Vladimir Vuković

Vladimir Vuković was a Croatian Jewish chess writer, theoretician, player, arbiter, and journalist.

Chess career

Included in Vuković's tournament record achievements:

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 ; won by Géza Nagy
=4–5th at Debrecen 1925; won by Hans Kmoch
7th at Kecskemét 1927 ; won by Lajos Steiner
=6–7th at Kecskemét 1927 ; 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.
He was awarded the International Master title in 1951 and International Arbiter in 1952.
He also served as the vice-president of the Croatian Chess Federation.

Writer

Vuković edited the monthly chess magazine Šahovski Glasnik, the official periodical of the Yugoslavian chess federation.
He is the author of The Art of Attack in Chess, which is widely regarded as a classic of chess literature. Other books he wrote include Razvoj šahovskih ideja and The Chess Sacrifice.

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.