Svetozar Gligorić (Serbian Cyrillic: Светозар Глигорић; 2 February 1923 – 14 August 2012) was a Serbian and Yugoslav chess grandmaster and musician. He...

mayor of Zagreb, Croatia Svetozár Hurban-Vajanský (1847–1916), Slovak poet, writer, literary critic and politician 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...

18½, followed by Tigran Petrosian, Vasily Smyslov, 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 Gligorić System, after the World Championship Candidate Svetozar Gligorić, who has contributed much to King's Indian...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

Chess Championship in 1972. Examples are: The French Defence, by Svetozar Gligorić (RHM Publishing 1974); The Benko Gambit, by Pal Benko, (RHM Publishing...

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...

In 1940, Miljanić adopted 17-year old Svetozar Gligorić, following the death of Gligorić's parents. Gligorić would later become chess grandmaster and...

undefeated, winning seven and drawing two to finish first with 8/9. Svetozar Gligorić was second with 6, Flohr third with 5.5, and Arthur Bisguier and John...

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)...

after 5.Nd5! "it's over, as detailed analysis reveals." Larry Evans, Svetozar Gligorić, Vlastimil Hort, Paul Keres, Bent Larsen, Tigran Petrosian, and Lajos...

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

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

lawyer and politician, Chief Minister of Maharashtra (b. 1945) 2012 – Svetozar Gligorić, Serbian chess player (b. 1923) 2012 – Phyllis Thaxter, American actress...

Novi Sad 1976 (2nd, behind Jan Smejkal, ahead of Vlastimil Hort and Svetozar Gligorić). He sustained the effort into the 1980s and early 1990s, adding further...

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...