Marko Tratar

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Marko Tratar (2009)
Association SloveniaSlovenia Slovenia
Born May 20, 1974
Ljubljana
title International Master (1995)
Grand Master (2006)
Current  Elo rating 2441 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating 2517 (January 2013)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Marko Tratar (born May 20, 1974 in Ljubljana ) is a Slovenian chess player .

Life

Marko Tratar comes from a chess family. At the age of seven he learned to play chess from an aunt.

successes

In 1989 he was Slovenian U15 champions in the Bacher Mountains , in 1991 in Maribor with half and in 1993 at Pokljuka with 1.5 points ahead of Slovenian U20 champions. In 1997 he won the Slovenian individual championship in Krško with equal points before Duško Pavasovič . He was runner-up in 2002 and 2007, and took third place in 1995, 1999, 2005 and 2008.

He became international champion in 1995. Since July 2006 he has been the eighth Slovene to hold the title of international grandmaster . He achieved the norms for this at the international tournament of LŠK Metalka Trgovina in January 2002 in Ljubljana, at the Open in December 2005 in Zadar and at the 9th International Open in February / March 2006 in Campillos . In February 2015 he is in seventh place in the Slovenian Elo ranking.

National team

With the Slovenian national team Tratar took part in the Chess Olympiads in 1992 , 1998 , 2002 (in the third team), 2006 and 2014 as well as the European Team Championships in 2007 and 2013. He also played at two U26 team world championships (1993 and 1997) and at five Mitropa Cups between 1997 and 2003 , where he won the team in Montecatini Terme in 1997 and he also won a gold medal for his result of 7.5 out of 9 got on the fourth board. In 1998 in Portorož and 2003 in Pula , the Slovenian team finished third with him on the fourth and second board.

societies

In Slovenia he has been playing for ŠK ZM Branik Maribor since 2004 , before that he played for ŠK Piramida Maribor , with whom he participated twice in the European Club Cup , for Ljubljan club LŠK Metalka Trgovina and in the meantime for ŠD Podpeč . In Austria he played until 1994 for IBS Klagenfurt Ost 1997 to 2001 for the SV Raika St. Veit / Glan and since 2003 for the SK Kleine Zeitung MPOE Maria Saal , with whom he started the 2005/06 season in the 1. Bundesliga play and became Austrian team champion in 2016 . In Croatia he plays for Pula and in the Bosnian Premijer Liga 2009 for HŠK Napredak Sarajevo . In the Luxembourg national division, he has been playing for the Gambit Bonnevoie team since the 2014/15 season , with whom he was Luxembourg team champion in 2017 and 2020 and took part in the 2017 European Club Cup.

Game example

At the 90th international tournament of the LŠK Metalka Trgovina in Ljubljana, Marko Tratar played on January 27, 2002 against the more than 200 Elo points stronger grandmaster Andrei Charlow . With an early queen loss Tratar on move 23 and despite the three-pawn deficit, he was able to defeat Charlow after 127 moves. It was in this tournament that Tratar achieved his first grandmaster norm.

Andrei Charlow -
Marko Tratar
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4th Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess plt45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg 4th
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2 Chess --t45.svg Chess plt45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess plt45.svg Chess plt45.svg Chess plt45.svg 2
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Position after
losing the queens 23.Na6xQb8

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Andrei Charlow -
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End position after 127 ... Kf6 – g6

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1. d2 – d4 e7 – e6 2. e2 – e4 d7 – d5 3. Nb1 – d2 d5xe4 4. Nd2xe4 Bc8 – d7 5. Ng1 – f3 Bd7 – c6 6. Bf1 – d3 Nb8 – d7 7. 0–0 Bc6xNe4 8. Bd3xLe4 c7 – c6 9. c2 – c3 Ng8 – f6 10. Be4 – c2 Bf8 – e7 11. Qd1 – d3 Qd8 – c7 12. Rf1 – e1 Ra8 – d8 13. Nf3 – g5 Nd7 – b6 14. Qd3– h3 Nb6 – d5 15. a2 – a3 b7 – b5 16. a3 – a4 a7 – a6 17. a4xb5 a6xb5 18. Re1xe6 fxRe6 19. Ng5xe6 Qc7 – b8 20. Bc2 – g6 + Ke8 – d7 21. Ne6 – c5 + Kd7 – c7 22. Nc6-a6 + Kc7-b7 23. Sa6xQb8

Web links

Commons : Marko Tratar  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. Interview on Klasje.net on klasje.net from 2005, no longer online (Slovenian).
  2. GM application on fide.com (English)
  3. Marko Tratar's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  4. Marko Tratar's results at European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  5. Marko Tratar's results at the U26 World Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  6. Marko Tratar's results at Mitropacups on olimpbase.org (English)
  7. ID card at the Slovenian Chess Federation (Slovenian)
  8. a b Marko Tratar's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
  9. Marko Tratar's results in the Bosnian Premijer Liga on olimpbase.org (English)
  10. The entire game for replay (English)