Mario Bertok was a Croatia

Croatia

Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...

n chess

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...

 master

Chessmaster

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 and sports journalist, writing for the Sportske novosti

Sportske novosti

Sportske novosti is a Croatian daily sports newspaper based in Zagreb.It was first published as a weekly magazine on 9 August 1945 . It changed its name to Narodni sport on 10 December 1945...

daily sports newspaper. He was born in Zagreb

Zagreb

Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city...

, Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia

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Bertok earned the International Master title in 1957. He represented Yugoslavia on board four at the 1960 Chess Olympiad

Chess Olympiad

The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams from all over the world compete against each other. The event is organised by FIDE, which selects the host nation.-Birth of the Olympiad:The first Olympiad was unofficial...

, scoring +5=5−3. A second place finish in the 1960 Yugoslav Championship

Yugoslav Chess Championship

The Yugoslav Chess Championship is a tournament with great tradition, held to determine the national champion. It was a very strong event especially in the period 1945–1991, when it represented players from six federal republics, today independent countries....

 earned Bertok a berth in the 1960 Budapest Zonal where he placed 2nd, taking third after a playoff.
At the 1962 Stockholm Interzonal

World Chess Championship 1963

At the World Chess Championship 1963 Tigran Petrosian narrowly qualified to challenge Mikhail Botvinnik for the World Chess Championship, and then won the match to become the ninth World Chess Champion...

 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

Semka Sokolovic-Bertok

Semka Sokolović-Bertok was a famous Bosnian actress. She also was a competitive chess player in her youth, winning the Croatian Chess Championship eight times....

 (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.

External links

• Bertok, Mario team chess record at olimpbase.org