Great Players of the Past: Svetozar Gligorić

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Check out Ben's Chessable courses here! www.chessable.com/author/BenF... GM Ben Finegold goes over various games from Serbian GM Svetozar Gligorić in the Great Players of the Past series. This lecture was recorded on Oct. 5, 2017 at CCSCATL in Roswell, Georgia.
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@Evilanious Жыл бұрын

Great lectures of the past.

@davidschneide5422 Жыл бұрын

I like watching past lectures for the first time again.

@SrinivashM29 Жыл бұрын

This game was so good, I was born the next year 😂

@mikejschin Жыл бұрын

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.

@MrManumona Жыл бұрын

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.

@spartanthe300ththermopylae4 Жыл бұрын

@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.

@bine35 Жыл бұрын

I love these historical series

@vigilante8374 Жыл бұрын

Historical in more ways than one (CCSCATL, great chess centers of the past.)

@danielgautreau161 Жыл бұрын

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.

@FloydMr0709 Жыл бұрын

Greeting from Montenegro ! Good lesson ! Gliga is a legend !

@spartanthe300ththermopylae4 Жыл бұрын

@FloydMr0709 indeed! Greetings from Serbia!

@FloydMr0709 Жыл бұрын

@@spartanthe300ththermopylae4 Gliga is a hero, we in Montenegro had Bozidar Bonja Ivanovic 🥰

@SpartanThe300th Жыл бұрын

@@FloydMr0709 Ivanovic, of course! 👏😊 There were many really strong players that are not that well known nowadays, unfortunately. Another example is Ljubomir Ljubojevic.

@FloydMr0709 Жыл бұрын

@@SpartanThe300th You are absolutely correct. Yugoslavia was always a chess force 🥰

@vmab1985 Жыл бұрын

Just finished watching the first game. What a treat to see a game like that!

@danielgautreau161 Жыл бұрын

Incredible. 29 moves, no captures, and then W resigns.

@homerp.hendelbergenheinzel6649 18 күн бұрын

it also blew my mind. what a game.

@MrWhiteyPt Жыл бұрын

Ben, you totally cracked me up starting with the c4 explosive gag, and I was indeed laughing at home when you point it out!

@chrisSo91 Жыл бұрын

40:13 "gligoric was black and he's pounding the guys. That's pretty good"

@abchernin Жыл бұрын

Great NSFW of the past

@jeffreyfisher3115 Жыл бұрын

From the “Chessplayers Bobby Fischer Tried to Sue” video series

@LiaEA Жыл бұрын

What a fresh cut, kind of distracting from the lecture tbh. The fade, the line up 👌🧑‍🍳.

@giovannicorno1247 10 ай бұрын

Beatiful!

@kdub1242 Жыл бұрын

Svetozar backwards is Razotevs, which is a remarkable coincidence.

@spartanthe300ththermopylae4 Жыл бұрын

@K Dub his name Svetozar means something like "Holy Glow" (like Halo) in Serbian.

@Tube_Chaser Жыл бұрын

It's also two letters away from "Svenezar", which is what Ben kept calling him at the start of the video!

@JohnSmith-ey9xs Жыл бұрын

@12:50, what move would you recommend for White instead of 16. Bd2 (?)

@FlowerBoyWorld 3 ай бұрын

hey its like hans' last gm-norm game

@austin4768 Жыл бұрын

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...

@lv20swds Жыл бұрын

He has one on Capa. Just search for great players of the past capablanca.

@austin4768 Жыл бұрын

@@lv20swds Thanks! I didn’t see it at first because it’s not on this channel

@Eidenhoek Жыл бұрын

If he's done one on Karpov, he's fine with positional players.

@spartanthe300ththermopylae4 Жыл бұрын

@Eidenhoek he has one on Karpov too.

@yosefcohen483 Жыл бұрын

I'll try one: Famous last words: "Goodbye, cruel world".

@MrCupidd Жыл бұрын

Always sac the exchange

@tomswiftyphilo2504 Жыл бұрын

great players of the past of the past

@MurrayHerts Жыл бұрын

Great player, never heard of em

@spartanthe300ththermopylae4 Жыл бұрын

@Murray his legacy is legendary in Serbia and former Yugoslavia. He was easily among the top 5 - 10 players in the world at his peak, and he lived in the era of Botvinnik, Smyslov, Petrosian, Fischer, etc, to name but a few. Another great Serbian player of the past which is not well known is Ljubomir Ljubojevic - a very energetic, attacking player. If you look up his games, I'm sure you won't be disappointed.

@MurrayHerts Жыл бұрын

@@spartanthe300ththermopylae4 I was doing a meme, but I appreciate your detailed reply.

@SpartanThe300th Жыл бұрын

@@MurrayHerts my apologies, I failed to grasp it.

@MrCupidd Жыл бұрын

I have a prime it’s called Amazon