Milan Matulović

Milan Matulović ( born June 10, 1935 in Belgrade, † October 8, 2013 ) was a Yugoslav chess player.

Milan Matulović played from 20 to 26 July 1958 in Belgrade a contest over four games against Bobby Fischer, which he lost with 1.5-2.5. In 1961 he became International Champion, 1965 Grand Master. 1965 and 1967 he was national champion of Yugoslavia. The most successful year of his career was 1969, when he won international tournaments in Skopje, Athens and Belgrade. He was then appointed for the competition USSR against the rest of the world in 1970 in the World XI. There, he lost to Brett 8 against former world champion Mikhail Botvinnik with 1.5-2.5.

For Yugoslavia, he played in five Chess Olympiads between 1964 and 1972 in Tel Aviv in Skopje. He scoring 60 points from 78 games (46 wins, 4 losses, 28 draws). Silver medals for the team, there were 1964 and 1968 in Lugano. In 1964, he won gold in the board vote. He also took from the European team championship in chess in 1961 in Oberhausen to 1973 in Bath at four European team championships. He reached 17 points from 32 games ( 10 wins, 8 losses, 14 draws). With the team he won three silver medals.

He played in two interzonal tournaments, 1967 in Sousse and 1970 in Palma. In both tournaments he took care of negative headlines: In Sousse he took in his game against István Bilek a Fehlzug back, which earned him the nickname Jadoubovic. In Palma, he lost his game in the last round against Mark Taimanov, which necessarily a victory for the qualification for the Candidates Tournament required, under suspicious circumstances. According to tournament book Matulović consumed in contrast to his usual habit of reflection and barely made ​​during the game, he lost almost without resistance, a completely disinterested impression. Although a fraud could never be proved, but his reputation was ruined after this incident. Even in later tournaments, there was unsportsmanlike incidents. At the Chess World Championship for Seniors 1995 he manipulated according to the Dutch grandmaster Hans Ree in a really meaningless game of the chess clock to avoid a loss by exceeding the time limit.

Matulović was an uncompromising offensive player and was one of the leading experts of the Morra Gambit.

His best historical Elo rating was 2676, so it was in December 1967 at No. 20 in the world rankings.

Matulović played here 38.Le2 -f3, but replaced the train by 38.Kf1 - g1