Boris Gulko

Boris Gulko
2002 U.S. Chess Championships
Full name	Boris Franzevich Gulko
Country	Soviet Union (until 1986) Israel (1986) United States (since 1987)[1]
Born	(1947-02-09) February 9, 1947 (age 77) Erfurt, Soviet occupation zone of Germany
Title	Grandmaster (1976)
FIDE rating	2542 (November 2024)
Peak rating	2644 (January 2000)
Peak ranking	No. 14 (January 1989)

Boris Franzevich Gulko (Russian: Борис Францевич Гулько, IPA: [bɐˈrʲiz ɡʊlʲˈko]; born February 9, 1947) is a Soviet-American Grandmaster in chess. Notably, he is the only person to win both the Soviet Chess Championship and the U.S. Chess Championship, and one of the few players with a plus score against Garry Kasparov.