Borislav Ivkov

Borislav Ivkov, 2008
Association	Serbia
Born	November 12, 1933 Belgrade , Kingdom of Yugoslavia
title	International Master (1954) Grand Master (1955)
Current  Elo rating	2402 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2560 (July 1971)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Borislav (Boris) Ivkov ( Serbian - Cyrillic Борислав Ивков ; born November 12, 1933 in Belgrade ) is a Serbian chess master and was one of the leading chess players in Yugoslavia for decades .

Life

Borislav Ivkov, 1963

Already at the age of 14 he managed to become Yugoslavia's youth champion, two years later he won the national championship title by tied 4-7. Place at the Yugoslav Championship. In 1951, at the age of 18, he won the first U20 World Junior Championship , which was organized by FIDE . In the years 1964–1979 he qualified five times for the interzonal tournament and also reached the candidates' tournament once, in Amsterdam 1964 (7th place) . He lost in the quarterfinals ( Bled 1965) against the Dane Bent Larsen with 2.5: 5.5 (+1 = 3 −4). Ivkov won the Yugoslav championship in 1958 (shared with Svetozar Gligorić ), 1963 (shared with Mijo Udovčić ) and 1972.

Ivkov represented Yugoslavia at twelve Chess Olympiads from 1956 to 1980 and won six silver medals and four bronze medals with his team. As a single player, he won at the Olympics in 1962 of board 4 and 1970 on board 2 gold for the highest individual score in each of his board, he also won one each individual silver and bronze. Between 1957 and 1980 he took part in six European team championships , he won the individual ranking on the second board in Bath in 1973 and came second with the team in Hamburg in 1965 and in 1973 in each case. In 1970 he was placed on the tenth board of the world selection in the match between the USSR and the rest of the world and was defeated by Paul Keres 1: 3.

In the German Federal Chess League Ivkov played in the 1983/84 season at Königsspringer Frankfurt , who, however, withdrew his team after five of 15 rounds. In 1990 he played in the Spanish team championship on the top board of CA Endesa Ponferrada , with Partizan Belgrade he took part in the European Club Cup in 1976 and 1986 .

Ivkov achieved his best tournament result in Zagreb in 1965 , when he shared first place with Wolfgang Uhlmann and left reigning world champion Tigran Petrosjan behind. Ivkov won the championship of Yugoslavia five times. In 2006 he became European Senior Champion in Davos.

Due to his international success, he received the title of International Master from FIDE in 1954 and the title of Grand Master in 1955 .

Following the December 2013 Poděbrady discharged competition Snowdrops vs. Old Hands Ivkov has not played an Elo-rated game and is therefore listed as inactive at FIDE. Before the Elo rating was introduced, his best historical rating was 2715, which he achieved in October 1956.

Game example

Fischer – Ivkov

	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

End position after 52 ... a2

In the following game Ivkov defeated the eventual world champion Bobby Fischer with the black pieces at the 1959 tournament in Santiago .

Fischer – Ivkov 0-1

Santiago, April 22, 1959

French Defense ( Winawer Variation ), C16

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 Ne7 5. a3 Bxc3 + 6. bxc3 b6 7. Qg4 Ng6 8. Bg5 Qd7 9. h4 h6 10. Bd2 h5 11. Qf3 Qa4 12. Bd3 Ba6 13. g4 hxg4 14. Qxg4 Bxd3 15. cxd3 Nc6 16. Qg5 Sce7 17. h5 Nf5 18. Ne2 Nge7 19. Ng3 0–0–0 20. Qg4 Rdf8 21. Rh3 Kb8 22. Bg5 Qc2 23. Rc1 Qb2 24. a4 Qa3 25. Qd1 Nxg3 26. fxg3 Nc6 27.h6 gxh6 28. Bf6 Thg8 29. Kf2 Rg6 30. Qc2 Rfg8 31. Rb1 Qf8 32. a5 Nxa5 33. Qa4 Ka8 34. Rb5 De8 35. c4 Nc6 36. Q1 dxc4 37. dxc4 Qd7 38. c5 Qxd4 + 39. Qxd4 Nxd4 40. Rb4 Nf5 41. c6 Rg4 42. Rxg4 Rxg4 43. Rh1 a5 44. Rg1 a4 45. Rd1 Rd4 46. Rg1 Rd2 + 47. Kf3 Rd3 + 48. Kf4 Rc1 Rxg3 50. Kg4 a3 51. Ra1 b5 52. Rb1 a2 0: 1

Web links

Commons : Borislav Ivkov  - collection of pictures

• Replayable chess games by Borislav Ivkov on chessgames.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of Yugoslav masters ( Memento from July 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (Italian)
2. ↑ Borislav Ivkov's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
3. ↑ Borislav Ivkov's results at the European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
4. ↑ Borislav Ivkov's results at Spanish team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
5. ↑ Borislav Ivkov's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
6. ↑ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 74.
7. ↑ Chessmetrics Player Profile April 23, 2006 (English)