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Borislav Ivkov
Serbian chess player / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Borislav Ivkov (November 12, 1933 ā February 14, 2022) was a Serbian chess Grandmaster. He was a World championship candidate in 1965. He played in four more Interzonal tournaments, in 1967, 1970, 1973, and 1979. Ivkov was born in Belgrade, then-Yugoslavia. He was a three-time Yugoslav Champion (1958, 1963, 1972) and was the first World Junior Champion in 1951.
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Ivkov died on February 14, 2022 at the age of 88.[1]