chess-The Oxford Companion to Chess - First Edition by David Hooper & Kenneth Whyld

154 I\.KOV
Chaopionship. held at CoveDtry a.d Birmingham
in 1951. His adult career brougbt him many
sucesses i.cluding shared nBl trizes in sveral
stong tournamenb: Bevesijk 1961 (+7:1-1)
with r.ARsnNi Belgrade 1964, category 12
(+7=9 l), snh (oRcoNo' and spassn; zagreb
1965 (+9:9 1) with UHLMANN abead oI pErRo
SYAN ohen world chanpion), rc
and l-a6ena Saraievo 1967 {+6=9) with srErN:
Bclgrade 1969 (+7=6-2) with
olrcoRra. and MArulovra anead of 8{nrNMx and
cErERi Amsterdam 1974(+5=10) with,ANsa and
mtuAxov ahead ot Gelier. lvkov played in rhe
intcrzonal tournamcnts of I964. 1961. 19 71t. 19 1 3,
and 1979. usually scori.g well, mdqualrying as a
Cnndidate in 1964, but losing to La en in rhe
Once champion and twicc co-champion ol
Yugoslavi a, Ivkov .ep.esented his muntryitr many
Olynpiads from 1956. nolably makinB the best
sore a1 lourlh board (+11=5) in 1962 and at
rccond board (+r=6) in 19?0.
A saidy lrkov Polani€ zd6j
1d4Nf6 2c4c6 lN.3Bb4 1cl0-0 5Ngc?Rc3 6a3
BI3 7d5d6 3g:lNbd7 9BrNe5 10b3eid5 t1.xd5
c6 12 dxc6 bxc6 13 14 Nc34 14 8r.6 Bd7 15 Bxla
oxas 16 r10 Nxe3 17 Bxe3 Bh3 r3 Rf2 Rre3 19 R'
wLw w"H
HW %dru
20...Nxd5 2lRaANe3 22Qd3orB 23Nd4Qh5 24
Re2Ng4 25 Ol5Qxf5 26Nir5Nr6 27Nie7+Bx€7 23
R\e7Rd7 29Re2Kl3 30Rc2Nd5 3l Rd2tsc6 32b4
KDd3 33Ke3h5 39h396 ,rcK(Dxg7 4l RcrKt6 42
Rc5 Ke6 43Kc]h4 44f5+ qxl5 45 sxh4l4 46Kd2B
IWM, see rNrrRNArroNAr. woMAN MAsrER.