Petar Trifunovic
Number of games in database: 420
Years covered: 1935 to 1966
Overall record: +102 -53 =265 (55.8%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:  Queen's Pawn Game (17)      A46 D02 A41 E00  Orthodox Defense (16)      D58 D61 D50 D56 D69  Semi-Slav (13)      D46 D49 D43 D48 D44  Ruy Lopez (13)      C97 C85 C64 C91 C84  Ruy Lopez, Closed (11)      C97 C85 C91 C84 C87  Reti System (11)      A04	With the Black pieces:  Sicilian (29)      B45 B24 B74 B36 B32  Ruy Lopez (23)      C82 C67 C60 C77 C80  Petrov (16)      C43 C42  Semi-Slav (14)      D43 D48 D45 D49 D44  Caro-Kann (12)      B14 B17 B13 B10 B15  Nimzo Indian (11)      E34 E44 E27 E41 E33

NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   P Trifunovic vs M Aaron, 1962 1-0
   Tal vs P Trifunovic, 1963 0-1
   Botvinnik vs P Trifunovic, 1947 1/2-1/2
   Najdorf vs P Trifunovic, 1949 1/2-1/2

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PETAR TRIFUNOVIC (born Aug-31-1910, died Dec-08-1980) Croatia [what is this?] Petar Trifunovic was born on the 31st of August 1910 in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Awarded the IM title in 1950 and the GM title in 1953 he was Yugoslav Champion in 1945, 1946, 1947 (jointly), 1952 and 1961. His best tournament results include 3rd at Belgrade 1954, 1st at Prague 1961 and 1st at Beverwijk 1962. He also drew a match (+1, =10, -1) with Miguel Najdorf in 1949. He passed away in Belgrade in 1980.

page 1 of 17; games 1-25 of 420  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. M Romi vs P Trifunovic   0-1 37 1935 Olympiad B27 Sicilian 2. P Trifunovic vs E R Lundin   1-0 53 1935 Olympiad A16 English 3. I Solin vs P Trifunovic   0-1 19 1935 olm, FIN-YUG A04 Reti Opening 4. I A Horowitz vs P Trifunovic   1-0 50 1935 Olympiad A90 Dutch 5. K Treybal vs P Trifunovic   ½-½ 31 1935 Warsaw ol (Men) C50 Giuoco Piano 6. P Trifunovic vs H E Atkins   1-0 34 1935 Olympiad D51 Queen's Gambit Declined 7. P Trifunovic vs Najdorf   1-0 55 1935 Warsaw B24 Sicilian, Closed 8. P Trifunovic vs I Vistaneckis   1-0 51 1935 Olympiad A27 English, Three Knights System 9. P Trifunovic vs Najdorf 0-1 40 1936 Muenchen-T ;HCL 38 E33 Nimzo-Indian, Classical 10. P Trifunovic vs F Apsenieks   1-0 23 1937 7th olm final C40 King's Knight Opening 11. P Trifunovic vs Keres 0-1 54 1937 Prag E11 Bogo-Indian Defense 12. S Landau vs P Trifunovic   1-0 53 1937 7th olm final E40 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3 13. Graf-Stevenson vs P Trifunovic   0-1 32 1937 It, Prague (Czech Republic) E34 Nimzo-Indian, Classical, Noa Variation 14. P Trifunovic vs E Soerensen   1-0 44 1937 7th olm final C87 Ruy Lopez 15. Szabo vs P Trifunovic   1-0 37 1937 Stockholm ol ;HCL 44 E33 Nimzo-Indian, Classical 16. P Trifunovic vs Eliskases   1-0 65 1937 Prauge A47 Queen's Indian 17. P Trifunovic vs O Kavlie-Joergensen   1-0 20 1937 7th olm final B63 Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer Attack 18. Najdorf vs P Trifunovic   ½-½ 14 1937 7th olm final D30 Queen's Gambit Declined 19. J Dobias vs P Trifunovic   0-1 56 1937 Prague E34 Nimzo-Indian, Classical, Noa Variation 20. P Schmidt vs P Trifunovic   0-1 28 1937 7th olm final D17 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 21. P Trifunovic vs A Dunkelblum   1-0 26 1937 7th olm final B13 Caro-Kann, Exchange 22. Szabo vs P Trifunovic   ½-½ 51 1938 Ljubljana ;HCL 32 B15 Caro-Kann 23. Tartakower vs P Trifunovic   ½-½ 59 1938 Ljubljana (Slovenia) C28 Vienna Game 24. B Tot vs P Trifunovic   ½-½ 36 1938 Ljubljana B13 Caro-Kann, Exchange 25. P Trifunovic vs Gligoric   1-0 59 1945 JUG-ch Novi Sad ;HCL 45 C49 Four Knights  page 1 of 17; games 1-25 of 420

Sep-04-04    Eggman: Yugoslavian champion a few times back in the 1940s and early 1950s. He was known as a "drawing master". In the first interzonal tournament in 1948 he narrowly missed qualifying for the candidates. Nov-29-04    kostich in time: According to Cozens, The Lost Olympiad,Trifunovic had a reputation as a fierce attacking player in the thirties and was known as "Typhoonovic"...eventually he became known as a tenacious drwaing master and defensive expert. His most famous win was with Black in a Kings gambit against Tal at Havana 1962 Sep-26-05    lopium: You mean in 1963 I think. Sep-26-05    WTHarvey: Here are chess puzzles from some of Petar's games not shown here: http://www.wtharvey.com/trif.html Sep-26-05    chess man: Here's a game that he played against Fischer Fischer vs P Trifunovic, 1961 This game was included in Fischer's My 60 Memorable Games. Aug-31-06    BIDMONFA: Petar Trifunovic TRIFUNOVIC, Petar http://www.bidmonfa.com/trifunovic_... _ Nov-28-07    jenspetersson: Trifunovic played black in a B02-game against Udovcic in 1951 which is mentioned in ECO but I can't find it anywhere. Anybody out there with a SuperMegaDatabase and too little else to do in your lives?! May-08-08    Gypsy: Opocensky-Trifunovic click for larger view Black to play.

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