Aleksandar Matanović is a Serbia

Serbia

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Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 Grandmaster. He was born in Belgrade

Belgrade

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Awarded the GM title in 1955, he was junior champion of Yugoslavia in 1948 and Yugoslav national champion

Yugoslav Chess Championship

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 in 1962 (joint with Minić

Dragoljub Minic

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), 1969 and 1978 (he took second place in 1951, 1956, 1959 and 1967). He has also been a radio announcer, author of chess books and Editor-in-Chief of Chess Informant

Chess Informant

Chess Informant is a publishing company from Belgrade that periodically produces a book of the same name, as well as the Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings, Encyclopaedia of Chess Endings, Opening Monographs, other print publications, and software Chess Informant (Šahovski Informator) is a...

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His main results include second place at the Vrnjacka Banja

Vrnjacka Banja

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 zonal tournament 1967, first place at Opatija

Opatija

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 1953, second at Belgrade 1954, first at Hamburg

Hamburg

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 1955, first at Beverwijk

Beverwijk

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 1957, tied for first at Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

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 1961, first at Zevenaar

Zevenaar

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 1961, and second at Jerusalem 1964. He has an Elo rating of 2490.

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 (645 games)