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Pirc was champion of Yugoslavia five times: 1935, 1936, 1937, 1951, and 1953. [2] He was awarded the International Master title in 1950, and the Grandmaster title in 1953. He was made an International Arbiter in 1973. [1] Pirc was born in Idrija in 1907, then a part of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. He died in Ljubljana in 1980.
The 1953 SFR Yugoslavia Chess Championship was the 9th edition of SFR Yugoslav Chess Championship.Held in Zagreb, SFR Yugoslavia, SR Croatia.The tournament was won by Vasja Pirc.
The first six from the 1953 SFR Yugoslavia Chess Championship had a direct right to participate: Vasja Pirc, Braslav Rabar, Andrija Fuderer, Borislav Milić, Dragoljub Janošević and Svetozar Gligorić, as well as members of the Olympic team: Petar Trifunović and Aleksandar Matanović.
A distinction is usually drawn between the Pirc and lines where Black delays the development of his knight to f6, or omits it altogether; this is known as the Modern or Robatsch Defence. The tenth edition of Modern Chess Openings (1965) grouped the Pirc and Robatsch together as the "Pirc–Robatsch Defense".
The 3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad was held by German Chess Federation (Grossdeutscher Schachbund) as a counterpart of the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin with reference to 1924 and 1928 events.
Bled 1931 chess tournament was a major chess tournament proposed by Milan Vidmar and held in 1931 in Bled and Ljubljana, Slovenia, then part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. [1] ...
[10] In September 1939, after the Olympiad, Frydman tied for 5th/6th in Buenos Aires ( Circulo , Najdorf and Keres won). He tied for 4th/5th in the Mar del Plata 1941 chess tournament ( Gideon Ståhlberg won), took 3rd in Buenos Aires (Bodas de Plata), won in Buenos Aires, and tied for 3rd/4th at Águas de São Pedro/São Paulo 1941 ( Erich ...
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