Vladimir Vuković

Vladimir Vuković (Croatia, 26.8.1898 - 18.11.1975)

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

Chess:

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 (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 of chess books:

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

Source: Wikipedia

              Dutch Website ARVES.org

Others: On ARVES.org 5 endgame studies with solution by him are selected.