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May-23-11
 | | Penguincw: Wow. Aleksandar Matanovic is 81 years old. |
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| May-23-11 | | bronkenstein: Srećan rodjendan velemajstore , sve najlepše!
Or shall I say , happy birthday :) |
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| May-23-13 | | brankat: Wishing You a very happy Birthday Aleksandar! |
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| May-23-16 | | TheFocus: Happy birthday, Aleksander Matanovic. |
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| Jun-24-16 | | brankat: Last time I talked to GM Matanovic was in 1977. Hard to believe he's 86! But, then, I was 26, 65 now :-) |
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| Jan-07-17 | | wrap99: About the official beating him at chess. I have read a similar story where someone claimed to be a mathematician and the official, one himself, asked him to do a Taylor series expansion of a function. |
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| May-23-20 | | diagonal: The Serbian (Yugoslavian) grandmaster, famous founder and longtime editor-in-chief of the leading chess encyclopedia CHESS INFORMANT, esteemed author, journalist, and radio announcer, turns 90 today: Happy birthday, health and happiness. In 1955, five players got the grandmaster title: Boris Spassky, then the youngest gm of the world, Oscar Panno, and Miroslav Filip (all automatically by qualifying as a Candidate), as well as Borislav Ivkov and Aleksandar Matanovic. Aleksandar Matanovic is certainly best known as the chief editor of the legendary Chess Informant which was initiated in 1966 by him, Milivoje Molerovic, and Dragutin Sahovic, based also on previous work by Braslav Rabar who was an important co-inventor and designer of the classification systems for the Chess Informant publications. Garry Kasparov asserted: "We are all Children of Informant". Mr Matanovic is inextricably linked with the development of modern (post-war / pre-computer era) chess, compare the post from <myschkin>: A world language, "chess esperanto" for the game, understandable to everyone, on all continents and to all dialects. The code ECO, created by Matanovic, Molerovic, Rabar, Sahovic, and some others, is universal today. |
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| Aug-21-22 | | Natasha Romannoff: happy he is still with us |
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Jan-06-23
 | | OhioChessFan: Upon the death of Ivan Farago Matanovic became the oldest living Grandmaster. |
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Jan-07-23
 | | Fusilli: <OCF> Not really. Farago was 76, and there are several GMs older than that and younger than Matanovic. See my last post on my chessforum. |
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Jan-07-23
| | Fusilli: <OCF> Matanovic became the oldest living GM upon the death of Yuri Averbakh at 100 last year. |
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Jan-07-23
| | OhioChessFan: <Fusilli> thanks for the correction. |
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| May-23-23 | | SkySports: Happy birthday to Aleksandar Matanovic, the oldest living GM, who turns 93 today! |
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May-23-23
| | Fusilli: Five oldest living GMs, sorted by age:
1. Aleksandar Matanovic, 93 today 2. Juraj Nikolac, 91 3. Yair Kraidman, 90 4. Nikola Padevsky, 89 (turning 90 next Monday) 5. Klaus Darga, 89 |
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| Aug-10-23 | | Eastfrisian: Accoroding to Wikipedia he died on 9. August 2023 in Belgrade. R.I.P. |
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Aug-10-23
 | | alexmagnus: So, the new top 3 oldest grandmasters is Nikolac, Kraidman and Padevsky. |
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Aug-10-23
| | alexmagnus: Matanovic btw was the last living participant of the 1952 Interzonal. |
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| Aug-10-23 | | ndg2: "We are all children of the Chess Informant" - Garry Kasparov |
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| Aug-10-23 | | Damenlaeuferbauer: Rest in peace, Aleksandr Matanovic, inventor of Chess Informant and Encyclopedia of Chess Openings! |
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| Aug-10-23 | | Messiah: Rest in peace. His contribution to the opening theory is invaluable. |
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Aug-11-23
 | | 0ZeR0: Rest in peace, GM Aleksandar Matanovic... creator of the Informant and ECO as well as a fine player in his own right. |
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| Aug-12-23 | | SkySports: Commemorative articles on Chess.com and Fide.com, with some intersting insights: https://www.chess.com/news/view/ale... https://www.fide.com/news/2570 |
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| Aug-12-23 | | SkySports: Also, when a prominent GM dies we use to dedicate them a GOTD. I think Matanovic deserves it... |
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Aug-12-23
 | | An Englishman: Good Afternoon: Goodbye to the oldest GM, whose creation of Informator and ECO might have equalled the importance of many World Champions. His 1958 win v. Tal would make a fitting GOTD tribute. |
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Aug-17-23
 | | kingscrusher: RIP Matanovic
ECO codes are a fantastic enhancement of the world of chess to study openings to handle move orders and transpositions. It is much easier to study the Kings Indian with knowledge of the ECO Codes E60–E99 to handle all the different move orders as example. We all owe him a great deal for the systematic study of our game. |
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