Rovinj, Round 10: Fischer wins top encounter

by Klaus Besenthal
4/19/2020 – After his surprising loss against Vlatko Kovacevic in round 8 of the Tournament of Peace in Rovinj/Zagreb Bobby Fischer is back on track. After a draw against Vassily Smyslov in round 9 he convincingly defeated Svetozar Gligoric, his closest rival, in round 10 and now leads with 8.0/10. Gligoric, Vlastimil Hort, Viktor Kortschnoi and Tigran Petrosian are all one and half point behind and share places two to five with 6½/10.
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Tournament of Peace, Round 10

The top encounter of round 10 turned out to be rather one-sided. Svetozar Gligoric had been closely trailing Fischer throughout the entire tournament, but in their direct encounter Gligoric was convincingly outplayed by the American.

 
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Svetozar Gligoric and Bobby Fischer | Photo: Sindik

Walter Browne played with Black against Borislav Ivkov and was completely winning but then blundered and lost.

 
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The game of former World Champion Vassily Smyslov against Bojan Kurajica was amazingly similar to Fischer's game against Gligoric: in both games the queenside was completely blocked and White won on the kingside after some patient maneuvering with king and rooks.

 
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Vassily Smyslov | Photo: Dutch National Archive

Mijo Udovcic cherished wild attacking plans against his young countryman Vlatko Kovacevic but these dreams quickly turned out to be illusions – and the blunder which finally cost Udovcic the game somehow was a fitting end of the game.

 
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Results of round 10

Ghitescu ½-½ Hort
Kortschnoj ½-½ Marovic
Fischer 1-0 Gligoric
Ivkov 1-0 Browne
Parma ½-½ Nicevski
Bertok ½-½ Uhlmann
Smyslov 1-0 Kurajica
Minic ½-½ Petrosian
Udovcic 0-1 Kovacevic

Standings after round 10

Rk. Name 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Pts.
1 Robert James Fischer       1   ½   0   1 1 ½   1   1 1 1 8.0 / 10
2 Tigran V Petrosian     ½ 0     ½ 1   ½ ½       1 1 ½ 1 6.5 / 10
3 Viktor Lvovich Kortschnoj   ½     ½ ½     1   0 1 1 ½     ½ 1 6.5 / 10
4 Svetozar Gligoric 0 1     ½ 1   ½ ½ ½     ½       1 1 6.5 / 10
5 Vlastimil Hort     ½ ½     ½ 1   ½ ½ 1   ½ 1 ½     6.5 / 10
6 Vassily V Smyslov ½   ½ 0     ½       ½ 1 1 ½ ½ ½     5.5 / 10
7 Mario Bertok   ½     ½ ½     ½ ½   ½ ½ ½     ½ 1 5.5 / 10
8 Vlatko Kovacevic 1 0   ½ 0       0 1     ½   1   ½ ½ 5.0 / 10
9 Walter Shawn Browne     0 ½     ½ 1   0 ½ 0     1 ½ 1   5.0 / 10
10 Wolfgang Uhlmann 0 ½   ½ ½   ½ 0 1           1   1 0 5.0 / 10
11 Dragoljub Minic 0 ½ 1   ½ ½     ½     ½ ½ ½   ½     5.0 / 10
12 Borislav Ivkov ½   0   0 0 ½   1   ½   ½ ½   1     4.5 / 10
13 Bojan Kurajica     0 ½   0 ½ ½     ½ ½   ½ ½ ½     4.0 / 10
14 Theodor Ghitescu 0   ½   ½ ½ ½       ½ ½ ½   0 ½     4.0 / 10
15 Mijo Udovcic   0     0 ½   0 0 0     ½ 1     1 1 4.0 / 10
16 Bruno Parma 0 0     ½ ½     ½   ½ 0 ½ ½       ½ 3.5 / 10
17 Drazen Marovic 0 ½ ½ 0     ½ ½ 0 0         0     ½ 2.5 / 10
18 Risto Nicevski 0 0 0 0     0 ½   1         0 ½ ½   2.5 / 10

Games of rounds 1-10

 
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Klaus Besenthal is computer scientist, has followed and still follows the chess scene avidly since 1972 and since then has also regularly played in tournaments.

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