Mato Damjanović

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Mato Damjanović 1966.jpg
Mato Damjanović, 1966
Association CroatiaCroatia Croatia
Born March 23, 1927
Đeletovci , Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
Died February 12, 2011
Zagreb
title International Master (1962)
Grand Master (1964)
Best Elo rating 2490 (July 1971)

Mato Damjanović (born March 23, 1927 in Đeletovci ; † February 12, 2011 in Zagreb ) was a Yugoslav , later Croatian chess grandmaster .

successes

He was awarded the title of International Master by FIDE in 1962 and the title of Grand Master in 1964 after his success in Sochi .

Damjanović reached third place with the Yugoslav team at the 1960 Chess Olympiad in Leipzig and second at the 1965 European Team Championship in Hamburg .

Mato Damjanović, Dortmund Chess Days 1974

Tournament results:

  • 1964 Sochi Chigorin Memorial : 2nd place
  • 1969 Zagreb: 1st place
  • 1969 Amsterdam IBM : 4th place
  • 1970 Bad Pyrmont: 1st place
  • 1972 Zagreb: 2nd place
  • 1974 Dortmund: 4th place

In 2006 he was banned from the world chess federation FIDE for one year because he was involved in the submission of standards for a tournament in Hungary, which had not taken place.

Damjanović was most successful in 1971, not only having his highest Elo rating in the first Elo list from July 1971, but also reaching his highest historical rating of 2593 shortly before the Elo rating was introduced in February 1971 .

Web links

Commons : Mato Damjanović  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 75 and p. 90
  2. Mato Damjanović's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  3. Mato Damjanović's results at European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  4. Dortmund Chess Days 1974 from May 3rd to 14th in Dortmund's Westfalenpark on TeleSchach
  5. Decision of the FIDE ethics committee (PDF, English)
  6. Mato Damjanović's Elo development on olimpbase.org (English)
  7. Mato Damjanović's historical Elo numbers on chessmetrics.com (English)