Gedali Szapiro

Gedali Shapiro (Grzegorz Szapiro) (later Gedalia Shapira) (28 October 1929 - 28 December 1972) was a Polish-Israeli chess master, born in Siedlce.

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.

• In 1956, at first reserve board in 12th Chess Olympiad in Moscow (+1 -4 =2) for Poland;
• In 1962, at second reserve board in 15th Chess 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.