Mišo Cebalo

Mišo Cebalo, Mainz 2010
Association	Croatia
Born	February 6, 1945 Zagreb , Independent State of Croatia
title	International Master (1978) Grand Master (1985)
Current  Elo rating	2160 (January 2020)
Best Elo rating	2570 (January 1995)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Mišo Cebalo (born February 6, 1945 in Zagreb ) is a Croatian chess grandmaster . In 2009 he won the 19th World Chess Championship for seniors in Condino.

Life

He learned to play chess at the age of 5 from his father, who was a good chess player. At the age of 13 he played in the local chess clubs and at the age of 20 he took part in the Yugoslav championship in Titograd . He then studied languages ​​at the University of Zagreb and played little during this time. At the student team world championship in Harrachov in 1967 , he came on board 4 of the Yugoslav team on 4.5 points from 9 games. From 1977 he played again regularly and received the title of International Master in 1978 . Two years later he achieved his first grandmaster norm, but did not receive the title until 1985 when he came in second at the Yugoslav championship after a playoff against tournament winner Slavoljub Marjanović and won the zone tournament in Kavala . At the interzonal tournament in Taxco he came on a shared 6-7. Space. He also played in many open tournaments, especially in Italy. In 2011 he received the title of FIDE Senior Trainer.

Team chess

Cebalo took part in two Chess Olympiads for Croatia , in Manila in 1992 on board 1 (3.5 points from 9 games) and in Moscow in 1994 on board 4 (1.5 points from 4 games). Cebalo also took part in two team European championships, in 1983 in Plovdiv as the second reserve player of the Yugoslav team, which reached second place, in 1992 in Debrecen on the fourth board of the Croatian team. At the European Club Cup Cebalo took 1988 and 1990 with Gosa Smederevska Palanka , 1993 and 1994 with Hask Mladost Zagreb-Novogradnja , 1995 and 1996 with ŠK Teina-Murza Osijek , 1999 GSK Mravince-Dalmacijacement and 2000 ŠK Zrinjevac Zagreb part.

Web links

Commons : Mišo Cebalo  - collection of images

• Replayable chess games by Mišo Cebalo on chessgames.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gaprindashvili and Cebalo become World Senior Champions on chessdom.com (English)
2. ↑ Tournament table
3. ↑ Mišo Cebalo's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
4. ↑ Mišo Cebalos results at European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
5. ↑ Mišo Cebalos results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)