Josip Rukavina

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Josip Rukavina
Personal information
Born (1942-10-29) October 29, 1942 (age 83)
Chess career
Country Croatia
Title International Master (1972)
Peak rating 2510 (July 1985)

Josip Rukavina (born October 29, 1942) is a Croatian chess International Master. [1] He played in the June 1973 Leningrad Interzonal tournament, intended to select a challenger to Bobby Fischer for the World Chess Championship 1975. Rukavina finished fifteenth out of eighteen players in total. [2] Among his games in this tournament was one that he won against Viktor Korchnoi, who previously had a one-point lead, but subsequently ended up finishing the tournament tied with Anatoly Karpov. [3] He also lost a game in the same tournament to Jan Smejkal. [4]

References

  1. ↑ "Rukavina, Josip FIDE Chess Profile". FIDE . Retrieved 2019-06-01.
  2. ↑ "Leningrad Interzonal (1973)". Chessgames.com . Retrieved 2019-06-01.
  3. ↑ Soltis, Andrew (2016-04-07). Soviet Chess 1917-1991. McFarland & Company. p. 315. ISBN   9781476611235.
  4. ↑ "Chess: Even the Leaders Can Slip (and Even the Also-Rans Triumph)". The New York Times . 1973-06-21. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2019-06-01.
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