Bojan Kurajica

Who is Bojan Kurajica?

Bojan Kurajica is a Bosnian chess grandmaster.

Kurajica grew up in Split. He earned the International Master title in 1965 by winning the World Junior Championship. He moved to Zagreb in 1966 to study Italian and English at the Faculty of Philosophy, graduating in 1972.

Kurajica was awarded the GM title in 1974. He played chess in Zagreb until 1979, when he relocated to Sarajevo in order to play for ŠK Bosna. He played for Yugoslavia in Chess Olympiads at Valletta 1980 and Thessaloniki 1984. One of his notable tournament successes was joint 3rd/4th place at the 1976 Wijk aan Zee.

After the collapse of Yugoslavia, he represented Bosnia and Herzegovina eight times between 1992 and 2006.

In December 2005 Kurajica won the 13th Salona Tournament in Solin. In the same year he was awarded the title of FIDE Trainer. As of 2006, he shares his residence between Sarajevo and Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

On the May 2010 FIDE list his Elo rating is 2548.