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Svetozar Gligorić

1923 - 2012

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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 won the championship of Yugoslavia a record 11 times, and is considered the best player ever from Serbia and Yugoslavia. In 1958, he received the Golden Badge award for the best athlete of Yugoslavia. During the 1950s and 1960s, Gligorić was one of the top players in the world reaching the Candidates Tournament multiple times. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Svetozar Gligorić is the 66th most popular chess player (down from 42nd in 2019), the 135th most popular biography from Serbia (down from 116th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Serbian Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Svetozar Gligorić ranks 66 out of 461. Before him are Pedro Damiano, Salo Flohr, Mark Taimanov, Legall de Kermeur, Joseph Henry Blackburne, and Milan Vidmar. After him are Alessandro Salvio, Isidor Gunsberg, Magnus Carlsen, Michael Adams, Isaac Boleslavsky, and Lionel Kieseritzky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Svetozar Gligorić ranks 142. Before him are Uri Avnery, Erroll Garner, Dimitrios Ioannidis, Bob Dole, Bert Kaempfert, and Hjalmar Andersen. After him are Achille Silvestrini, Estelle Getty, Inge Morath, Lindsay Anderson, Onofre Marimón, and Cheikh Anta Diop. Among people deceased in 2012, Svetozar Gligorić ranks 134. Before him are Sally Ride, Włodzimierz Smolarek, Ignatius Moses I Daoud, Henry Hill, Lefter Küçükandonyadis, and Al Freeman Jr.. After him are Thomas Szasz, Besse Cooper, Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, Iajuddin Ahmed, David Kelly, and Andy Williams.

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In Serbia

Among people born in Serbia, Svetozar Gligorić ranks 135 out of 661. Before him are Georgios Sinas (1783), Borisav Jović (1928), Vasko Popa (1922), Jovan Divjak (1937), Nemanja Vidić (1981), and Vlastimir (805). After him are Vetranio (300), Šaban Bajramović (1936), Milan Obrenović II, Prince of Serbia (1819), Dragan Nikolić (1943), Đuro Daničić (1825), and Stevan Mokranjac (1856).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Serbia

Among chess players born in Serbia, Svetozar Gligorić ranks 2. Before him are Borislav Ivkov (1933). After him are Ljubomir Ljubojević (1950), Peter Leko (1979), Boris Kostić (1887), Boško Abramović (1951), Milunka Lazarević (1932), Aleksandar Matanović (1930), and Andrija Fuderer (1931).

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