# Bruno Parma

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{{Short description|Slovene chess grandmaster (1941–2026)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2026}}
{{Infobox chess biography
| image       = Bruno Parma.jpg
| caption     = 
| country     = Slovenia
| birth_date  = {{birth date|1941|12|30|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [Ljubljana](/source/Ljubljana), Italian-occupied Yugoslavia
| death_date  = {{death date and age|2026|02|06|1941|12|30|df=yes}}
| death_place = 
| title       = [Grandmaster](/source/Grandmaster_(chess)) (1963)
| peakranking = No. 46 (January 1978)
| peakrating  = 2540 (January 1978)
}}

'''Bruno Parma''' (30 December 1941 – 6 February 2026) was a Slovene-Yugoslav chess player and [Grandmaster](/source/Grandmaster_(chess)).

==Biography==
Parma was born in [Ljubljana](/source/Ljubljana), in [Italian-occupied Slovenia](/source/Province_of_Ljubljana).<ref name="Gaige">{{citation
 | last=Gaige | first=Jeremy | author-link=Jeremy Gaige
 | year=1987 | title=Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography
 | publisher=McFarland
 | isbn=0-7864-2353-6
 | page=319}}</ref> He first played in the [World Junior Chess Championship](/source/World_Junior_Chess_Championship) in 1959, sharing second place.  Two years later at age 21 he won the next Junior Championship (The Hague 1961), receiving the title of [International Master](/source/International_Master).
[FIDE](/source/F%C3%A9d%C3%A9ration_Internationale_des_%C3%89checs) granted him the grandmaster title based on his outstanding performance at the [Beverwijk tournament](/source/Corus_chess_tournament) in 1963.<ref name="Keene">{{citation
 | last=Keene | first=Raymond | author-link=Raymond Keene
 | editor-last=Golombek | editor-first=Harry | editor-link=Harry Golombek
 | year=1977 | title=Golombek's Encyclopedia of Chess
 | publisher=Crown Publishing
 | isbn=0-517-53146-1
 | contribution=Parma, Bruno
 | page=233}}</ref> He was the third Slovene to become a grandmaster, after [Milan Vidmar](/source/Milan_Vidmar) (1950) and [Vasja Pirc](/source/Vasja_Pirc) (1953). He won the [Slovenian Chess Championship](/source/Slovenian_Chess_Championship) in 1959 and 1961 and shared third place with [Dragoljub Minić](/source/Dragoljub_Mini%C4%87), [Milan Matulović](/source/Milan_Matulovi%C4%87), and [Bojan Kurajica](/source/Bojan_Kurajica) in the 1968 [Yugoslav Championship](/source/Yugoslav_Chess_Championship) in Čateške Toplice.

In an international tournament at [San Juan, Puerto Rico](/source/San_Juan%2C_Puerto_Rico) in 1969 he was second together with two grandmasters, [Arthur Bisguier](/source/Arthur_Bisguier) and [Walter Browne](/source/Walter_Browne), behind [Boris Spassky](/source/Boris_Spassky).<ref>{{cite web|title=Event Details: San Juan, 1969|url=http://www.chessmetrics.com/cm/CM2/SingleEvent.asp?Params=199510SSSSS3S124734000000141100434200000010100|website=Chessmetrics|accessdate=22 January 2015}}</ref>  His best results were shared first with [Georgi Tringov](/source/Georgi_Tringov) in [Vršac](/source/Vr%C5%A1ac) 1973 ahead of [Wolfgang Uhlmann](/source/Wolfgang_Uhlmann).<ref name="Keene"/>

He played for the Yugoslav team in the [Chess Olympiad](/source/Chess_Olympiad)s eight times: [1962](/source/15th_Chess_Olympiad), [1964](/source/16th_Chess_Olympiad), [1966](/source/17th_Chess_Olympiad), [1968](/source/18th_Chess_Olympiad), [1970](/source/19th_Chess_Olympiad), [1974](/source/21st_Chess_Olympiad), [1978](/source/23rd_Chess_Olympiad), and [1980](/source/24th_Chess_Olympiad).  The Yugoslav team won four silver medals and two bronze medals in those years.<ref name="olimpbase">[http://www.olimpbase.org/players/b31ffpjc.html Parma, Bruno] team chess record at olimpbase.org</ref> He also represented Yugoslavia nine times in the [USSR versus Yugoslavia](/source/USSR_versus_Yugoslavia) matches held in the 1960s and 1970s.<ref>{{cite book |title=Шахматы. Энциклопедический Словарь |trans-title=Chess. Encyclopedic Dictionary |language=ru |editor=[Anatoly Karpov](/source/Anatoly_Karpov) |pages=380–381 |year=1990 |publisher=[Sovetskaya Entsiklopediya](/source/Sovetskaya_Entsiklopediya) |isbn=5-85270-005-3}}</ref>

Parma died on 6 February 2026, at the age of 84.<ref name="o459">{{cite news |title=Umrl je šahovski velemojster Bruno Parma |work=MMC RTV-SLO |publisher=[Radiotelevizija Slovenija](/source/Radiotelevizija_Slovenija) |date=10 February 2026 |url=https://www.rtvslo.si/sport/preostali-sporti/umrl-je-sahovski-velemojster-bruno-parma/772984 |language=sl |access-date=10 February 2026}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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* {{chessgames player|id=22978}}

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Category:1941 births
Category:2026 deaths
Category:Chess players from Ljubljana
Category:Chess Grandmasters
Category:Slovenian chess players
Category:Yugoslav chess players
Category:World Junior Chess Champions
Category:Chess Olympiad competitors

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