Vladimir Vuković Explained

Vladimir Vuković (26 August 1898, Zagreb – 18 November 1975, Zagreb) was a Croatian Jewish chess writer, theoretician, player, arbiter, and journalist.

Chess career

Included in Vuković's tournament record achievements:^[1]

• 3rd at Celje 1921, behind Stefan Erdélyi and Imre König
• =4–7th at Vienna 1921 tied with Ernst Grünfeld, Savielly Tartakower, and Árpád Vajda; won by Friedrich Sämisch
• 1st at Vienna 1921
• =10–11th at Vienna 1922; won by Akiba Rubinstein
• =4–5th at Györ 1924 (Hungarian Chess Championship); won by Géza Nagy
• =4–5th at Debrecen 1925; won by Hans Kmoch
  • 7th at Kecskemét 1927 (elim., group B); won by Lajos Steiner =6–7th at Kecskemét 1927 (final B); won by Savielly Tartakower
• 3rd at Ramsgate 1929, behind Adolf Seitz and Árpád Vajda

He played for Yugoslavia on in the 1st Chess Olympiad at London 1927, posting a record of +7−6=2.^[2]

He was awarded the International Master (IM) title in 1951 and International Arbiter (IA) in 1952.

He also served as the vice-president of the Croatian Chess Federation.^[3]

Writer

Vuković edited the monthly chess magazine Šahovski Glasnik (Chess Journal), the official periodical of the Yugoslavian chess federation.He is the author of The Art of Attack in Chess (Oxford-London 1963),^[4] which is widely regarded as a classic of chess literature.^{[5] [6] [7]} Other books he wrote include Razvoj šahovskih ideja [The development of chess ideas] (Zagreb 1928) and The Chess Sacrifice (London-New York 1968).

Legacy

Vuković has a checkmate pattern named after him: Vuković's Mate. It involves checkmating the enemy king with a rook in front of it while a knight blocks off the adjacent escape squares.^[8]

Death

Vuković died on November 18, 1975, in Zagreb and was buried at the Mirogoj Cemetery.^[9]

References

Bibliography

• Book: Greenberg, Martin H.. Jewish Lists. 1987. Schocken Books. New York City. 978-080-523-711-5. registration.
• Book: Skolnik, Fred. Encyclopedia Judaica. Volume 5.. 1978. Keter Publishing Company. Jerusalem. 978-002-865-928-2.

External links

• • Web site: Chess.com's Database for The Art of the Attack by Vladimir Vukovic. September 12, 2022.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's Chess Tournament Crosstables . July 4, 2007 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070704030849/http://www.anders.thulin.name/SUBJECTS/CHESS/CTCIndex.pdf . July 4, 2007 . Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's Chess Tournament Crosstables, An Electronic Edition, Anders Thulin, Malmö, 2004-09-01
2. http://www.olimpbase.org/1927/1927in.html OlimpBase :: 1st Chess Olympiad, London 1927, information
3. http://www.crochess.com/povijest/peleh.htm 95. obljetnica Hrvatskoga šahovskog saveza
4. Book: Robot Check. Amazon. January 1999. Everyman Chess. 9781857444001.
5. http://www.jeremysilman.com/book_reviews_jw/jw_art_attack_chess.html The Art of Attack in Chess
6. http://www.chessville.com/reviews/reviews_artofattack.htm Chessville – Reviews – Art of Attack in Chess
7. Web site: An Enduring Attack. 2023-12-22 .
8. Web site: Vukovic Mate – CHESSFOX.COM . 2023-08-09 . en-US.
9. Gradska groblja Zagreb: Vladimir Vuković, Mirogoj RKT-4-I-47