Thursday, February 02, 2006

Happy Birthday Gliga!

Legendary Grandmaster Svetozar Gligoric is celebrating his 83rd birthday today. City of Novi Sad decided to organize few events in his honor.

Ex-World Champions Boris Spassky and Anatoly Karpov will play a simul against 50 top juniors of region Vojvodina. Boris Spassky will also give a public lecture on the best games of Svetozar Gligoric. Match Anatoly Karpov-Lajos Portisch is scheduled for tomorrow. I will try to post the games.


This is the game where Gligoric used nowadays most popular Kings Indian line for the first time. Although he invented this plan, the variant got the name of Mar del Plata.

Miguel Najdorf - Svetozar Gligoric
Mar del Plata 1953
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


And this is Gligoric playing at age of 80.

Svetozar Gligoric - Ivo Timmermans
33rd Rilton Cup, Stockholm 2003
1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 c6 3.c4 Nf6 4.Nc3 e6 5.e3 Nbd7 6.Bd3 dxc4 7.Bxc4 b5 8.Bd3 a6 9.e4 c5 10.d5 c4 11.Bc2 Qc7 12.O-O Bb7 13.dxe6 fxe6 14.Qe2 Bd6 15.Nd4 Nc5 16.f4 e5 17.Nf5 Rd8 18.Nxd6+ Qxd6 19.fxe5 Qxe5 20.Rf5 Qe7 21.e5 Nd5 22.Bg5 1-0


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