Albin Planinc
Albin Planinc ( born April 18, 1944 in breeze, community Zagorje ob Savi, † December 20, 2008 in Ljubljana) was a Yugoslav chess player. After Slovenia's independence, he was the beginning of the 1990s, his last name Planinc, which occurs in Slovenia and Croatia, change in the Slovenian name clearly Planinec.
Life
The national championship titles won Albin Planinc, 1965 in Novi Sad. For his victory caused a stir when Vidmar Memorial tournament in Ljubljana in 1969, which he won against Svetozar Gligorić. Him the IM title was awarded for this success. After his split 2nd place in Skopje in 1971, he was Grand Master. He took in the 1970s to some Yugoslav national championships and also belonged to the national team, but was unable to reach significant results there. His best result in tournaments abroad was the split with former World Champion Tigran Petrosian victory at the IBM tournament in Amsterdam in 1973. After 1979, he retired for health reasons ( depression) from tournament chess back for the most part, his last gewertetes tournament he played in 1985. Recent years he spent his life in a psychiatric hospital in Ljubljana.
His best historical Elo rating was 2641st
Game style
Planinc used a spectacular attack style and played very sharp opening variations. In good shape was the " Don Quixote of chess ", as he was known in Yugoslav chess circles, are also world class players dangerous. His match against Rafael Vaganian the tournament in Hastings in 1974 is a prominent example, the Austrian Grandmaster Stefan Kindermann she described as a triumph of the imagination. Albin Planinc led the black stones:
1.d2 -d4 - f6 2.c2 - c4 Ng8 c7 - c5 3.Sg1 -f3 e7 - e6 c5xd4 4.Sf3xd4 5.Sb1 - c3 Bf8 - b4 - b5 6.Sd4 0-0 7.a2 -a3 Lb4xc3 8.Sb5xc3 d7 -d5 g5 h7 - h6 - 9.Lc1 10.Lg5xf6 Dd8xf6 11.c4xd5 e6xd5 12.Dd1xd5 Rf8 -d8 13.Dd5 -f3 Df6 - b6 14.Ta1 -d1 Td8xd1 15.Sc3xd1 Sb8 c6 - 16 Df3 -e3 Nc6 -d4 17.De3 - e8 Kg8 - h7 18.e2 -e3 19.Ke1 Nd4 -c2 -d2 Bc8 - f5 - d6 20.De8xa8 Qb6 21.Kd2 -c1 -a1 Sc2 22.Da8xb7 Dd6 - c7 ( see diagram). White gave up, because at 23 Db7xc7 Sa1 -b3 matt follows. 0-1 This final position would be a rare form of dragonflies Matt's, and it is not executed directly in the Board area.