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    Svetozar Gligorić (Serbian Cyrillic: Светозар Глигорић; 2 February 1923 – 14 August 2012) was a Serbian and Yugoslav chess grandmaster and musician. He...
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    world champion Mikhail Tal and a half-point behind Yugoslavian GM Svetozar Gligorić. Although Fischer had ended his formal education at age 16, dropping...
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  • mayor of Zagreb, Croatia Svetozár Hurban-Vajanský (1847–1916), Slovak poet, writer, literary critic and polititian Svetozar Gligorić (1923–2012), Serbian...
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    Tigran Petrosian, Vasily Smyslov, the sixteen-year-old Bobby Fischer, Svetozar Gligorić, Friðrik Ólafsson, and Pal Benko. Tal's victory was attributed to...
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    The Zonal was held at Madrid, with Jan Hein Donner (Netherlands), Svetozar Gligorić (Yugoslavia), Arturo Pomar (Spain), and Lajos Portisch (Hungary) in...
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  • Steinitz, Capablanca, Botvinnik, Petrosian, Tal, Spassky, Reshevsky, Svetozar Gligorić and Bent Larsen the greatest chess players in history. In 1974, popular...
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    strange situations. On one occasion he offered a draw to Svetozar Gligorić, which Gligorić initially refused in surprise, but then changed his mind in...
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  • to 7...a5. 7.Be3 is often known as the Gligoric System, after the World Championship Candidate Svetozar Gligorić, who has contributed much to King's Indian...
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    Türn 1950 9th Chess Olympiad Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia  Yugoslavia 45½ Svetozar Gligorić, Vasja Pirc, Petar Trifunović, Braslav Rabar, Milan Vidmar Jr., Stojan...
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    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...
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