Svetozar Gligorić, the greatest chess player in Serbian and Yugoslav history, died today at the age of 89, having lived an amazing life: resistance fighter, journalist, author, polyglot, amateur musician and songwriter, opening theorist, World Championship Candidate, and one of Bobby Fischer's lifelong friends. Story at
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Of the participants in the great
Zurich 1953.Candidates tournament, we still have Averbakh and Taimanov.
the sad days for living chess players local and internationally roll on. on an up note i have svetozar's book. . i play against the pieces . .wonderful little tome . . .i may take up the rio de janeiro variation of the king's indian defence in his honor. rip mr gligoric your work here is done. your games were and are a great artistic monument to the game
ReplyDeletecorrection. . not the rio de janiero variation but the mar del plata variation. ..thank god i check my facts. .can you tell i don't play the king's indian? lol
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