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    Borislav Ivkov (12 November 1933 – 14 February 2022) was a Serbian chess Grandmaster. As one of the most decorated players in the history of Chess Olympiad...
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  • Ivkov (Bulgarian: Ивков) is a Slavic masculine surname, its feminine counterpart is Ivkova. It may refer to Borislav Ivkov (1933–2022), Serbian chess Grandmaster...
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  • player Borislav Ivanov, Bulgarian chess player Borislav Ivkov, Serbian chess Grandmaster Borislav Mihaylov, Bulgarian former football goalkeeper Borislav Milanov...
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    Reshevsky (United States) +1−5=24 Mark Taimanov (Soviet Union) +5−3=12 Borislav Ivkov (Yugoslavia) +10−2=42 Pal Benko (United States) +5−2=10 Wolfgang Unzicker...
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    (July) – Eighteen players played an 11-round Swiss-system tournament. Borislav Ivkov dominated the tournament with an undefeated 9.5-1.5, 1.5 points ahead...
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    the 1958/59 US Championship (scoring 8½/11). He tied for third (with Borislav Ivkov) in Mar del Plata (scoring 10/14), a half-point behind Luděk Pachman...
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    Aleksandar Matanović, Braslav Rabar, Andrija Fuderer, Nikola Karaklajic, and Borislav Ivkov, which attained prominence immediately after the end of World War II...
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    Spassky won at Belgrade 1964 with an undefeated 13/17, as Korchnoi and Borislav Ivkov shared second place with 11½. He finished fourth at Sochi 1964 with...
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    +0−3=15 Miguel Najdorf: +3−1=5 Pal Benko: +8−1=3 Wolfgang Uhlmann: +4−0=3 Borislav Ivkov: +3−1=11 Svetozar Gligoric: +10−2=22 Tal, Mikhail (2001) [1970]. Tal–Botvinnik...
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     Yugoslavia 26½ Svetozar Gligorić, Aleksandar Matanović, Borislav Ivkov, Nikola Karaklajić, Borislav Milić, Božidar Đurašević  Hungary 26½ László Szabó, Gedeon...
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    Tigran Petrosian, Ljubomir Ljubojevic, Ulf Andersson, Jan Timman and Borislav Ivkov. Matanovic represented Yugoslavia in 11 Chess Olympiads (1954-72, 1978)...
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    recovered by sharing 1st–2nd places at Beverwijk 1961 on 7½/9 with Borislav Ivkov. At Zürich 1961, he tied for 6th–7th places with 6/11, as Keres won...
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    player for much of the 1960s and 1970s behind Svetozar Gligorić and Borislav Ivkov. He was primarily active before 1977, but remained an occasional tournament...
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    a four-way playoff for two berths at Prague 1970 with 4/6, against Borislav Ivkov, Jan Smejkal, and Ulf Andersson. He advanced, but narrowly missed Candidates'...
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    tournament victories were scored at Sarajevo (Bosna) 1967, equal with Borislav Ivkov, Hastings 1967–68, shared, Kecskemét 1968, Tallinn 1969, Pärnu 1971...
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    Low) Tom Veitch 80 Comic book writer United States (Bellows Falls) Borislav Ivkov 88 Chess player Serbia (Belgrade) 15 February 2022 Onur Kumbaracıbaşı...
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  • Kg8 46.Rd2 Kh7 47.Rdf2 Rf8 48.Qd2 Rgf7 49.Qe3 ½–½ Laszlo Barczay vs. Borislav Ivkov, Sousse Interzonal 1967 1. e4 g6 2. d4 Bg7 3. Nf3 d6 4. Bc4 a6 5. 0-0...
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    consisted of Lev Polugaevsky, Wolfgang Uhlmann, Oscar Panno, Efim Geller, Borislav Ivkov and Vasily Smyslov. The women's team consisted of Judit and Zsuzsa Polgár...
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  • 0/11, including former World Championship Candidates Mark Taimanov and Borislav Ivkov, the first ever World Junior Chess Champion. WGM Tamar Khmiadashvili...
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  • Polugaevsky and Boris Spassky, Svetozar Gligorić and Vasily Smyslov, Borislav Ivkov, etc. The fourth tournament held in 1965 was marked by an unusual circumstance...
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    (1931–2011), MLB player Milunka Lazarević (1932–2018), chess player Borislav Ivkov (born 1933), chess player Eli Grba (1934–2019), American League Champion...
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  • Bosnia & Herzegovina. The tournament was won by Svetozar Gligorić and Borislav Ivkov. http://www.perpetualcheck.com/show/show.php?lan=cp&data=Y1958001&job=r1...
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  • retrieved 26 January 2025 Schulz, André (16 February 2022), Remembering Borislav Ivkov (12 November 1933 – 14 February 2022), ChessBase, retrieved 18 February...
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    Tigran Petrosian Soviet Union 23 1961 Bent Larsen Denmark 7½/9 83.3 Borislav Ivkov SFR Yugoslavia 24 1962 Petar Trifunović SFR Yugoslavia 6/9 66.7 25 1963...
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    Averbakh 1954/55 Hastings Paul Keres Vasily Smyslov 1955 Mar del Plata Borislav Ivkov Zagreb Vasily Smyslov Interzonal Tournament Gothenburg David Bronstein...
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    Smyslov (URS) 2620 9½ 9  Samuel Reshevsky (USA) 2590 8½ 10  Wolfgang Uhlmann (GDR) 2570 8 11  Borislav Ivkov (YUG) 2570 7½ 12  Predrag Ostojić (YUG) NR 2...
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    qualify from the interzonal, Stein and Bronstein were ineligible. Instead Ivkov qualified. The sixth and final place in the Candidates Tournament was decided...
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    Chess Championship in 1953, ahead of such future strong Grandmasters as Borislav Ivkov, Bent Larsen, and Fridrik Olafsson. He also won the championship of...
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    games with Hans Berliner, Borislav Ivkov and others as part of the peer group of strong Yugoslav players contemporary with Borislav Milić. Aside from chess...
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    1970 with 10/15, ahead of Laszlo Szabo. Also in 1970, Keres's 3:1 win over Ivkov on the tenth board gave victory to the Soviet team in the match vs Rest...
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