Vladimir Vuković
{{Short description|Croatian Jewish chess writer, theoretician, player, arbiter and journalist}}
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{{Infobox chess player
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|country = Croatia
|birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1898|08|26}}
|birth_place = Zagreb, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, (now Croatia)
|death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1975|11|18|1898|08|26}}
|death_place = Zagreb, SFR Yugoslavia
|title = International Master (1951)
International Arbiter (1952)
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Vladimir Vuković (26 August 1898, Zagreb – 18 November 1975, Zagreb) was a Croatian Jewish{{harvtxt|Greenberg|1987|pp=210–214}}{{harvtxt|Skolnik|1978|pp=401–410}} chess writer, theoretician, player, arbiter, and journalist.{{citation
| last=Gaige | first=Jeremy | author-link=Jeremy Gaige
| year=1987 | title=Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography
| publisher=McFarland
| isbn=0-7864-2353-6
| page=452}}
Chess career
Included in Vuković's tournament record achievements:{{cite web|url=http://www.anders.thulin.name/SUBJECTS/CHESS/CTCIndex.pdf |title=Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's Chess Tournament Crosstables |access-date=July 4, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070704030849/http://www.anders.thulin.name/SUBJECTS/CHESS/CTCIndex.pdf |archive-date=July 4, 2007 }} Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's Chess Tournament Crosstables, An Electronic Edition, Anders Thulin, Malmö, 2004-09-01
- 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 {{chessgloss|board|second board}} in the 1st Chess Olympiad at London 1927, posting a record of +7−6=2.[http://www.olimpbase.org/1927/1927in.html OlimpBase :: 1st Chess Olympiad, London 1927, information]
He was awarded the International Master (IM) title in 1951 and International Arbiter (IA) in 1952.{{citation
| last=Sunnucks | first=Anne | author-link=Anne Sunnucks
| year=1970 | title=The Encyclopaedia of Chess
| publisher=St. Martin's Press
| page=522
| lccn=78106371}}
He also served as the vice-president of the Croatian Chess Federation.[http://www.crochess.com/povijest/peleh.htm 95. obljetnica Hrvatskoga šahovskog saveza]
=Writer=
Vuković edited the monthly chess magazine Šahovski Glasnik (Chess Journal), the official periodical of the Yugoslavian chess federation.{{citation
| last=Brace | first=Edward R.
| year=1977 | title=An Illustrated Dictionary of Chess
| publisher=Hamlyn Publishing Group
| isbn=1-55521-394-4
| page=301}}
He is the author of The Art of Attack in Chess (Oxford-London 1963),{{Cite book | url=https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1857444000/ref=oss_product | title=Robot Check| via=Amazon| date=January 1999| publisher=Everyman Chess| isbn=9781857444001}} which is widely regarded as a classic of chess literature.[http://www.jeremysilman.com/book_reviews_jw/jw_art_attack_chess.html The Art of Attack in Chess][http://www.chessville.com/reviews/reviews_artofattack.htm Chessville – Reviews – Art of Attack in Chess]{{cite web| url=http://www.chesscafe.com/text/aac.txt | access-date=2023-12-22 | title=An Enduring Attack}} 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.{{Cite web |title=Vukovic Mate – CHESSFOX.COM |url=https://chessfox.com/vukovic-mate/ |access-date=2023-08-09 |language=en-US}}
Death
Vuković died on November 18, 1975, in Zagreb and was buried at the Mirogoj Cemetery.{{in lang|hr}} Gradska groblja Zagreb: Vladimir Vuković, Mirogoj RKT-4-I-47
References
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Bibliography
- {{cite book|last=Greenberg|first=Martin H.|title=Jewish Lists|year=1987|publisher=Schocken Books|location=New York City|isbn=978-080-523-711-5|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/jewishlistsphysi00gree}}
- {{cite book|last=Skolnik|first=Fred|title=Encyclopedia Judaica. Volume 5.|year=1978|publisher=Keter Publishing Company|location=Jerusalem|isbn=978-002-865-928-2}}
External links
- {{chessgames player|id=11161|name=Vladimir Vukovic}}
- {{cite web|url= https://www.chess.com/c/KW36ZSbp|title=Chess.com's Database for The Art of the Attack by Vladimir Vukovic|date=September 12, 2022}}
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