Vasja Pirc (/ˈpɪərts/ PEERTS; Slovene pronunciation: [ˈʋâːsja ˈpîːɾt͡s]) (December 19, 1907 – June 2, 1980) was a Yugoslav chess player. He is best known...

pawns on d4 and e4. It is named after the Slovenian grandmaster Vasja Pirc. The Pirc Defence is usually defined by the opening sequence 1. e4 d6 2. d4...

PIRC may refer to: Vasja Pirc, chess grandmaster Parental Information and Resource Centers, a program in the U.S. Department of Education Pensions & Investments...

moves. In 1952, Isaac Boleslavsky tried the opening against Vasja Pirc (after whom the Pirc Defence is named), but they agreed to a draw after move 62...

Chess Olympiad Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia  Yugoslavia 45½ Svetozar Gligorić, Vasja Pirc, Petar Trifunović, Braslav Rabar, Milan Vidmar Jr., Stojan Puc  Argentina...

Alexandria Peter Romanovsky Isaac Kashdan Daniel Yanofsky Robert Wade Vasja Pirc Milunka Lazarević Requirements for the title of International Arbiter...

9-10th at Birmingham 1951 (Staunton Memorial, won by Petar Trifunović and Vasja Pirc), and won the British Championship in 1951. GER-ch 3rd Aachen 1935 Archived...

15/19, ahead of Samuel Reshevsky (14), Ståhlberg (13½), Gligorić (12), Vasja Pirc (12), and Euwe (11½). He also won at Bled in 1950. Although not a full-time...

Held in Zagreb, SFR Yugoslavia, SR Croatia. The tournament was won by Vasja Pirc. First three players were tied for 1st, so they played champions play-off...

(Trifunović won). In 1948, he tied for 17-18th in Belgrade (Gligorić and Vasja Pirc won). In other tournaments, he won ahead of Mijo Udovčić at Zagreb 1948...

 Nicolas Rossolimo (France) 16 1954  Hans Bouwmeester (Netherlands)  Vasja Pirc (Yugoslavia) 17 1955  Borislav Milić (Yugoslavia) 18 1956  Gideon Ståhlberg (Sweden)...

tied for 4-5th at Novi Sad 1936 (the 2nd Yugoslav Chess Championship, Vasja Pirc won), and tied for 9-10th at Ljubljana 1938 (the 4th YUG-ch, Boris Kostić...

Yugoslavia, SR Serbia. The tournament was won by Svetozar Gligorić and Vasja Pirc. Portal: Chess "Yugoslav Championship 1948/49". www.chessgames.com. Retrieved...

Menchik finished in third place out of nine with a score of 5/8 behind only Vasja Pirc and Lajos Steiner, both of whom would be named inaugural International...

Petrič (born 1964) – swimmer Rok Petrovič (1966–1993) – alpine skier Vasja Pirc (1907–1980) – chess player Tadej Pogačar – cyclist Lucija Polavder (born...

Horowitz, Erik Lundin, Folke Ekström, Ossip Bernstein, C. H. O'D. Alexander, Vasja Pirc, Vladas Mikėnas, Alexander Tolush, Jan Foltys, Julio Bolbochán, Hermann...

1934, he took sixth in Maribor (Vasja Pirc and Lajos Steiner won). In 1935, he tied for 8-9th in Belgrade (Vasja Pirc and Borislav Kostić won). In 1938...

to Yugoslavia. He took 2nd at Zagreb 1934, took 9th at Maribor 1934 (Vasja Pirc and Lajos Steiner won), and took 2nd, behind Petar Trifunović, at Zagreb...

third Slovene to become a grandmaster, after Milan Vidmar (1950) and Vasja Pirc (1953). He won the Slovenian Chess Championship in 1959 and 1961 and shared...

Savielly Tartakower. In 1937, he tied for 4th place with Endre Steiner and Vasja Pirc, behind Tartakower, Ståhlberg, and Najdorf in the Jurata (4th POL-ch)...

he came first at the 4th Nova Gorica Open. In 2003, he won the 11th Vasja Pirc Memorial at Maribor. In 2004, Kožul reached the final sixteen at the FIDE...

(15th CSR-ch). In 1938, he tied for 10-12th in Łódź; the event was won by Vasja Pirc. In 1938, he took 11th in Ljubljana (Laibach); the event was won by Borislav...

he tied for 11-12th in Novi Sad (the 2nd Yugoslav Chess Championship, Vasja Pirc won). In February–March 1937, he won in Belgrade, ahead of Matveef, Petar...

polytechnicians Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922–1975), Italian film director and poet Vasja Pirc (1907–1980), chess grandmaster Nikolaj Pirnat (1903–1948), sculptor, painter...

he ended in the middle of the table, but won Grandmaster Vasja Pirc in his chess opening - Pirc Defence. Witkowski represented his country in nineteen matches...

League of Handball Champions] (in Slovenian). MMC RTV Slovenia. 2008. Vasja Pirc (4 December 2005). "Politično imenovanje ali razrešitev" [A Political...

1903–1939) Albert Pinkus (US, 1903–1984) József Pintér (Hungary, born 1953) Vasja Pirc (Slovenia, 1907–1980) Rudolf Pitschak (Czechoslovakia, US, 1902–1988)...

Yugoslavia, SR Slovenia. The tournament was won by Svetozar Gligorić. Vasja Pirc withdrew after eight rounds. Portal: Chess "Yugoslav Championship 1950"...

Trebitsch-Turnier; Henryk Friedman won). In 1938, he tied for 6-7th in Bad Harzburg (Vasja Pirc won). In June 1939, he tied for 2nd-4th in Bad Elster (Erich Eliskases...

named after François-André Danican Philidor Pirc Defence – 1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 – named after Vasja Pirc Polerio Defense of the King's Gambit – 1.e4...