Svetozar Gligorić (Serbian Cyrillic: Светозар Глигорић; 2 February 1923 – 14 August 2012) was a Serbian and Yugoslav chess grandmaster and musician.[not...

mayor of Zagreb, Croatia Svetozár Hurban-Vajanský (1847–1916), Slovak poet, writer, literary critic and polititian Svetozar Gligorić (1923–2012), Serbian...

world champion Mikhail Tal and a half-point behind Yugoslavian GM Svetozar Gligorić. Although Fischer had ended his formal education at age 16, dropping...

Tigran Petrosian, Vasily Smyslov, the sixteen-year-old Bobby Fischer, Svetozar Gligorić, Friðrik Ólafsson, and Pal Benko. Tal's victory was attributed to...

to 7...a5. 7.Be3 is often known as the Gligoric System, after the World Championship Candidate Svetozar Gligorić, who has contributed much to King's Indian...

Türn 1950 9th Chess Olympiad Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia  Yugoslavia 45½ Svetozar Gligorić, Vasja Pirc, Petar Trifunović, Braslav Rabar, Milan Vidmar Jr., Stojan...

80. "Obituaries of note: Veronique Peck, Frank Godden, Ben Isaacs, Svetozar Gligoric". Washington Post. August 20, 2012. Retrieved September 2, 2012. "Gregory...

strange situations. On one occasion he offered a draw to Svetozar Gligorić, which Gligorić initially refused in surprise, but then changed his mind in...

Steinitz, Capablanca, Botvinnik, Petrosian, Tal, Spassky, Reshevsky, Svetozar Gligorić and Bent Larsen the greatest chess players in history. In 1974, popular...

The Zonal was held at Madrid, with Jan Hein Donner (Netherlands), Svetozar Gligorić (Yugoslavia), Arturo Pomar (Spain), and Lajos Portisch (Hungary) in...

and women's clubs have won the European Champions Cup five times. Svetozar Gligorić and Ljubomir Ljubojević were among the world's best players outside...

second/third place, on 13½/21, along with Arturo Pomar; the winner was Svetozar Gligorić, as all three advanced. Portisch was awarded the grandmaster title...

strongest Yugoslav player for much of the 1960s and 1970s behind Svetozar Gligorić and possibly Borislav Ivkov. He was primarily active before 1977,...

1953 at the 16th international tournament between Miguel Najdorf and Svetozar Gligorić. Portal page of chess in Mar del Plata: [1] Winners of the international...

(then FIDE Vice-President) and fellow Committee members Grandmaster Svetozar Gligorić and Professor Arpad Elo. The recommendations of the Committee report...

from the mid-1950s, he was the second-ranking Yugoslav player, after Svetozar Gligorić. He wrote an autobiography, My 60 Years in Chess. Ivkov earned his...

opponents' totals. Bent Larsen went on to win, with Korchnoi, Geller, Gligorić, and Portisch taking the next four places. There was a three-way tie for...

1972: Fischer vs. Spassky. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-671-21546-9. Gligorić, Svetozar (1972). Fischer vs. Spassky • The Chess Match of the Century. Simon...

Rubinstein) is White's most common method of combating the Nimzo-Indian. Svetozar Gligorić and Lajos Portisch made great contributions to the theory and practice...

seven-round event with the score 6–1. Second place was a four-way tie among Svetozar Gligorić (Yugoslavia), James Tarjan (USA), William Martz (USA), and Walter...

one's defeats. Earlier that year, Gligorić had beaten Najdorf with the same system. (Miguel Najdorf vs Svetozar Gligoric, Mar del Plata 1953). After the...

1947, Smyslov scored 6/9 to tie for 2nd–5th places; the winner was Svetozar Gligorić. In the Mikhail Chigorin Memorial tournament, Moscow 1947, Smyslov...

was a Croatian chess master. In 1939 he tied for 3rd-4th in Zagreb (Svetozar Gligorić won). In December 1941, he played at fourth board against dr Pazman...

kind..." (Gligorić 2002:8). Eric van Reem. "The birth of Fischer Random Chess". The Chess Variant Pages. Retrieved January 4, 2016. Gligorić (2002), p...

Tournament. Before the final round, the leaders were: (1st) Tal 13; (2nd-3rd) Gligoric, Petrosian 12½ (though Petrosian had the bye in the last round); (4th)...

considered refuted. In 1958 Bobby Fischer played 13...Rh7!, versus Svetozar Gligorić at the Portorož Interzonal, in a critical last-round game. According...

the opposition will be lost and the game drawn. Gligorić vs. Fischer, 1959 In the game Svetozar Gligorić–Bobby Fischer, 1959, Black can draw by keeping...

1942, he defeated Isaac Kashdan by (+6−2=3). In 1952, he defeated Svetozar Gligorić by (+2−1=7). In 1956, he defeated William Lombardy by (+1−0=5). In...

the Soviet Union. Arguably the biggest name in Yugoslav chess was Svetozar Gligorić, who played in three Candidates Tournaments between 1953 and 1968...

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