# Milko Bobotsov

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{{Short description|Bulgarian chess grandmaster (1931–2000)}}
{{Infobox chess player
| image = Milko Bobotsov 1966.jpg
| caption = Bobotsov in 1966
| country = Bulgaria
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1931|9|30}}
| birth_place = [Plovdiv](/source/Plovdiv), [Bulgaria](/source/Bulgaria)
| death_date = {{death date and age|2000|4|3|1931|9|30}}
| death_place = [Sofia](/source/Sofia), [Bulgaria](/source/Bulgaria)
| title = [Grandmaster](/source/Grandmaster_(chess)) (1961)
|spouse = [Antonia Ivanova](/source/Antonia_Ivanova)
| peakrating = 2485 (July 1971)
| peakranking = No. 96 (July 1971)
}}
'''Milko Georgiev Bobotsov''' ({{langx|bg|Милко Георгиев Бобоцов}}; 30 September 1931, in [Plovdiv](/source/Plovdiv) – 3 April 2000, in [Sofia](/source/Sofia), [Bulgaria](/source/Bulgaria)<ref>[http://more.info.bg/old/2000/br683/rub03.asp#18 Почина Милко Бобоцов] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706143303/http://more.info.bg/old/2000/br683/rub03.asp |date=2011-07-06 }}. info.bg (4 April 2000)</ref>) was the first [Bulgaria](/source/Bulgaria)n to attain the [chess](/source/chess) title of [Grandmaster](/source/Grandmaster_(chess)), achieving this title in 1961.  Prior to gaining the title he won the [Bulgarian national championship](/source/Bulgarian_Chess_Championship) in 1958.  Probably his best result was equal second at the powerful [Alekhine](/source/Alexander_Alekhine) Memorial tournament in Moscow in 1967. Other successes included first or shared first places at [Varna](/source/Varna%2C_Bulgaria) 1957, [Pécs](/source/P%C3%A9cs) ([Asztalos](/source/Lajos_Asztalos) Memorial) 1964 and [Sarajevo](/source/Sarajevo), Bosna 1971.

He was not a full-time chess player, working as an instructor of [gymnastics](/source/gymnastics) for several years before suffering a near-fatal [stroke](/source/cerebrovascular_accident) in 1972 that severely curtailed his chess and other activities. However, after 18 years of inactivity, he participated in a tournament in Iran in 1991.  He was [married](/source/List_of_chess_families) to the [Woman Grandmaster](/source/Woman_Grandmaster) [Antonia Ivanova](/source/Antonia_Ivanova).
thumb|Milko Bobotsov in 1965
==References==
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==Further reading==
*{{cite book | author=[Golombek, Harry](/source/Harry_Golombek) (ed.) | title=Golombek's Encyclopedia of Chess | publisher=Crown Publishers | year=1977 | isbn=0-517-53146-1}}

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