Great Players of the Past: Svetozar Gligorić
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Published 2023-05-12
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All Comments (21)
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Great lectures of the past.
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I had the pleasure of meeting Gligorić in 1972 and can attest that he was not only a great chess player, but a fine gentleman as well. Four of us -- Gligo, his friend Milan Vukcević (who was a FIDE master and a GM of chess problem composition), a local USCF master, and myself -- went to dinner. Gligorić had a fine sense of humor and he was gracious enough to make me feel like part of the group, even though I was a lowly Class B player.
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This game was so good, I was born the next year 😂
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GM Finegold is my all-time favorite chess commentator, by far, but I would like to make a little correction, to call "an unknown player" when talking about Antonio Medina Garcia is sort of a misunderstanding. IM Medina was 7 times Spanish Champion, in his long carrer he beat Alekhine, Euwe, Pomar( 7 or 8 times) Denker(twice) Szabo,O'Kelly(twice)Quinteros,Lombardy,Bisguier,Pfleger, Matulovic,Bent Larsen (in Larsen best overall year:1967, although Larsen was completely winning and missed a mate) Donner,Kurajica,Pal Benko(twice) and dozens of many other well known players (Matanovic,Ciocaltea,Julio Kaplan,Bednarsky,Hecht,etc.etc.) . He might be a far lesser player comparing him with Gligoric, but certainly not unknown! And last but not least, 16.Bd2 is not an error, in fact White is still better and there are several strong players's games with that move (including Korchnoi-Reshevsky 1-0) the errors came later.
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@GMBenjaminFinegold as a point of interest: not only was Gligoric a great player of KID with black, he is the "inventor" of, perhaps the most frequently played line of it, the Mar del Plata variation.
It really should be named after him; but, instead, it's named after the city where he first played it. -
On Kingscrusher he calls an enemy pawn in front of your king an umbrella pawn (as in the Petrosian game) when your king can shelter behind it.
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I love these historical series
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Greeting from Montenegro ! Good lesson ! Gliga is a legend !
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Just finished watching the first game. What a treat to see a game like that!
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Ben, you totally cracked me up starting with the c4 explosive gag, and I was indeed laughing at home when you point it out!
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From the “Chessplayers Bobby Fischer Tried to Sue” video series
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40:13 "gligoric was black and he's pounding the guys. That's pretty good"
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What a fresh cut, kind of distracting from the lecture tbh. The fade, the line up 👌🧑🍳.
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Beatiful!
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@12:50, what move would you recommend for White instead of 16. Bd2 (?)
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Svetozar backwards is Razotevs, which is a remarkable coincidence.
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Love this series! Would really like to see one on Capa, but I know he's more positional so maybe you think we'll fall asleep...
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hey its like hans' last gm-norm game
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I'll try one: Famous last words: "Goodbye, cruel world".
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great players of the past of the past
