David Ionovich Bronstein February 19, 1924 – December 5, 2006) was a Soviet GM who narrowly missed becoming World Chess Champion in 1951. (It is speculated that he was pressured into throwing the match by the Soviet regime). His creativity at the chessboard, which featured superb tactical understanding, remains legendary to this day.
He did not earn another shot at the World Title after 1951, but won the prestigious Moscow Championships on six occasions and represented the USSR at the Olympiads of 1952, 1954, 1956 and 1958, winning board prizes at each of them, and losing just one of his 49 games in those events.
He is also a highly-regarded chess author.
Ljubomir Ljubojević is a Grandmaster of chess. He was born on November 2, 1950, in Titovo Užice, Yugoslavia and became a GM title in 1971.
He is a two-time Yugoslav champion in (1977 and 1982). In 1983 he was ranked third in the world.
He played for Yugoslavia in twelve Chess Olympiads – nine times on top board, with an overall result of 63.5% (+66 =75 −22) and has defeated almost every top Grandmaster active during his career, including World Champions Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov.
This game was played at the Petropolis Interzonal of 1973 and won the first-ever brilliancy prize. Bronstein opened with 1.e4 and the game went into the razor-sharp four pawns attack variation of Alekhine’s Defence, which was a speciality of Ljubojević. Bronstein’s incredible 16.Bb3!? sacrificed an entire rook, whilst leaving his king in the centre, in order to generate an explosive attack. Ljubojević, in turn, defended creatively, and the result was a spectacular tactical battle.
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