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[center]Svetozar Gligoric in 1961[/center][font size="1"]Photo by Gerhard Hund (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:GFHund) in Wikimedia Commons (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gligoric_1961_Oberhausen.jpg)
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Serbian/Yugoslav grandmaster Svetozar Gligoric died of a stroke today in Belgrade at the age of 89.
Gliroric was the leader of the Yugoslav chess movement that rivaled even the Soviets in the years following World War II. He played in several world championship cycles, but never with outstanding success. He was the Yugoslav champion twelve times and represented Yugoslavia in the chess olympics fifteen tiem, thirteen of those playing the top board.
Gligoric was an noted opening theorist whose favorite openings as a player were the Spanish Opening and the King's Indian Defense. He was considered in this greatest years to have been the second best King's Indian player in the world behind only Bobby Fischer.
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