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Great players of all time: What Svetozar Gligoric's your opinion?

Grandmaster Gligoric presents his first album at age 88:
By Federico Marin Bellon, ABC

"Gligoric was one of the best players in the 50 and 60, which tested the twelve Yugoslavia that won championships. He also won 12 Olympic medals and 10 European for his country, whose first board held for three decades. Keep in mind that at the time the stranglehold of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia was the only country capable of facing the giant.

Gligoric in the press conference presentation of his album
Belgrade, February 22, 2011

(...) The disk Gligoric has now includes twelve original compositions, ranging from blues and jazz to ballads and rap, according to Efe news agency reported. He has also written the lyrics to ten songs, mostly in English, "so that the public can understand them outside Serbia." "The music intensifies emotions, becomes the sadness in a good mood is the beauty, joy, the most beautiful thing there is in culture, art," said Gligoric during the press conference presentation of his album, entitled " How I survived the twentieth century. "

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Gligoric

Gligoric's case is not common among music lovers chess. He began studying piano and harmony in the mid 90's, and big boy, and up since 2005, once exceeded 80.

The former chess champion said, however, that music was his "first love." Accompanied him from childhood and throughout his life, he said, has decided to devote himself to her in her old age. "

Read the full story of Federico Marin Bellon in:

http://www.abc.es/blogs/poker-ajedrez/public/post/un-gran-maestro-presenta-su-primer-disco-a-los-88-anos-8086.asp

Gligoric in his 85 birthday

Svetozar Biography: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svetozar_Gligoric

" Gligoric was very dangerous for the world champions of chess, but totals adverse outcomes against most of them, for example +2-2 = 5 Mikhail Botvinnik, Vassily Smyslov +5-7 = 21, Tigran Petrosian +7- 10 = 10, = 19 +2-11 Mikhail Tal, Boris Spassky +0-5 = 15 +4-6 = 6 Bobby Fischer, Anatoly Karpov +0-4 = 6 and Gary Kasparov -3. " (Wikipedia)

Interview:

Gligoric An excellent interview by Antonio Gude, published in the International Chess Magazine No. 95, August 1995, pp. 9-17.

Part 1 / 2 http://antoniogude.blogspot.com/2011/02/solo-ante-el-tablero-1.html
Part 2 / 2 http://antoniogude.blogspot.com / 2011/02/solo-ante-el-tablero-y-2.html

Gligoric An anecdote:

"The ability to isolate the exterior makes a talented player a true champion. In an interview, and Great Yugoslav chess Grandmaster Svetozar Gligoric told a significant story. After a game in England, Svetozar rose from the table and saw a familiar face sitting near him. I did not know who he was and just said 'good afternoon'. That person stood up and faced few friends left. Gligoric had forgotten the face of his wife. "

http://www.akasico.com/noticia/1959/Historia-ignorada/ajedrez-simbolos.html