Josip Rukavina | |
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Country | Croatia |
Born | October 29, 1942 |
Title | International Master |
FIDE rating | 2384 (as of January 2021) |
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]
Josip Rukavina | |
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Country | Croatia |
Born | October 29, 1942 |
Title | International Master |
FIDE rating | 2384 (as of January 2021) |
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]