Ljubomir Ljubojević

Ljubomir Ljubojević (Serbian Љубомир Љубојевић; born November 2, 1950 in Titovo Užice ) is a Serbian, formerly Yugoslav chess player. He is considered by Svetozar Gligorić as the most successful chess champion of Yugoslavia.

Like a comet appeared to the young Ljubomir Ljubojević to the early 1970s on the international tournament arena. His second place finish at the European Youth Championships 1969/70 in Groningen was at home rewarded with an invitation to the Grand Master tournament in Sarajevo. The young man took his chance and won the tournament together with Grandmaster Bruno Parma. His victories continued and the World Chess Federation FIDE awarded him in 1971 the title of Grand Master.

Ljubojević made ​​many attempts to get under the candidate for the world championship, but he managed it never. Its highly tactical and risky style always found the enthusiasm of the chess lover, but it was the top players fairly quickly possible to adjust to him. He was one of the most successful players of the 1970s and 1980s. Among his greatest successes include victories in tournaments of Palma de Mallorca in 1971, Las Palmas and Montreal in 1974, Orense, 1975, Manila, 1975, Wijk aan Zee 1976 Titovo Užice 1978, Buenos Aires 1980 and 1981, Brasília in 1981, Linares 1985, Belgrade 1987, Brussels, 1987, Viña del Mar in 1988 and Barcelona in 1989. 1979 he defeated Svetozar Gligorić in a contest in Belgrade with 5.5:4.5.

His current Elo rating is 2571 (as of August 2012), but it will run as inactive because he has not played a game more -evaluated since the NH Tournament in Amsterdam in August 2010. His previous highest Elo rating was 2645 in January 1983. Thus he was behind Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov, the No. 3 in the world, this was his best world ranking.

Living in Spain Grandmaster Ulf Andersson and applies in addition to Mihai Suba as a pioneer and expert in the hedgehog position.