Happy Birthday Ljubomir Ljubojević

Ljubomir Ljubojević is a Serbian chess grandmaster. He was born on 2 November 1950 in Titovo Užice, Yugoslavia (now Užice, Serbia). 

He was awarded the International Master title in 1970 and the Grandmaster title in 1971. Ljubojević was Yugoslavian Chess Champion in 1977 and 1982. In 1983 he was ranked third in the Elo rating list, but he never succeeded in reaching the Candidates Tournament stage of the World Championship.

He played for Yugoslavia in twelve Chess Olympiads, nine times on top board, with an overall result of 63.5% (+66−22=75). He won an individual gold medal on third board at Skopje 1972 and three bronze medals (one individual and two team).

Ljubojević tied for first place with Robert Hübner at Linares 1985. He has defeated almost every top grandmaster active during his career, including world champions Garry Kasparov, Anatoly Karpov, and Viswanathan Anand.

Tournament victories:
Palma de Majorca 1971
Canadian Open 1974
Las Palmas 1974
Las Palmas 1975
Manila 1975
Wijk aan Zee 1976
São Paulo 1979
Buenos Aires 1979
Linares 1985
Reggio Emilia 1985–86
Belgrade 1987
Brussels 1987
Barcelona 1989
Reggio Emilia 1990–91

The following game was played against Wolfgang Uhlmann in the 2nd round of the Amsterdam IBM Tournament. It was played on July 9th, 1975.

The next game was played at Milan Italy on August 21st, 1975 against Bent Larsen.

Our third game was played at the Hoogovens Tournament at Wijk aan Zee Netherlands on January 18th, 1976 against Ulf Andersson.

Next we have a game that was played in the 11th round of the Olympiad at Lucerne, Switzerland against Lajos Portisch on November 11th, 1982.

The 5th game of our feature was played against Viktor Korchnoi on March 11th, 1985 in the 3rd Round at Linares Spain.

Our final game was played on June 4th, 1986 against Tony Miles at Bugojno (Bosnia & Herzegovina).