| Jul-09-04 |
| Ribeiro: Borislav Ivkov in great shape:
Mar del Plata (1955):
1-Ivkov - 11.5
2-Najdorf - 11
3-Gligoric - 10
4-Szabó - 9.5
5-Pachman - 9.5
6-Panno - 9
7-Pilnik - 8.5
8-Toran - 8
9-Wexler - 7.5
10-Rossetto - 7
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Buenos Aires (1955):
1-Ivkov - 13
2-Gligoric - 12.5
3-Pilnik - 12
4-Szabó - 11.5
5-Bisguier - 10
6-Pachman - 10
7-Rossetto - 10
8-Panno - 9.5
9-Donner - 9
10-Guimard - 8
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| Aug-28-04 |
| ruylopez900: unfortunately those are hardly recent results :P |
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Dec-26-04
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| percyblakeney: Ivkov must be a strong candidate for the "least kibitzed player page per games in the database"-award. Chessmetrics rank him in the top 100 for more than 30 years in a row, peaking at 15th place in the middle of the 1960's. |
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| Mar-12-05 |
| cade: <percyblakeney> Could be because his draw ratio is very high and he never made it into the top ten. |
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| Mar-12-05 |
| WMD: And maybe because this is the game he's best remembered for: G Garcia vs Ivkov, 1965 |
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| Sep-07-05 |
| Happypuppet: Today's Player of the Day appeared on the losing side in the tactical exercise. Has there ever been a "true" Player of the Day that appeared in both the game and puzzle? (win/lose doesn't matter) |
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| Sep-07-05 |
| WTHarvey: Here are some crucial positions from Ivkov's games: http://www.wtharvey.com/ivko.html |
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| Jan-25-06 |
| Whitehat1963: Great practitioner of the "grandmaster draw." See here how often: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... |
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| Jan-25-06 |
| EricCartman: I think, GM's who're drawing more then 60% of their games, should be banned for life, exept when these games are drawn on the 60th move or something. |
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| Jan-25-06 |
| Whitehat1963: Maybe not banned for life, but if their chess ratings declined twice as much for draws under 25 moves, we might get fewer "grandmaster draws." |
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Feb-05-06
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| whatthefat: <cade>
Chessmetrics has his best rank as 9th, in October 1956. |
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| May-07-06 |
| blingice: <EricCartman: I think, GM's who're drawing more then 60% of their games, should be banned for life, exept when these games are drawn on the 60th move or something.> What validity can this statement possibly contain? "Why did you ban that GM from playing chess?" "Oh, he was playing chess in a way that <EricCartman> doesn't like." Apparently playing 2400+ games doesn't earn you a picture on this website though. |
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| May-08-06 |
| ughaibu: Banned from what? or where? |
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| May-10-06 |
| BIDMONFA: Borislav Ivkov IVKOV, Borislav
http://www.bidmonfa.com/ivkov_boris...
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Jul-28-06
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| OhioChessFan: <Ivkov must be a strong candidate for the "least kibitzed player page per games in the database"-award.> <PercyBlakeney> Every now and then I check out the statistics page. I just did so and saw over 2400 games for Ivkov so I decided to check him out. And I found a handful of kibitzes. That just goes to show you something or another. |
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Aug-13-06
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| diagonal: Congratulations! 55 yers after being (the first) World Junior Champion in 1951, Borislav Ivkov is now European Senior Champion 2006. He won the 6th Individual European Senior Championship solely with 8/9 points (only one loss against favourite Korchnoi, who lost twice) and one full point (!) or more ahead of the rest (Zseitlin, Jansa, Khanukov, Korchnoi, Cebalo, Chernikov, Uhlmann, Hecht, etc.; 121 participants, swiss system). |
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Nov-05-06
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| Open Defence: too bad Bidmonfa didn't have a younger photo of Ivkov.. "Ivkov is an extremely handsome and imposing gentleman and the adulation of his fans and that of the ladies may have contributed to his loss of form." - The Batsford Chess Encylopaedia by Nathan Divinsky In Bidmona's pic he looks a bit like Alan Alda... |
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Nov-05-06
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| Karpova: http://chess.alfabank.ru/en/belgrad...
a picture of the younger Borislav Ivkov (1970), <Open Defence> |
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| Dec-14-06 |
| Maatalkko: <Open Defence> Interesting. That helps to explain Ivkov's long career of relative mediocrity. |
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| Dec-14-06 |
| Maatalkko: I should stress the word relative. In the mid-50's Ivkov looked like a WC contender. |
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| Jun-29-07 |
| PhilFeeley: It's interesting to see they've dragged GM Ivkov out of retirement (?) to play in the Canadian Open this year (http://cocycc.pbwiki.com/CORegister...). This promises to be a better tournament than the World Open! |
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Jan-16-08
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| brankat: GM Borislav Ivkov was the first World Junior Champion at the age of 18, in 1951, ahead of O.Panno and B.Larsen. Three times Yugoslav-Champion.
Participated in 5 Interzonal Tournaments.
Qualified for the Candidates Tournament of 1965.
Had a number of other outstanding tournament results, most notably: -- 1st in Mar del Plata, 1955
-- 1st in Buenos Aires, 1955
-- 2nd in Zagreb, 1954
-- 1st in the great Zagreb Tournament of 1965 ahead of Larsen, Portisch, Petrosian, Bronstein, Gligoric. -- 2nd in Havana 1965.
-- 2nd in Wijk aan Zee, 1971
-- Finally, in 2006, at the age of 73, European Senior Champion with the score 8/9. Surely he does deserve to have a photo here :-)
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May-06-08
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| timhortons: hes playing in 2008 canadian open, these man is a legend. |
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