Albin Planinc

Albin Planinc, 1973
Association	Yugoslavia
Born	April 18, 1944 Briše , Zagorje ob Savi municipality
Died	December 20, 2008 Ljubljana
title	International Master (1969) Grand Master (1971)
Best Elo rating	2545 (May 1974)

Albin Planinc (born April 18, 1944 in Briše , Zagorje ob Savi , † December 20, 2008 in Ljubljana ) was a Yugoslav chess player . After Slovenia's independence, he had his surname Planinc, which occurs in Slovenia and Croatia , changed to the clearly Slovenian name Planinec in the early 1990s .

Life

Albin Planinc won the national championship title in Novi Sad in 1965 . His victory at the Vidmar Memorial Tournament in Ljubljana in 1969, which he won ahead of Svetozar Gligorić , caused a sensation . For this success he was awarded the title of International Master . After his shared 2nd place in Skopje in 1971, he became Grandmaster . He took part in some Yugoslav national championships in the 1970s , but could not achieve any notable success there. With the Yugoslav national team he took part in the 1974 Chess Olympiad in Nice , where he finished second, as well as at the European Team Championships in 1970 in Kapfenberg and 1973 in Bath . In 1970 he reached second place with the Yugoslav team. His best result at tournaments abroad was the victory he shared with ex-world champion Tigran Petrosjan at the IBM tournament in Amsterdam in 1973. After 1979 he largely withdrew from tournament chess for health reasons ( depression ), and he played his last rated tournament in 1985. The last few years he spent his life in a psychiatric clinic in Ljubljana.

His last Elo rating was 2415, his highest rating of 2545 he reached in May 1974. Before the introduction of the Elo numbers, Planinc achieved its best historical Elo rating of 2628 in February 1971 .

Play style

Vaganian - Planinc
Hastings 1974/75

	a	b	c	d	e	f	G	H
8th									8th
7th									7th
6th									6th
5									5
4th									4th
3									3
2									2
1									1
	a	b	c	d	e	f	G	H

Final position after 22.… Qd6 – c7 +

Planinc had a spectacular style of attack and played very sharp opening variations . In good shape, the "Don Quixote of chess", as it was called in Yugoslav chess circles, could also be dangerous for world-class players. His game against Rafael Vaganian at the 1974 tournament in Hastings is a well-known example; the Austrian grandmaster Stefan Kindermann described it as a triumph of the imagination . Albin Planinc led the black stones:

1. d2 – d4 Ng8 – f6 2. c2 – c4 c7 – c5 3. Ng1 – f3 c5xd4 4. Nf3xd4 e7 – e6 5. Nb1 – c3 Bf8 – b4 6. Nd4 – b5 0–0 7. a2 – a3 Bb4xc3 + 8. Nb5xc3 d7 – d5 9. Bc1 – g5 h7 – h6 10. Bg5xf6 Qd8xf6 11. c4xd5 e6xd5 12. Qd1xd5 Rf8 – d8 13. Qd5 – f3 Qf6 – b6 14. Ra1 – d1 Td8xd1 + 15. Nc3xd1 Nb8 16. Qf3 – e3 Nc6 – d4 17. De3 – e8 + Kg8 – h7 18. e2 – e3 Nd4 – c2 + 19. Ke1 – d2 Bc8 – f5 20. De8xa8 Qb6 – d6 + 21. Kd2 – c1 Sc2 – a1 22. Qa8xb7 Qd6 – c7 + (see diagram). White gave up because 23. Qb7xc7 Na1 – b3 followed mate. 0: 1 This final position would be a rare form of dragonfly matt , although it is not performed directly in the corner of the board.

literature

• Petar Trifunović (Ed.): Yugoslav chess triumphs . Chess Informant, Belgrad 1976, pp. 43-44.
• Planinec, Albin . In: Enciklopedija Slovenije , Volume 8, 1994.
• Georg Mohr: The Artist from Ljubljana . In: New In Chess Magazine , 2/2009, pp. 96-100.

Web links

Commons : Albin Planinc  - Collection of Images

• Replayable chess games by Albin Planinc on chessgames.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Albin Planic's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
2. ↑ Albin Planics results at European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
3. ↑ Biography ( memento of July 28, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) on endgame.nl (English, accessed on January 23, 2009)
4. ↑ Elo history at olimpbase.org (English)
5. ↑ Albin Planinc's historical Elo numbers on chessmetrics.com (English)