[[File:Beslissingsvierkamp om 2 plaatsen in het Interzonale Toernooi, vlnr Bilek, O, Bestanddeelnr 911-7976.jpg|thumb|Bertok vs. Aleksandar Matanović (1960)]] '''Mario Bertok''' (2 September 1929 – 20 August 2008) was a Croatian chess master and sports journalist, writing for the ''Sportske novosti''<ref name="Jutarnji"/> daily sports newspaper. He was born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia.
== Career == 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=.
== Personal Life and Death == Bertok's wife was a well-known Yugoslav actress Semka Sokolović-Bertok (1935–2008), who herself was a competitive chess player in her youth.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.filmski.net/vijesti/dugometrazni-film/5413/umrla_semka_sokolovic-bertok | title=Umrla Semka Sokolović-Bertok | date=March 6, 2008 | work=filmski.net | language=Croatian | accessdate=2008-08-22 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180112042840/http://www.filmski.net/vijesti/dugometrazni-film/5413/umrla_semka_sokolovic-bertok | archive-date=January 12, 2018 | url-status=dead }}</ref>
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.<ref name="Jutarnji">{{cite news | url=http://jutarnji.hr/crna_kronika/clanak/art-2008,8,21,,130633.jl | title=Na Jarunu se utopio Mario Bertok | newspaper=Jutarnji list | date=August 21, 2008 | language=Croatian | accessdate=2008-08-22 | archive-date=2008-08-23 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080823232706/http://jutarnji.hr/crna_kronika/clanak/art-2008,8,21,,130633.jl | url-status=dead }}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}} {{refbegin}} *{{citation | last=Brace | first=Edward R. | year=1977 | title=An Illustrated Dictionary of Chess | publisher=Hamlyn Publishing Group | isbn=1-55521-394-4 | page=32}} *{{citation | last=Gaige | first=Jeremy | author-link=Jeremy Gaige | year=1987 | title=Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography | publisher=McFarland | isbn=0-7864-2353-6 | page=35}} *{{citation | last=Sunnucks | first=Anne | author-link=Anne Sunnucks | year=1970 | title=The Encyclopaedia of Chess | publisher=St. Martin's Press | page=26 | lccn=78106371}} {{refend}}
==External links== *{{Chessgames player|11250}} *{{OlimpBase player|77t5nfrd}}
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