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Svetozar Gligorić
Svetozar Gligorić was a Serbian chess grandmaster and musician. He won a record 11 titles at Yugoslav Chess Championship, a record 12 team medals at Chess Olympiad, and is considered the best player ever from Serbia and Yugoslavia. In 1958, he received the Golden Badge award for the best athlete of Yugoslavia.
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culture · Serbian chess grandmaster (1923–2012) · chess player · writer · autobiographer · journalist · Grandmaster · also Svetozar Gligorić, Gligorić
Born 2 February 1923 · Died 14 August 2012 · Q158050
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That's an excellent question! I'm definitely for B. The only point is that the tournaments must employ a slower (preferrably classical) time control in order for chess players and fans to be able to realise the genuine beauty and profundity of this complex game. Otherwise, many would indeed find no harmony in chess960, or not enough time to solve the problems it poses during games, and feel no need to take it up altogether.
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2026· 2 entries
“That's an excellent question! I'm definitely for B. The only point is that the tournaments must employ a slower (preferrably classical) time control in order for chess players and fans to be able to realise the genuine beauty and profundity of this complex game. Otherwise, many would indeed find no harmony in chess960, or not enough time to solve the problems it poses during games, and feel no need to take it up altogether.”
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2020· 1 entry
The public company "Pošta Srbije" released a series of new postage stamps called: "Chess Giants of Serbia"
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2019· 1 entry
FIDE established a fair play award named after Gligorić
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2012· 7 entries
The Independent: Svetozar Gligoric: Grandmaster who challenged Soviet dominance
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The Guardian: Svetozar Gligoric obituary
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Sarasota Herald-Tribune: Serb chess master Svetozar Gligoric dies at 89
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Seattle Times: Serb chess grandmaster Svetozar Gligoric dies
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Boston.com: Svetozar Gligoric, 89; chess grandmaster never won world championship
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The Daily Telegraph: Svetozar Gligoric
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Died 2012-08-14.
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1987· 1 entry
At the age of 64, Gligorić was among the top 100 for the last time in his career
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1986· 1 entry
A tournament he won together with Beliavsky and Vaganian, ahead of Tal, Geller and Smyslov
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1984· 1 entry
To 1985 he was the chief arbiter in the aborted marathon world title match between Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov
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1977· 1 entry
And silver in 1983) and two more individual golds on the second board (1980 and 1983)
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1973· 1 entry
Gligorić won his fourth silver medal at the European team championship seasoned with his third individual European medal – the already mentioned gold on the first board together with Boris Spassky
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1970· 1 entry
Gligorić participated in one of the greatest chess events of all time, The Match of the Century – USSR versus the Rest of the World
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1963· 1 entry
And 1967) while Petrosian was the World Champion stand out the most
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1959· 1 entry
And with 3½–5½ loss against Mikhail Tal in the quarterfinals of the 1968 Candidates match series
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1958· 1 entry
Received the Golden Badge award for the best athlete of Yugoslavia
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1953· 1 entry
Against Najdorf and two rounds later against Eliskases, winning both games
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1952· 2 entries
1958 and 1967 enabled him to participate in Candidates Tournaments the following years while narrowly missed the Candidates in 1962 and 1965
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1958 and 1967 enabled him to participate in Candidates Tournaments the following years
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1951· 1 entry
1960 (joint), 1963, 1966, and 1969 (joint) and 8 participations in the interzonal tournaments between 1948 and 1973 with his best result coming in 1958 when he was 2nd, half a point behind the future world champion, Mikh
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1947· 1 entry
(joint), 1948 (joint), 1949, 1950, 1956, 1957, 1958 (joint), 1959, 1960, 1963 and 1966
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1945· 1 entry
At the first post-war championship of Yugoslavia
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1938· 1 entry
When he won the Belgrade Chess Club championship; however, World War II interrupted his chess progress for a time
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1923· 1 entry
Born 1923-02-02.
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