Vladimir Vuković

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

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 second board in the 1st Chess Olympiad at London 1927, posting a record of +7−6=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.

=== 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), which is widely regarded as a classic of chess literature. 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.

== Death == Vuković died on November 18, 1975, in Zagreb and was buried at the Mirogoj Cemetery.

Greenberg, Martin H. (1987). Jewish Lists. New York City: Schocken Books. ISBN 978-080-523-711-5. Skolnik, Fred (1978). Encyclopedia Judaica. Volume 5. Jerusalem: Keter Publishing Company. ISBN 978-002-865-928-2. Dunne, Alex (2005). Great Chess Books of the Twentieth Century in English. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0-7864-2207-4.

== External links == Vladimir Vukovic player profile and games at Chessgames.com "Chess.com's Database for The Art of the Attack by Vladimir Vukovic". September 12, 2022.