Vladimir Vuković

Who was Vladimir Vuković?

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

His tournament record includes the following 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 second board in the 1st Chess Olympiad at London 1927, posting a record of +7−6=2.

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 [The development of chess ideas] and The Chess Sacrifice.