Ivan Nemet

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Ivan Nemet (born April 14, 1943 in Sombor , † December 16, 2007 in Basel ) was a Yugoslav - Swiss chess player .

Life

Ivan Nemet was born in 1943 in Sombor in Vojvodina in Yugoslavia (now Serbia ). As a junior he was Yugoslav champion. In 1976 he received the title of International Master , in 1978 he became a Grand Master . In 1979 he won the Yugoslav chess championship in Bjelovar. In the early eighties he then moved to Switzerland, first to Bern and later to Basel. In 1990 he won the Swiss chess championship in Arosa , Canton of Graubünden , followed by the title of federal champion in Basel in 2002.

Ivan Nemet died of a heart attack on December 16, 2007.

Nemet's last Elo rating was 2348, his highest rating of 2470 he reached in January 1979. Ivan Nemet was also an excellent chess teacher; his greatest success was the Junior World Championship of his protégé Ognjen Cvitan in 1981 in Mexico City .

National team

Nemet took part with the Yugoslav national team in the 1980 European team championship in Skara , and with the Swiss national team in the 1998 Chess Olympiad in Elista .

Clubs

In Switzerland Ivan Nemet first played for the Zytglogge -Verein and later for the Schachgesellschaft Basel and the SG Riehen . Most recently he was registered as a member of the Birseck chess club and the Brombach chess club (Badischer Schachverband), where he worked as a youth coach. The Swiss League won Nemet 1999 with the SV Birsfelden / Both Basel, 2002 with Niederrohrdorf.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Honor roll of the Swiss chess masters
  2. Ivan Nemet's results at the European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  3. Ivan Nemet's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)