Zoltan Ribli

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Zoltán Ribli, 2014
Association HungaryHungary Hungary
Born September 6, 1951
Mohács
title International Master (1970)
Grand Master (1973)
Current  Elo rating 2524 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating 2630 (July 1988)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Zoltán Ribli [ ˈzoltaːn ˈribli ] (born September 6, 1951 in Mohács ) is a Hungarian chess player .

Life

Zoltán Ribli, Amsterdam 1974

Ribli won the European Youth Championship twice : 1968/69 (shared with Karl-Heinz Maeder and Rafael Vaganian ) and 1970/71 (undivided).

The World Chess Federation FIDE awarded him the title of International Master in 1970 and the title of Grand Master in 1973 .

He won the Hungarian national championship in 1973, 1974 and 1977.

When World Cup cycle in 1978 he won in 1975 the zone tournament of Reykjavík and qualified for the Interzonal in Manila in 1976, with whom he shared 5th-6th has been. In the cycle for the 1981 World Cup , he won the zone tournament in Warsaw in 1979 and qualified for the interzonal tournament in Riga , where he was tied for third with his compatriot András Adorján , which required a playoff for last place in the candidates' tournament . The competition ended 3: 3, but Adorján had the better score in the tournament and therefore progressed. In the cycle for the 1984 World Cup , Ribli won the zone tournament for the third time in 1982 (in Băile Herculane ) and qualified for the interzonal tournament in Las Palmas in the same year, which he was also able to win. This was the first time he was a candidate for the World Cup. In the quarter-finals of the candidate fights in Alicante in 1983 he succeeded in beating Eugenio Torre 6: 4 (+3 = 6 −1), but surprisingly failed in the semi-finals in London 1983/84 to ex-world champion Vasily Smyslow with 4.5: 7 , 5 (+1 = 7 −3).

He won the 3rd Baden-Baden Chess Festival in 1981 together with Anthony Miles in front of Viktor Kortschnoi . In 1984 he played for the world selection in the match between the USSR and the rest of the world in London on the fifth board against Rafael Vaganian, whom he defeated with 2.5: 1.5 (+1 = 3 −0). In 1985 he was shared 13th with Viktor Korchnoi at the Candidates' Tournament in Montpellier .

In 1986 Ribli won the grandmaster tournament at the Dortmund Chess Days . At the turn of 1986/87 he won in Reggio nell'Emilia . In 1989 he won the traditional tournament in Wijk aan Zee together with Viswanathan Anand , Predrag Nikolić and Gyula Sax .

Ribli has also been an international referee since 1995 and a FIDE senior trainer since 2009 . At the 2008 Chess Olympiad he was the coach of the Austrian national team.

National team

Team Hungary 2019 in Radenci, left Captain Zoltán Ribli

Ribli played for Hungary from 1970 to 1994 at all twelve Chess Olympiads in which Hungary participated (the 1976 Chess Olympiad was boycotted by the Warsaw Pact states ). He was a member of the Hungarian team that sensationally won the gold medal at the 1978 Chess Olympiad in Buenos Aires ahead of the USSR. He also reached second place with the team in 1970, 1972 and 1980 .

He also took part in the 1985 World Team Championship, where he finished second with Hungary and achieved the best individual result on the second board. He played at the European Team Championships in 1973, 1977, 1980 and 1983, where he reached second place with the team in 1977 and 1980, and third place in 1973 and 1983. June 2019 his team won the Mitropa Cup in Radenci .

societies

In Hungary Ribli plays for Aquaprofit NTSK , with whom he became Hungarian team champion in 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 and 2019 . He used to play for Csuti Antal SK Zalaegerszeg , with whom he took part in the 1996 European Club Cup .

In the German 1st Bundesliga , he played from 1985 to 1995 for FC Bayern Munich , with whom he became German team champions in 1986 , 1989 , 1990 , 1991 , 1992 , 1993 and 1995 and won the European Club Cup in 1992, from 1995 to 2000 for the SK Passau , after which he played until 2009 for the TV Tegernsee , with whom he took part in 2005 at the European Club Cup. From 2011 to 2016 he played in the Bundesliga for SV 1930 Hockenheim , and since the 2016/17 season he has played again for FC Bayern Munich.

In the Austrian Bundesliga (state league until 2003) he played for SK Ottakring from 1996 to 2000 (although he took part in the European Club Cup in 1998 with SK Admiral Sparkasse Fürstenfeld ), from 2004 to 2010 for Union Styria Graz , with whom he played in 2006 Austrian team champion was in the 2011/12 season for ASVÖ St. Veit / Glan and in the 2012/13 season for SK Husek . Since 2013 he has been playing for St. Veit again.

In the Bosnian Premijer Liga Ribli played from 2004 to 2007 for ŠK Željezničar Sarajevo , with whom he became the Bosnian team champion in 2007. Ribli also took part in the European Club Cup with the Slovenian club ŠD Radenska Pomgrad Murska Sobota , the Croatian club GŠK Mravince-Dalmacijacement and the Bosnian club ŠK Bihać .

Web links

Commons : Zoltán Ribli  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 76.
  2. ^ Theo Schuster : 3rd Baden-Baden Chess Festival 1981 . Schach-Echo 1981, issue 15, title page.
  3. ↑ Dortmund Chess Days 1986 on TeleSchach (cross table and games)
  4. ↑ Zoltán Riblis results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  5. ↑ Zoltán Riblis results at team world championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  6. ↑ Zoltán Riblis results at European team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  7. ↑ a b c d e Zoltán Riblis results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
  8. ↑ Zoltán Riblis results in the Bosnian Premijer Liga on olimpbase.org (English)
personal data
SURNAME Ribli, Zoltan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ribli, Zoltan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian chess player
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Mohács