Gligoric Has Died

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.


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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...

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.

I was just curious to see if Gligoric had any more miniatures under his belt. This nice little game came up in a search.

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.

Originally posted by Paul Leggett
Really? A great GM passes away, and your contribution to the thread is this? 😞

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!

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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.

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.

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