Gennadi Zaichik (Russian: Геннадий Львович Зайчик; born 11 February 1957) is a Georgian chess and American (from 2002) Grandmaster (GM) (1984), two-times Georgian Chess Championship winner (1977, 1978).
In 1982 in Telavi he shared the 2nd place with Georgy Agzamov (behind Rafael Vaganian) in the Soviet Chess Championship First League.
In 1987 Gennadi Zaichik won Capablanca Memorial B tournament in Camagüey and shared 1st place with Viswanathan Anand) in Coimbatore.
In 2002, he shared 1st place with Evgeniy Najer in U.S. Open Chess Championship and won Richard Aronow memorial in Philadelphia.
[5] In recent years Gennadi Zaichik has rarely participated in chess tournaments, but still plays online chess.com games frequently.