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Svetozar Gligorić

1923 - 2012

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Svetozar Gligorić (Serbian Cyrillic: Светозар Глигорић; 2 February 1923 – 14 August 2012) was a Serbian and Yugoslav chess grandmaster and musician. He won the championship of Yugoslavia a record twelve times, and is considered the best player ever from Serbia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Svetozar Gligorić has received more than 134,333 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Svetozar Gligorić is the 43rd most popular chess player (up from 44th in 2019), the 98th most popular biography from Serbia (down from 91st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Serbian Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Svetozar Gligorić ranks 43 out of 374Before him are Efim Bogoljubov, Giovanni Leonardo Di Bona, László Szabó, Lyudmila Rudenko, Andor Lilienthal, and Legall de Kermeur. After him are Frank Marshall, Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais, Howard Staunton, Pedro Damiano, Lajos Portisch, and Salo Flohr.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Svetozar Gligorić ranks 105Before him are Wolfgang Sawallisch, Robert Maxwell, Belisario Betancur, Uziel Gal, Ernst Nolte, and Conrad Bain. After him are Wes Montgomery, Alicia de Larrocha, Uri Avnery, Richard Pipes, Dexter Gordon, and Irvin Kershner. Among people deceased in 2012, Svetozar Gligorić ranks 93Before him are Omar Suleiman, Warda Al-Jazairia, Sergio Pininfarina, Tonino Guerra, Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, and Carlo Maria Martini. After him are Vidal Sassoon, Maurice André, Daniel Inouye, Nora Ephron, Alfred Schmidt, and Manuel Fraga.

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In Serbia

Among people born in Serbia, Svetozar Gligorić ranks 98 out of 564Before him are Rajko Mitić (1922), Šaban Šaulić (1951), Nadežda Petrović (1873), Jovan Cvijić (1865), Velibor Vasović (1939), and Ivan Stephen of Bulgaria (1300). After him are Koča Popović (1908), Đorđe Balašević (1953), Stepa Stepanović (1856), Svetozar Marković (1846), Mutimir of Serbia (830), and Desanka Maksimović (1898).

Among CHESS PLAYERS In Serbia

Among chess players born in Serbia, Svetozar Gligorić ranks 2Before him are Borislav Ivkov (1933). After him are Boris Kostić (1887), Boško Abramović (1951), Ljubomir Ljubojević (1950), Aleksandar Matanović (1930), Andrija Fuderer (1931), and Peter Leko (1979).