User:Fletch79/Mido Udovcic
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Full name | Mijo Udovčić |
Country | Yugoslavia |
Title | Grandmaster |
Peak rating | 2618 (January 1953) |
Mijo Udovčić (September 11, 1920 - September 8, 1984) was a Yugoslavian chess grandmaster. He also worked as a judge[1] in Zagreb.
Udovčić gained the title of
Chessmetrics gives his highest rating as 2618 in January 1953 [2], which places him 39th in the world at that time.
Notable team results
The Yugoslavian team won silver medals behind USSR at the 16th_Chess_Olympiad held in Tel Aviv, Israel in 1964. Udovčić played on the fifth board, scoring 5 points from 7 games.[3]
Udovčić also played for Yugoslavia in two European Team Championships, scoring 7/10 in Oberhausen in 1961 and 6/9 in Hamburg in 1965. Yugoslavia won silver medals behind USSR in both events. [4]
Notable individual results
- Yugoslav Championship 1952 (Belgrade): 3rd= (winner Petar Trifunović)
- Borislav Milic 11) [5]
- Vassily Smyslov, winner Mark Taimanov8)
- Yugoslav Championship 1961 (Zagreb): 2nd= (with Stojan Puc, winner Trifunović)
- Lasker Memorial, Berlin 1962: 2nd= 10.5/15 (with Leonid Stein, winner Evgeni_Vasiukov 11.5)[6]
- Yugoslav Championship 1963 (Zenica): 1st= 15/21 (with Ivkov) [7]
- Zagreb 1969: 2nd= (with Vlastimil Hort, winner Mato Damjanović)
Notable games
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Larsen, B–Udovčić Sarajevo 1960
Bird's Opening (ECO F03)
1.f4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.e3 g6 4.b4 Bg7 5.Bb2 O-O 6.Be2 Bg4 7.O-O Nbd7 8.Na3 c6 9.c4 e6 10.h3 Bxf3 11.Bxf3 Qe7 12.b5 Ne4 13.Bxg7 Kxg7 14.bxc6 bxc6 15.cxd5 cxd5 16.Nb5 Qb4 17.Rb1 Qxd2 18.Bxe4 Qxe3+ 19.Kh1 Qxe4 20.Nd6 Qe3 21.Rb7 Nf6 22.f5 Qe5 23.fxg6 hxg6 24.Qf3 Rad8 25.Nb5 a6 26.Na7 Rd7 27.Nc6 Qf5 28.Qe2 Rxb7 29.Rxf5 exf5 30.Qxa6 Rb1+ 31.Kh2 Re8 32.Qa7 f4 33.Ne7 Ng4+
Bent Larsen resigned as 34. hxg4 was forced, which would have been followed by 34. ... Rh8 checkmate
References
- ^ Bill Wall. "Chess and other Occupations". Retrieved 11 October 2009.
- ^ "Chessmetrics rating card". Retrieved 11 October 2009.
- ^ "Olympiad results rating card". Retrieved 11 October 2009.
- ^ "European Team Championships results". Retrieved 11 October 2009.
- ^ "Ljubljana crosstable" (in Slovenian). Retrieved 11 October 2009.
- ^ "Lasker Memorial results" (in German). Retrieved 11 October 2009.
- ^ "Yugoslav championship results" (in Italian). Retrieved 11 October 2009.