Zoltán Ribli
Zoltán Ribli [ Zolta ː n Ribli ] ( born September 6, 1951 in Mohács ) is a Hungarian chess master.
Life
Ribli twice won the European Youth Championship: 1968 /69 ( shared with Karl -Heinz Maeder and Rafael Vaganian ) 1970 /71 ( undivided ). The World Chess Federation FIDE awarded him the title of International Master in 1970, in 1973 the Grand Master title.
He won 1973, 1974 and 1977 the Hungarian national championship. At the World Championship cycle, in 1978, he won the 1975 tournament zone of Reykjavík and qualified for the Interzonal in Manila in 1976, where he shared 5 - 6th been. In the cycle for the World Cup 1981 he won in 1979 zone tournament in Warsaw and qualified for the interzonal tournament in Riga, where he was with his compatriot Andras Adorjan shared third parties, whereby a random battle for the last seat for the candidates tournament was necessary. The match ended 3:3, but Adorjan had the better rating in the tournament and therefore came on. In the cycle for the World Cup 1984 Ribli won in 1982 for the third time zone tournament ( in Baile Herculane ) and qualified for the interzonal tournament in Las Palmas in the same year, he was also able to win. He was first a candidate for the world championship. In the quarterfinals of candidate fighting in Alicante in 1983 he scored a victory over Eugenio Torre 6-4 ( 3 -1 = 6), but he failed unexpectedly at the semi-final in London in 1983/84 to former world champion Vasily Smyslov 4.5 7,5 ( 1, -3 = 7).
In 1984, he played for the World XI at the competition USSR against the rest of the world in London against Rafael Vaganian he defeated with 2.5:1.5 ( 1, -0 = 3). In 1985 he was at the Candidates Tournament in Montpellier shared 13 together with Viktor Korchnoi.
1986 won Ribli the traditional tournament of Dortmund, at the turn of 1986/87 he won in Reggio Emilia. In 1989 he won together with Viswanathan Anand, Predrag Nikolić and Gyula Sax, the traditional tournament in Wijk aan Zee.
Ribli played for Hungary from 1970 to 1994 at twelve Chess Olympiads 145 games, of which he won 49, 88 played a draw and lost only 8. He was a member of the Hungarian team that sensationally before the Soviet Union won the gold medal at the 1978 Chess Olympiad in Buenos Aires.
Ribli was also a regular player of the multiple European champions FC Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga chess, after which he played until 2009 for the TV Tegernsee. Since 2011 he has played in the Bundesliga for SV 1930 Hockenheim. Since 1995 Ribli is also International Arbiter, FIDE Senior Trainer since 2009. At the Chess Olympiad 2008, he was the coach of the Austrian national team. His Elo rating is 2585 (as of February 2014), the highest ever Elo rating was 2630 in July 1988.