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    Zoltán Ribli (born September 6, 1951 in Mohács) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster and International Arbiter (1995). He was twice a World Championship Candidate...
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    Interzonal tournaments were held. The top two finishers in each qualified. Zoltán Ribli won the Las Palmas Interzonal ahead of 61-year-old former World Champion...
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    in the World Chess Championship candidates matches, where he lost to Zoltán Ribli. He served as Bobby Fischer's second in the 1992 match against Boris...
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    Portisch, Levente Lengyel, István Bilek, Győző Forintos, István Csom, Zoltán Ribli  Yugoslavia 26 Svetozar Gligorić, Borislav Ivkov, Milan Matulović, Aleksandar...
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    their strongest players participate in that year's championship, as only Zoltán Ribli was missing. Going into the last round, Polgár needed only a draw to...
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    went on to beat Karpov to become world champion in 1985. He had beaten Zoltán Ribli 6½–4½ in the semifinal, but drew his quarter-final match against Robert...
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    Hungarian Chess Olympiad team member and future World Championship candidate Zoltán Ribli (8/11, second); the strong American player Kenneth Rogoff (7.5/11, third);...
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    At Reggio Emilia 1986, he tied for 2nd–5th places with 6/11 behind Zoltán Ribli. He swept Fernand Gobet 4–0 in a match at Fribourg 1987. He finished...
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    refereed several of Mikhail Botvinnik's world championship matches. Zoltán Ribli, was a World Championship Candidate twice and Hungarian Champion three...
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    along with the previously scheduled match between Vasily Smyslov and Zoltán Ribli. The Kasparov-Korchnoi match was put together on short notice by Raymond...
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  • Rey Ardid (Spain, 1903–1988) Alexander Riazantsev (Russia, born 1985) Zoltán Ribli (Hungary, born 1951) Pablo Ricardi (Argentina, born 1962) Isaac Rice...
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    players. Robert Hübner was invited, but declined to participate. As a result, Ribli had a free day during the last round. To show his displeasure, he refused...
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    Union) 51 1989  Viswanathan Anand (India)  Predrag Nikolić (Yugoslavia)  Zoltán Ribli (Hungary)  Gyula Sax (Hungary) 52 1990  John Nunn (United Kingdom) 53...
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  • Polgar, Judit Polgár, Zsófia Polgár, Péter Lékó, Lajos Portisch, and Zoltán Ribli. Average Elo: 2299 <=> Cat: 2 Played in January 1995, but related to...
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    Vasily Smyslov, Women-Veterans (1992), Aruba, rd 5 Vasily Smyslov vs Zoltan Ribli, October Revolution 60th Anniversary (1977), Leningrad URS, rd 15, Jul-16...
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    Vlastimil Hort, Lev Polugaevsky, Vitaly Tseshkovsky, Ljubomir Ljubojević, Zoltán Ribli et al.), thereby reaching a second successive Candidates matches stage...
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    Akopian (Armenia) 2600 =34 -1 =14 +52 =44 =32 =40 -25 =29 =35 =41 5 40  Zoltán Ribli (Hungary) 2610 -4 +50 =44 =21 =26 =30 =39 -42 =33 =38 =36 5 41  Eduardas...
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    the Candidates Tournament by three seeded players: Smyslov, Korchnoi, and Ribli (no. 2-4 from the previous tournament). The final spot went to Spassky,...
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  • Bukić Dragoljub Minić  Hungary Lajos Portisch László Szabó István Bilek Zoltán Ribli István Csom Győző Forintos András Adorján Gyula Sax Karoly Honfi János...
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    Tseshkovsky (Soviet Union) 2550 0 ½ 1 - ½ ½ 0 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 1 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 12 5  Zoltán Ribli (Hungary) 2475 ½ ½ ½ ½ - 1 1 1 ½ 0 ½ 0 1 1 ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 1 11½ 6  Ljubomir...
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    Anatoly Karpov Milan Las Palmas Ljubomir Ljubojević Manila Budapest Zoltán Ribli Lev Polugaevsky USSR Chess Championship Yerevan Tigran Petrosian 1976...
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    Adorján, whose better tie-break score in the main tournament put him ahead of Ribli, after the two drew a playoff in Budapest 3-3. The game between Gruenfeld...
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    Championship cycle; the semi-final match between Vasily Smyslov and Zoltán Ribli was also played at the same site. He organised the 1984 Russia (USSR)...
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    was jointly won by four players: Viswanathan Anand, Predrag Nikolić, Zoltán Ribli and Gyula Sax. "All-time Tournaments - Tata Steel Chess". history.tatasteelchess...
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  • SSR 2550 1 ½ 1½/2 5 Rafael Vaganian  Armenian SSR 2630 ½ ½ ½ 0 1½/4 5 Zoltán Ribli  Hungary 2610 ½ ½ ½ 1 2½/4 6 Alexander Beliavsky  Ukrainian SSR 2565...
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    her professional chess player career. Grosch is married to grandmaster Zoltán Ribli. Bartelski, Wojciech. "Women's Chess Olympiads :: Mária Grosch". OlimpBase...
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  • Wijk aan Zee tournament ended in a 4-way tie between Viswanathan Anand, Zoltán Ribli, Predrag Nikolić and Gyula Sax, each with 7½/13. In 1989, FIDE awarded...
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  • Ramachandran Ramesh and Aarthie Ramaswamy Igors Rausis and Olita Rause Zoltán Ribli and Maria Grosch Maxim Rodshtein and Tereza Olsarova Ian Rogers and Cathy...
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  • Vasily Smyslov Alexander Chernin Lev Polugaevsky  Hungary Lajos Portisch Zoltán Ribli Gyula Sax Jozsef Pinter András Adorján Ivan Farago István Csom Attila...
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    he finished second, after Zoltán Ribli, at Băile Herculane. At the 1982 Las Palmas Interzonal, he finished third, behind Ribli and former World Champion...
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