Gedali Szapiro

Gedali Szapiro

Gedali Shapiro (Grzegorz Szapiro) (later Gedalia Shapira) (28 October 192928 December 1972) was a Polish–Israeli chess master, born in Siedlce.citation
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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 Olympiads. [ [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, behind Milan Matulović, Petar Trifunović and Moshe Czerniak, at Netanya 1961.

He died in Rishon Lezion, Israel.

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