{{short description|Israeli chess grandmaster (born 1980)}} {{Infobox chess player |name = Alik Gershon |image = |caption = |country = {{ISR}} |birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1980|6|3}} |birth_place = Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine |death_date = |death_place = |title = Grandmaster (2000) |peakrating = 2573 (January 2003) |FideID = 2802430 |native_name=אליק גרשון|native_name_lang=he}} '''Alik Gershon''' ({{Langx|he|אליק גרשון}}; born 3 June 1980, in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine) is an Israeli chess grandmaster. On 21 October 2010 he set the Guinness World Record for simultaneous games after playing 523 opponents in Tel Aviv. After 18 hours and 30 minutes, he won 454 games (86%), lost 11 and drew 58.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://reports.chessdom.com/news-2010/alik-gershon-sets-world-record|title=GM Alik Gershon sets new Guinness World Record for simultaneous games|publisher=Chessdom|accessdate=25 October 2010| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20101026073611/http://reports.chessdom.com/news-2010/alik-gershon-sets-world-record| archivedate= 26 October 2010 | url-status= live}}</ref> On 9 February 2011 his record was broken by Iranian chess grandmaster Ehsan Ghaem-Maghami.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chessdom.com/news-2011/ehsan-ghaem-maghami-chess-record|title=Ehsan Ghaem Maghami sets Guinness Chess Record|date=10 February 2011 |publisher=World Chess Federation|accessdate=19 April 2011}}</ref>
He was the World Under-14 champion in 1994 and World Under-16 champion in 1996.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=6741|title=New simultaneous world record attempt in Israel|date=2010-10-15|publisher=ChessBase.com|accessdate=25 October 2010| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20101019124556/http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=6741| archivedate= 19 October 2010 | url-status= live}}</ref> In 2000 he won the Israeli Chess Championship (tied with Boris Avrukh).
In 2007, his book ''San Luis 2005'' (coauthored with Igor Nor) won the English Chess Federations Book of the Year award.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4457|title=Alik Gershon and Igor Nor on San Luis 2005|date=2008-02-18|publisher=ChessBase.com|accessdate=25 October 2010| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20101021222823/http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4457| archivedate= 21 October 2010 | url-status= live}}</ref>
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==External links== * {{chessgames player|id=17845}} * [http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=6764 Israeli GM Alik Gershon breaks simul world record] ChessBase
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