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28-588: Pomar may refer to: People [ edit ] Arturo Pomar (1931–2016), Spanish chess Grandmaster Júlio Pomar (born 1926), Portuguese painter Juan Bautista Pomar (1535–1590), historian and writer on pre-Columbian Aztec history Places [ edit ] Medina de Pomar , a municipality in Burgos, Castile and León, Spain Picó Pomar Residence , an 1840 Spanish Neoclassical building Pomar de Valdivia ,

56-442: A fair play award named after Gligorić. The Fair Play Svetozar Gligoric Trophy is awarded annually by a three member commission in recognition of sportsmanship, integrity and the promotion ethical behavior within chess. "The moment of death has the power to stress in a single move the achievement or the futility of a life." One of Gligorić's most famous games was this win against the former world champion Tigran Petrosian at

84-661: A stroke at 89 years of age in Belgrade . Gligorić was buried on 16 August 2012, at 13:30 in the Alley of the Greats at Belgrade's New Cemetery . Although he compiled a superb tournament record, it is perhaps as an openings theorist and commentator that Gligorić will be best remembered. He made enormous contributions to the theory and practice of the King's Indian Defence , Ruy Lopez and Nimzo-Indian Defence , among others; and, particularly with

112-584: A birthday celebration for Prince Peter, who later became King Peter II of Yugoslavia . He later recounted to International Master David Levy (who chronicled his chess career in The Chess of Gligoric ) his distress at attending this gala event wearing poor clothing stemming from his family's impoverished condition. His first tournament success came in 1938 when he won the Belgrade Chess Club championship; however, World War II interrupted his chess progress for

140-484: A commentator, Gligorić was able to take advantage of his fluency in a number of languages and his training as a journalist, to produce lucid, interesting game annotations. He was a regular columnist for Chess Review and Chess Life magazines for many years, his "Game of the Month" column often amounting to a complete tutorial in the opening used in the feature game as well as a set of comprehensive game annotations. He wrote

168-556: A historic result, the team gold medal. The Yugoslav team was usually second or third in the world during the 1950s. His list of first-place finishes in international chess competitions is one of the longest and includes such events as Mar del Plata 1950, Stockholm 1954, Belgrade 1964, Manila 1968, Lone Pine 1972 and 1979, etc. He was a regular competitor in the series of great tournaments held at Hastings , with wins (or ties for first) in 1951–52, 1956–57, 1959–60, 1960–61 and 1962–63. His five wins and shared wins at Hastings remains

196-629: A municipality in Palencia, Castile and León, Spain Others [ edit ] Bodegas Pomar, C.A. , a Venezuela wine maker El Pomar Foundation , Colorado, U.S. UD Pomar , a football team based in Pomar de Cinca, Aragón, Spain Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Pomar . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

224-503: A neighborhood bar. He began to play at the age of eleven, when taught by a boarder taken in by his mother (his father had died by this time). Lacking a chess set , he made one for himself by carving pieces from corks from wine bottles—a story paralleling the formative years of his contemporary, the renowned Estonian grandmaster Paul Keres . Gligorić was a good student during his youth, with both academic and athletic successes that famously led to him to be invited to represent his school at

252-557: A number of chess books in several languages. One of the most notable was Fischer vs. Spassky: The Chess Match of the Century , a detailed account of their epic struggle for the world title in Reykjavík in 1972. He also contributed regularly to the Chess Informant semi-annual (more recently, thrice-yearly) compilation of the world's most important chess games. In 2019, FIDE established

280-422: A particularly engaging personality, reflected in the title of his autobiography, I Play Against Pieces (i.e., without hostility toward the opponent, and not differently against different players for "psychological" reasons; playing "the board and not the man"). Gligorić was born in Belgrade to a poor family. According to his recollections, his first exposure to chess was as a small child watching patrons play in

308-529: A record for the event. His record in world championship qualifying events was mixed. He was a regular competitor in Zonal and Interzonal competitions with several successes, e.g. zonal wins in 1951, 1960 (joint), 1963, 1966, and 1969 (joint) and finishes at the Interzonals of 1952, 1958 and 1967 high enough to qualify him for the final Candidates events the following years. However, he was not as successful in any of

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336-542: A time. During the war, Gligorić was a member of a partisan unit. A chance encounter with a chess-playing partisan officer led to his removal from combat. Following World War II, Gligorić worked for several years as a journalist and organizer of chess tournaments. He continued to progress as a player and was awarded the International Master (IM) title in 1950 and the Grandmaster (GM) title in 1951, eventually making

364-523: The World Chess Championship . He was Yugoslav champion in 1947 (joint), 1948 (joint), 1949, 1950, 1956, 1957, 1958 (joint), 1959, 1960, 1962, 1965 and 1971. He represented his native Yugoslavia with great success in fifteen Chess Olympiads from 1950 to 1982 (thirteen times on first board ), playing 223 games (+88−26=109). In the first post-war Olympiad, on home soil at Dubrovnik 1950 , Gligoric played on first board and led Yugoslavia to

392-561: The endgame and reaching a theoretically won position. However, inexact play allowed Alekhine to draw in a game that lasted over 70 moves. Alekhine won the event and Pomar finished fifth. Pomar's precocity invited comparison with previous prodigies like Paul Morphy , José Raúl Capablanca and Sammy Reshevsky . In his home country, he became quite famous, appearing in radio interviews and on film., but as his career progressed, he never quite fulfilled his early promise. Pomar's best results in international competition probably occurred at

420-574: The Candidates events, with mediocre results in the 1953 and 1959 Candidates Tournaments and a match loss to Mikhail Tal in the 1968 Candidates match series. Gligorić had the following record against the world champions he played against: Max Euwe +2−0=5, Mikhail Botvinnik +2−2=6, Vasily Smyslov +6−8=28, Tigran Petrosian +8−11=19, Mikhail Tal +2−10=22, Boris Spassky +0−6=16, Bobby Fischer +4−6=8, Anatoly Karpov +0−4=6 and Garry Kasparov +0−3=0. On 14 August 2012, Svetozar Gligorić died from

448-712: The Enschede Zonal 1963 (Gligorić won); he took fourth at Málaga 1965 ( Antonio Medina won); shared first with Alberic O'Kelly de Galway and Klaus Darga at Palma de Mallorca 1965; took second, behind Mikhail Botvinnik , at Amsterdam 1966 (IBM tournament); tied for 10–12th at Beverwijk 1967 ( Boris Spassky won); took eighth at Palma de Mallorca 1968 ( Viktor Korchnoi won); took 13th at Palma de Mallorca ( Bent Larsen won); won at Málaga 1971, tied for 12–14th at Madrid 1973 ( Anatoly Karpov won). He won at Alicante 1975 and ceased playing in serious events around 1985. He played for Spain at twelve consecutive Chess Olympiads , and won

476-531: The King's Indian, translated his theoretical contributions into several spectacular victories with both colours (including the notable game below). Theoretically significant variations in the King's Indian and Ruy Lopez are named for him. His battles with Bobby Fischer in the King's Indian and Sicilian Defence (particularly the Najdorf Variation , a long-time Fischer specialty) often worked out in his favour. As

504-610: The Madrid Zonal of 1960, where he shared first place with Svetozar Gligorić , Jan Hein Donner and Lajos Portisch ; at Torremolinos 1961 (first with Gligoric); Malaga 1964 (first, ahead of Portisch); Palma de Mallorca 1966 (second, after Mikhail Tal , ahead of Portisch); and at Malaga 1971 (first). His success in 1960 qualified him for a place at the Stockholm Interzonal tournament of 1962, where he finished 11th= (Fischer won). This

532-723: The experience. In later life, he was many times a guest of honour, especially at the Chess Olympiad of Calvia, held in 2004 on his birth island. In 2016, FIDE recognized his contribution to chess history with a special prize, following a proposal of the ACP He died in Barcelona , on 26 May 2016, after a long illness. Pomar wrote several instructional books in Spanish. Svetozar Gligori%C4%87 Svetozar Gligorić ( Serbian Cyrillic : Светозар Глигорић ; 2 February 1923 – 14 August 2012)

560-538: The great "Tournament of Peace" held in Zagreb in 1970. It displays Gligorić's virtuosity on the Black side of the King's Indian and his willingness to play for a sacrificial attack against one of history's greatest defenders. Zagreb 1970 was another Gligorić tournament success, as he tied for second (with Petrosian and others) behind Fischer, at the start of the latter's 1970–71 run of tournament and match victories. Indeed, Gligorić

588-423: The individual bronze medal at Leipzig. Full results: Pomar suffered at least two nervous breakdowns while attending tournaments. At Marianske Lazne in 1965, he completed nine of his fifteen games to finish with a share of last place. At Dundee 1967, he withdrew with fewer than half of his games completed, and his score was cancelled. Although he made a good recovery, his later play and results were affected by

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616-418: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pomar&oldid=935426774 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Arturo Pomar Pomar

644-475: The transition to full-time chess professional. He continued active tournament play well into his sixties. In his eighties Gligorić turned to music even releasing an album in Belgrade consisting of 12 compositions mostly jazz, rap and blues. Gligorić was one of the most successful tournament players of the mid-20th century, with a number of tournament victories to his credit, but was less successful in competing for

672-1083: The war, he tied for fourth/fifth place at Madrid 1945 (Alekhine won); took fourth place at Gijón 1945 ( Antonio Rico won); and shared third place at Almería 1945 (F. López Núñez and Alekhine won). There followed many international appearances. His further results included sixth place at London 1946 ( Herman Steiner won) and victory in a short match against Jacques Mieses (1½–½, also held in London). He tied for 12–13th at Barcelona 1946 ( Miguel Najdorf won); tied for 15–16th at Mar del Plata 1949 ( Héctor Rossetto won); won at Santa Fe 1949; tied for second/third place, behind Paul Michel , at Rosario 1949; shared first at Paris 1949; tied for second/third at Gijón 1950; took 15th at Madrid 1951 ( Lodewijk Prins won); took 14th at Bad Pyrmont 1951 (zonal); took 2nd at Hollywood 1952; tied for first/second at New Orleans 1954 ( US Open ); won at Gijón 1955; tied for second/third at Madrid 1957; won at Santander 1958; shared first with Francisco José Pérez at Madrid 1959. Pomar finished in fifth place at

700-417: 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. In 1958, he was declared the best athlete of Yugoslavia . In the 1950s and 1960s, Gligorić was one of the top players in the world. He was also among the world's most popular players, owing to his globe-trotting tournament schedule and

728-404: Was as close as he got to mounting a challenge for the world title. He was awarded the International Master title in 1950 and became Spain's first Grandmaster in 1962. Pomar was Spanish champion seven times (1946, 1950, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1962, and 1966), and Sub-Champion four times (1951, 1956, 1964, and 1969), a record not surpassed until 2010, by Miguel Illescas . Close to the end of

756-660: Was born in Palma de Mallorca and was known in his youth as Arturito. Hailed as a chess prodigy , he was runner-up at the Championship of the Balearic Isles when he was 10 years old, and won the title the following year. World Champion Alexander Alekhine spent time in Spain and Portugal after World War II and took an interest in the young Pomar, even giving him a series of special chess lessons. A part of Alekhine's 1946 book ‘’Legado!’’

784-566: Was devoted to him. Pomar played his first international tournament at Madrid in October 1943. Narrowly avoiding last place, he defeated Friedrich Sämisch , who was of grandmaster strength. Then, at just 13 years of age, he was able to draw a game against his esteemed teacher at a tournament in Gijón (1944). The game was an exciting "back and forth" affair, with Pomar outplaying the World Champion in

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