Andrija Fuderer

Who was Andrija Fuderer?

Andrija Fuderer was a Croatian–Belgian chess master.

At the beginning of his career, he won the Yugoslav Junior Chess Championship in 1947. He was the 1951 Croatian champion, and was a common participant in the Yugoslav Chess Championship tying for 2nd in 1951, took 2nd, behind Petar Trifunović, in 1952, and won in 1953.

In other tournaments, he took 4th at Bled 1950, shared 2nd, behind Albéric O'Kelly de Galway, at Dortmund 1951, took 5th at Beverwijk 1952.

Fuderer won at Saarbrücken 1953, took 2nd at Opatija 1953, took 4th at Munich 1954, tied for 3rd-5th at Hastings 1954/55, and tied for 14-15th at Gotheburg 1955. After that last failure, he left chess for a University career in chemistry. He earned PhD degree from the University of Zagreb, and became a famous inventor.

Andrija Fuderer played thrice for Yugoslavia in Chess Olympiads:

In 1952 in Helsinki, won team bronze medal;