Name Mario Bertok | Role Chess master | |
Died August 20, 2008, Jarun, Zagreb, Croatia Spouse Semka Sokolovic-Bertok (m. ?–2008) | ||
Killegar chess presents mario bertok vs bobby fischer 1962 part 1
Mario Bertok (2 September 1929 – 20 August 2008) was a Croatian chess master and sports journalist, writing for the Sportske novosti daily sports newspaper. He was born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia.
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- Killegar chess presents mario bertok vs bobby fischer 1962 part 1
- Mario bertok vs bobby fischer notable game stockholm interzonal 1962 queen s gambit declined
- References
Bertok earned the International Master title in 1957. He represented Yugoslavia on board four at the 1960 Chess Olympiad, scoring +5=5−3. A second-place finish in the 1960 Yugoslav Championship earned Bertok a berth in the 1960 Budapest Zonal where he placed 2nd, taking third after a playoff. At the 1962 Stockholm Interzonal he finished 17th. His best international result was Rovinj-Zagreb 1970 where he finished 9th=.
Bertok's wife was a well-known Yugoslavian-born Croatian actress Semka Sokolović-Bertok (1935–2008), who herself was a competitive chess player in her youth.
On 20 August 2008, Bertok was reported missing after a few hours of swimming off the shores of Jarun Lake; his body was recovered from the lake later the same day.