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

Chess career

Included in Vuković's tournament record achievements: He played for Yugoslavia on 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

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

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

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