grandmaster, best known for winning the FIDE World Chess Championship 2004. He was born in Tashkent, in the former Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic...

 in the open section of the Hoogeveen

Hoogeveen

Hoogeveen is a municipality and a town in the northeastern Netherlands.- Population centres :Elim, Fluitenberg, Hoogeveen and Noordscheschut, which still have the canals which used to be throughout the town...

 International tournament. In 2000 he came second in the Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv , officially Tel Aviv-Yafo , is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400 on a land area of . The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in west-central Israel. It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, with...

 International tournament and tied for 2nd-6th with Roman Slobodjan

Roman Slobodjan

Roman Slobodjan is a German chess grandmaster. Slobodjan won the 1995 World Junior Chess Championship.In the July 2011 FIDE list, he has an Elo rating of 2534.-External links:...

, Ventzislav Inkiov, Giorgi Bagaturov

Giorgi Bagaturov

Giorgi Bagaturov is a Georgian-Armenian chess grandmaster.He won the Georgian Chess Championship in 1989, 1995 and 1999 and played for Georgia in the Chess Olympiad of 1998....

 and Stefan Djuric in the Arco Chess Festival. In 2004 he tied for 1st-3rd with Michael Roiz

Michael Roiz

Michael Roiz is an Israeli chess Grandmaster.He learned to play chess at the age of 7. At the age of 9, he finished 2nd in the national championship under-10 category...

 and Evgeniy Najer

Evgeniy Najer

Evgeniy Najer is a Russian chess Grandmaster. In 2002 he shared the victory of the U.S. Open Chess Championship with Gennadi Zaichik and in 2003 won the Moscow City Chess Championship....

 in the Ashdod Chess Festival. In 2006, tied for 2nd-5th with Slavko Cicak

Slavko Cicak

Slavko Cicak is a Swedish chess Grandmaster .He played for Sweden in the Chess Olympiads of 2006 and 2008. In 2005 he tied for 6th-9th with Normunds Miezis, Joel Benjamin and Alexander Baburin in the European Union Championship...

, José González García

José González García

José González García is a FIDE chess grandmaster from Mexico. In the May 2010 FIDE list, he has an Elo rating of 2514....

 and Josep Manuel Lopez Martinez in the VIII Sants Open.

He played for Israel in the 30th Chess Olympiad

30th Chess Olympiad

The 30th Chess Olympiad, organized by the FIDE and comprising an open and women's tournament, as well as several events designed to promote the game of chess, took place between June 7 and June 25, 1992, at the Philippine International Convention Center in Manila, Philippines.-Individual...

 in Manila 1992. On the May 2010 FIDE list his Elo rating is 2537.

Gofshtein's handle on the Internet Chess Club

Internet Chess Club

The Internet Chess Club is a commercial Internet chess server devoted to the play and discussion of chess and chess variants. ICC currently has over 30,000 subscribing members...

 is "Orange".

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