{{short description|Israeli chess player}} {{Infobox chess player | image = Bella Igla Dec2008.JPG <!-- only free-content images are allowed for depicting living people - see WP:NONFREE --> | caption = Israeli Championship Finals, December 2008 | country = Russia<br />Israel | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1985|6|2}} | birth_place = Tambov, Soviet Union | death_date = | death_place = | title = Woman Grandmaster (2004) | rating = 2284 (July 2015) | peakrating = 2299 (July 2005) |native_name=בלה גסר|native_name_lang=he}}
'''Bella Gesser''' ({{langx|he|בלה גסר}}), {{née}} '''Igla''' ({{langx|he|בלה איגלה}}; {{langx|ru|Белла Игла}}; born June 2, 1985), is an Israeli chess player holding the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM). In 2004, she won the Israel Women's Chess Championship.
Igla started her career at the Russian Chess Federation, playing in competitions including the Russian Youth Chess Championship (ru), in the categories U12 and U16. She moved to Israel in 1998. Igla transferred national federations from Russia to Israel in 2001.<ref>[http://ratings.fide.com/fedchange.phtml?year=2001 Player transfers in 2001] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180709065045/http://ratings.fide.com/fedchange.phtml?year=2001 |date=2018-07-09 }}. FIDE.</ref>
Igla represented Israel in three Chess Olympiads: * The 36th Chess Olympiad in 2004, Calvià, Majorca (Spain), at board 3, with a 69% result (+6 =6 −1). * The 37th Chess Olympiad in 2006, Turin, Italy, at board 3, with a 59% result (+5 =3 −3). * The 38th Chess Olympiad in 2008, Dresden, Germany, playing at the second/third boards. She achieved an 80% result (+8 =0 −2), helping her country arrive at the ninth place in the women's competition.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://schachlive.dresden2008.de/player/2806819/index.eng.html |title=Igla's results at the 2008 Chess Olympiad |access-date=2008-12-20 |archive-date=2024-11-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241127003957/http://schachlive.dresden2008.de/player/2806819/index.eng.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>[http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1226404814242&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull Article about Israel in the 2008 Chess Olympiad]{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, ''The Jerusalem Post'', November 24, 2008</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{FIDE}} * {{Chessgames player|54836}} * {{365Chess.com player|Bella_Gesser}} * {{OlimpBase women's player|1j91l9db|Bella Igla}}
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