Predrag Nikolić

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Predrag Nikolić
SFR Yugoslavia
TitleGrandmaster (1983)
FIDE rating2535 (April 2024)
Peak rating2676 (October 2004)
Peak rankingNo. 6 (January 1988)

Predrag Nikolić (born 11 September 1960 in

Bosnian Serb chess grandmaster
.

Biography

He first competed for the

Grandmaster titles in 1980 and 1983 respectively. The GM title was earned from his 1982 performances in Sarajevo (third) and Sochi (second after Mikhail Tal
).

He was a winner at Sarajevo in 1983, at

Interzonal, narrowly failed to qualify for the Candidates Tournament (sharing fourth place behind Korchnoi, Ehlvest and Seirawan
).

In 1989, he won at

Wijk aan Zee (jointly with Anand, Ribli and Sax) and took first place at Portorož/Ljubljana (the Vidmar Memorial tournament). There followed the 1990 Interzonal in Manila, where once more he shared fourth place, but qualified this time for the 1991 Candidates tournament. During his 'final 16' encounter with Boris Gelfand, his uncles died. However, he was able to fight on and he was just edged out in a rapid play-off, having drawn the match 4-4. Later, he journeyed to São Paulo for a match with Henrique Mecking and secured victory by a score of 3.5-2.5. A tournament win in Bled
saw him complete an eventful year.

While playing the

Vassily Ivanchuk when they tied for first place at the European Individual Chess Championship, held in Antalya
, although he lost the play-off for the title.

Between 1980 and 2002, he was, with the exception of 1982, an ever-present member of the Yugoslav and then Bosnian Chess Olympiad teams, winning one medal of each colour - team silver, team bronze and individual gold. He also participated regularly at the European Team Chess Championship and in 1983, took team silver and individual gold medals.

He has played for many years in the Bundesliga for club side SG Aljechin Solingen. At the start of the 2006/7 season, he was their highest rated player and listed as number 2 behind Artur Yusupov. In 2007 he won the Bosnia and Herzegovina Chess Championship ahead of Borki Predojević.

In 2015 he won the World Senior Championship's over-50 (+50) section in Acqui Terme.[1]

Predrag Nikolić is now living in the Netherlands near Leiden, and in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Notable games

References

  1. ^ "The winners of 25th World Senior Chess Championship 2015". FIDE. 2015-11-23. Archived from the original on 2015-12-26. Retrieved 25 December 2015.

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