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Serbian Chess Writers: Svetozar Gligori?, Milan Vukcevich, Dimitrije Bjelica, Aleksandar Matanovi?

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Description:Chapters: Svetozar Gligori?, Milan Vukcevich, Dimitrije Bjelica, Aleksandar Matanovi?. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Svetozar Gligori (Serbian Cyrillic: ) (born February 2, 1923) is a Serbian chess grandmaster. He won the championship of Yugoslavia a record twelve times, and is considered the best player ever from Serbia. During the 1950s and 1960s, he was one of the top ten players in the world, also among the world's most popular, owing to his globe-trotting tournament schedule and a particularly engaging personality that is reflected in the title of his autobiography, I Play Against Pieces (i.e., with no hostility to the opponent, or playing differently for "psychological" reasons against different players; playing the board not the man). Svetozar Gligori was born in Belgrade to a poor family. According to his recollections, his first exposure to chess was as a small child watching patrons play in a neighborhood bar. He began to play at the age of eleven, when taught by a boarder taken in by his mother (his father had died by this time). Lacking a chess set, he made one for himself by carving pieces from corks from wine bottles a story paralleling the formative years of his great contemporary, the Estonian grandmaster Paul Keres. Gligori was a good student during his youth, with both academic and athletic successes that famously led to him being invited to represent his school at a birthday celebration for Prince Peter, later to become King Peter II of Yugoslavia. He later recounted (to International Master David Levy, who chronicled his chess career in The Chess of Gligoric), his distress at attending this gala event wearing poor clothing resulting from his family's impoverished condition. His first tournament success came in 1938 when h...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=146084We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Serbian Chess Writers: Svetozar Gligori?, Milan Vukcevich, Dimitrije Bjelica, Aleksandar Matanovi?. To get started finding Serbian Chess Writers: Svetozar Gligori?, Milan Vukcevich, Dimitrije Bjelica, Aleksandar Matanovi?, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages
24
Format
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Publisher
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Release
2010
ISBN
1158529171

Serbian Chess Writers: Svetozar Gligori?, Milan Vukcevich, Dimitrije Bjelica, Aleksandar Matanovi?

Books LLC
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Description: Chapters: Svetozar Gligori?, Milan Vukcevich, Dimitrije Bjelica, Aleksandar Matanovi?. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Svetozar Gligori (Serbian Cyrillic: ) (born February 2, 1923) is a Serbian chess grandmaster. He won the championship of Yugoslavia a record twelve times, and is considered the best player ever from Serbia. During the 1950s and 1960s, he was one of the top ten players in the world, also among the world's most popular, owing to his globe-trotting tournament schedule and a particularly engaging personality that is reflected in the title of his autobiography, I Play Against Pieces (i.e., with no hostility to the opponent, or playing differently for "psychological" reasons against different players; playing the board not the man). Svetozar Gligori was born in Belgrade to a poor family. According to his recollections, his first exposure to chess was as a small child watching patrons play in a neighborhood bar. He began to play at the age of eleven, when taught by a boarder taken in by his mother (his father had died by this time). Lacking a chess set, he made one for himself by carving pieces from corks from wine bottles a story paralleling the formative years of his great contemporary, the Estonian grandmaster Paul Keres. Gligori was a good student during his youth, with both academic and athletic successes that famously led to him being invited to represent his school at a birthday celebration for Prince Peter, later to become King Peter II of Yugoslavia. He later recounted (to International Master David Levy, who chronicled his chess career in The Chess of Gligoric), his distress at attending this gala event wearing poor clothing resulting from his family's impoverished condition. His first tournament success came in 1938 when h...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=146084We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Serbian Chess Writers: Svetozar Gligori?, Milan Vukcevich, Dimitrije Bjelica, Aleksandar Matanovi?. To get started finding Serbian Chess Writers: Svetozar Gligori?, Milan Vukcevich, Dimitrije Bjelica, Aleksandar Matanovi?, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
24
Format
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Publisher
Books LLC
Release
2010
ISBN
1158529171

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