Petar Trifunović

Petar Trifunović, 1962
Association	Yugoslavia
Born	August 31, 1910 Dubrovnik
Died	December 8, 1980 Belgrade
title	International Master (1950) Grand Master (1953)
Best Elo rating	2700 (November 1947) ( Historic Elo rating )

Petar Trifunović (Cyrillic: Петар Трифуновић ; born August 31, 1910 in Dubrovnik , † December 8, 1980 in Belgrade ) was an important Yugoslav and Serbian chess player and chess theorist.

Life

Petar Trifunović, a lawyer by profession, was a promising chess player even before the Second World War : in 1935 he finished third in the Yugoslav national championship and in 1936 second. After the war he developed his talent and won the national championship title five times: 1945, 1946, 1947 (shared with Svetozar Gligorić ), 1952 and 1961. He was shared runner-up (with Gösta Stoltz ) in Prague in 1946 and managed the zone tournament in Hilversum in 1947 by one with Luděk Pachman shared second place (behind Alberic O'Kelly de Galway ) qualifying for the interzonal tournament in Saltsjöbaden in 1948, in which he took tenth place.

Due to his international success, he received the title of International Master from FIDE in 1950 , and in 1953 he was named Grand Master .

In 1949 he played a match against Miguel Najdorf in a draw 5-5 (+1 = 8 −1) in Belgrade . His other successes in international tournaments include his victories in Zlín 1946, Lima 1950, Sarajewo 1958 (divided), Netanya 1961 (divided) and Beverwijk 1962. Trifunović was considered a very solid and theoretically well-prepared player. He took part with the Yugoslav team in the Chess Olympiads in 1935 , 1937 , 1950 , 1952 , 1954 , 1958 and 1962 . He won with the team in 1950, achieved second place in 1958 and 1962 and third place in 1952 and 1954; In the individual ranking he won on the third board in 1950 and achieved the third best individual result on the fourth board in 1935 and on the second board in 1937. He also represented Yugoslavia at the unofficial Chess Olympiad in 1936 and at the European Team Championships in 1957, 1961 and 1965, in which he finished second.

His best historical rating was 2700. This he reached in November 1947. Trifunović, who published a number of chess books, was a full-time state official in Belgrade, where he also died.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 74.
2. ↑ Petar Trifunović's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
3. ↑ Petar Trifunović's results at unofficial chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
4. ↑ Petar Trifunović's results at the European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)

Web links

• Replayable chess games by Petar Trifunović on chessgames.com (English)