Gligoric Has Died

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The funeral will take place on Friday at 13.30 in the Alley of the Greats at Belgrade’s New Cemetery.
In the Belgrade City Hall at 11.00 a memorial session will be held with the representatives of state and chess federation.

http://www.rts.rs/upload/storyBoxImageData/2012/08/15/10331870/Gligoric1.jpg

Here is the game in the last round of Candidate Toruament in 1959: he had beaten Smyslov in 19 moves.
Gligoric later described this game: I was planing to say good bye to chess; I was disappointed with results, Yugoslavian public expected from me only first place. But after that game, I deciede to go on...

EVENT Candidats Tournament
SITE Bled/Zagreb/Belgrade
DATE 1959.??.??
ROUND 26
WHITE Smyslov, Vassily
BLACK Gligoric, Svetozar
RESULT 0-1
WHITEELO
BLACKELO
ECO E61
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[Event "Candidats Tournament"]
[Site "Bled/Zagreb/Belgrade"]
[Date "1959.??.??"]
[Round "26"]
[White "Smyslov, Vassily"]
[Black "Gligoric, Svetozar"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo ""]
[BlackElo ""]
[ECO "E61"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.Bg5 c5 5.dxc5 Na6 6.g3 Nxc5 7.Bg2 d6 8.Rc1 O-O
9.b4 Ne6 10.Bd2 a5 11.a3 axb4 12.axb4 Nd4 13.Nh3 Be6 14.Nd5 Nxd5 15.cxd5 Bd7
16.Rc3 Ra2 17.Qb1 Qa8 18.Rc1 Bf5 0-1
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15 Aug '12 19:33
Gligoric had a romantic view on chess preparations. He believed that a grandmaster should find the bst move over board. He retold his talks with young Fischer during interzonal tournament in Portoroz 1958, and Candidate Tournament in Bled Ljubljana Zagreb Beograd 1959:: "Fischer was constantly asking me about opening variations, and was pretty disappointed when he realized, I do not know much of that; at the time I thought a grandmaster should invent almost everything oer board..."

is music taste was very modern. He loved moder American pop music (!!), among others also Madonna...

YouTube

On the link above you can see the promotion of his CD.
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15 Aug '12 20:011 edit
I was just curious to see if Gligoric had any more miniatures under his belt. This nice little game came up in a search.

EVENT YUG-ch 6th
SITE Ljubljana
DATE 1951.??.??
ROUND 4
WHITE Svetozar Gligoric
BLACK Borislav Kostic
RESULT 1-0
WHITEELO ?
BLACKELO ?
ECO A04
EVENTDATE ?
Invert Board PGN Headers Comments
[Event "YUG-ch 6th"]
[Site "Ljubljana"]
[Date "1951.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "4"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Svetozar Gligoric"]
[Black "Borislav Kostic"]
[ECO "A04"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "39"]

1.Nf3 f5 2.e4 {The Lisitsin Gambit ... White tries to make the game sharp immediately!} fxe4 {True Latvian Die Hards Play 2. ...e5 here.} 3.Ng5 Nf6 4.d3 e3 {Trying to keep it closed} 5.Bxe3 e5 6.d4 {White prefers it wide open.} e4 7.f3
exf3 8.Qxf3 d5 9.Bd3 Bg4 10.Qf2 Bd6 11.h3 Bh5 12.O-O {Black must be on the lookout for Ne6.} Qe7
13.Nc3 c6 14.Rae1 {White has the ideal position. Every piece is developed to an active square.} O-O 15.Bf4 {Attacking the queen and preparing to trade on d6 - Normally, it is a bad idea to trade pieces when ahead in development. This trade has a forced tactical sequence behind it, however.} Qd7 16.Bxd6 Qxd6 17.Nxh7 {! ... If 17. ... Nxh7 18.Bxh7+ removes the defender from f8.} Rf7
18.Nxf6+ Rxf6 19.Qh4 Rh6 20.Qxh5 {a beautiful finish ... If 20. ... Rxh5 21.Re8xf8 mates} 1-0
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16 Aug '12 00:41
Originally posted by homedepotov
Tal gave him problems. He was only +2=22-10 against him.

How many great or notable age 65+ GMs still survive?

Bisguier and Spassky and Korchnoi are all I can think of.
Is Portisch still alive?
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16 Aug '12 04:22
Originally posted by Paul Leggett
Really? A great GM passes away, and your contribution to the thread is this? 😞
Well, I do not know the guy. 😏
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16 Aug '12 05:31
Originally posted by paulbuchmanfromfics
Really? A great GM passes away, and your contribution to the thread is this? 😞

Oops ... Now, we're all doing it!

Just joking Paul ... and remember Don't Feed The Troll!
A thumbs up awarded for your reminder!
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16 Aug '12 12:09
The post that was quoted here has been removed
I'm currently reading a collection of Botwinnik games which claims that they were actually 2/6/2, one draw more. Then again, considering the general quality of the text, that may well be a typo.

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16 Aug '12 16:47
EVENT YUG-ch
SITE Novi Sad
DATE 1945.??.??
ROUND 18
WHITE Svetozar Gligoric
BLACK Miroslav Radojcic
RESULT 1-0
WHITEELO ?
BLACKELO ?
ECO E33
EVENTDATE ?
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[Event "YUG-ch"]
[Site "Novi Sad"]
[Date "1945.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "18"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Svetozar Gligoric"]
[Black "Miroslav Radojcic"]
[ECO "E33"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "51"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 Nc6 5.e3 e5 6.d5 Ne7 7.Bd2
Bxc3 8.Bxc3 d6 9.Bd3 Ng6 10.Ne2 a5 11.O-O O-O 12.Rae1 Ng4
13.h3 Nh6 14.f4 f5 15.e4 fxe4 16.Bxe4 Nf5 17.fxe5 Ngh4 18.e6
Ne3 19.Rxf8+ Kxf8 20.Qd3 Qg5 21.Nf4 Qxf4 22.Qxe3 Qxe3+ 23.Rxe3
c6 24.Bxh7 cxd5 25.cxd5 b5 26.g3 1-0
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16 Aug '12 18:51
Gligoric's contribution to the openings.

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessopening?eco=C69
1. Ruy Lopez exchange variation 5....f6 6. d4

2.
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 O-O 6.Be2 e5 7.Be3
King's Indian Defence 7. Be3

Maybe most important, he invented Mar Del Plata Variation in the game against Najdirf 1953.

EVENT Mar del Plata
SITE Mar del Plata
DATE 1953.??.??
ROUND 12
WHITE Najdorf, Miguel
BLACK Gligoric, Svetozar
RESULT 0-1
WHITEELO
BLACKELO
ECO E99
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[Event "Mar del Plata"]
[Site "Mar del Plata"]
[Date "1953.??.??"]
[Round "12"]
[White "Najdorf, Miguel"]
[Black "Gligoric, Svetozar"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo ""]
[BlackElo ""]
[ECO "E99"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 O-O 6.Be2 e5 7.O-O Nc6 8.d5 Ne7
9.Ne1 Nd7 10.Nd3 f5 11.f3 f4 12.Bd2 Nf6 13.b4 g5 14.c5 h5 15.Nf2 Ng6 16.Rc1 Rf7
17.cxd6 cxd6 18.a4 Bf8 19.a5 Rg7 20.h3 Nh8 21.Nb5 g4 22.fxg4 hxg4 23.hxg4 a6
24.Na3 Bd7 25.Nc4 Rc8 26.Nb6 Rxc1 27.Bxc1 Be8 28.Ba3 Nf7 29.Qc2 Nh6 30.g5 Rxg5
31.Rc1 Rg3 32.Bb2 Nfg4 33.Nxg4 Nxg4 34.Bxg4 Rxg4 35.Qf2 Bg6 36.Rc4 Qe7 37.Bc3 Qh7
38.Qe2 Rh4 39.Kf2 f3 40.Qe3 Rf4 41.gxf3 Qh2+ 42.Ke1 Qh1+ 43.Ke2 Bh5 44.Kd2 Rxf3
45.Qg5+ Bg7 46.Kc2 Rf2+ 47.Bd2 Qd1+ 48.Kc3 Qa1+ 0-1
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17 Aug '12 16:36
Just returned home from the funeral. Minister for sport (newly appointed fomen's Gm Alisa Maric, which was a sad coincidence) and Serbian Prime Minister (surrounded by bunch of body guards) showed at the end. (Also the president of Olympic Committee of Serbia - bsketball player Vlade Divac on his own.)
There were a few surviving players form Gliga's time, a hundred chess lovers.
Brass band played ... American jazz, it reminded on gospel funeral, though not too cheerful.
No priest, Gliga was agnostic.
It was said that Bulgarian mystic famous Vanga /"baba Vanga"/ predicited to Gligoric that he would live 104 year. He also made such claims several times.

EVENT Belgrade
SITE Belgrade
DATE 1962.??.??
ROUND 9
WHITE Maric, Rudolf
BLACK Gligoric, Svetozar
RESULT 0-1
WHITEELO
BLACKELO
ECO B97
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[Event "Belgrade"]
[Site "Belgrade"]
[Date "1962.??.??"]
[Round "9"]
[White "Maric, Rudolf"]
[Black "Gligoric, Svetozar"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo ""]
[BlackElo ""]
[ECO "B97"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bg5 e6 7.f4 Qb6 8.Qd2 Qxb2
9.Rb1 Qa3 10.Bxf6 gxf6 11.Be2 Nc6 12.Nxc6 bxc6 13.O-O Qa5 14.Kh1 Be7 15.f5 exf5
16.exf5 Bxf5 17.Bf3 O-O 18.Bxc6 Rac8 19.Bb7 Rxc3 20.Rxf5 Rb3 0-1
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17 Aug '12 23:19
The post that was quoted here has been removed
Well,excuse me! I see no reason to be snotty about this,a simple yes would have sufficed.
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EVENT	Candidats Tournament
SITE	Bled/Zagreb/Belgrade
DATE	1959.??.??
ROUND	26
WHITE	Smyslov, Vassily
BLACK	Gligoric, Svetozar
RESULT	0-1
WHITEELO
BLACKELO
ECO	E61

EVENT	YUG-ch 6th
SITE	Ljubljana
DATE	1951.??.??
ROUND	4
WHITE	Svetozar Gligoric
BLACK	Borislav Kostic
RESULT	1-0
WHITEELO	?
BLACKELO	?
ECO	A04
EVENTDATE	?

EVENT	YUG-ch
SITE	Novi Sad
DATE	1945.??.??
ROUND	18
WHITE	Svetozar Gligoric
BLACK	Miroslav Radojcic
RESULT	1-0
WHITEELO	?
BLACKELO	?
ECO	E33
EVENTDATE	?

EVENT	Mar del Plata
SITE	Mar del Plata
DATE	1953.??.??
ROUND	12
WHITE	Najdorf, Miguel
BLACK	Gligoric, Svetozar
RESULT	0-1
WHITEELO
BLACKELO
ECO	E99

EVENT	Belgrade
SITE	Belgrade
DATE	1962.??.??
ROUND	9
WHITE	Maric, Rudolf
BLACK	Gligoric, Svetozar
RESULT	0-1
WHITEELO
BLACKELO
ECO	B97

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