Eduard Gufeld (19 March 1936 – 23 September 2002) was a Soviet International Grandmaster of chess. He was also a well-known chess writer with over 80 books about chess to his credit.
Gufeld was born in Kiev, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (modern Ukraine) and later, lived in the city of Tbilisi in the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic (modern Georgia). His early tournaments include winning the Ukrainian Chess Championship in 1960 and the Championship of the Spartak Sports Society in 1963.
Due to his proactive play style, Gufeld was awarded the International Master (IM) title by FIDE in 1964 and the Grandmaster title three years later in 1967. He won numerous first-place finishes in international tournaments such as Hastings in 1968/9 and Las Palmas 1970 among others.
Some of the notable games of Gufeld were against grandmasters like Bobby Fischer (1960), Vasily Smyslov (1967), and Anatoly Karpov (1967). His widely-analyzed game against Bagirov at the USSR Championship in 1973 is widely regarded as his "Mona Lisa".
After his spells in Tbilisi and Moscow during the 1960s and 70s, Gufeld split his time between Los Angeles and Tbilisi in the 1990s. Aside from playing chess, he was also a regular lecturer at the Dake Chess Club in Beverly Hills, California and was featured in a chess column for the Los Angeles Times.
Gufeld passed away after a stroke in 2002 in Los Angeles, California. He is remembered for his contributions to chess, both as a Grandmaster and an author.