The chess games of Josip Rukavina

Josip Rukavina
Number of games in database: 237
Years covered: 1971 to 2011
Last FIDE rating: 2406
Highest rating achieved in database: 2480
Overall record: +60 -66 =111 (48.7%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS

With the White pieces:

English (22)
    A15 A13 A14 A17 A10
Reti System (12)
    A04 A06 A05
King's Indian (10)
    E66 E60 E62 E70 E64
Queen's Pawn Game (7)
    A45 A40 D02 A46
English, 1 c4 c5 (7)
    A30 A32 A36 A38 A33
English, 1 c4 e5 (6)
    A20 A22 A26 A25

With the Black pieces:

Pirc (23)
    B09 B08 B07
Robatsch (23)
    B06
Queen's Pawn Game (16)
    A41 A40
King's Indian (8)
    E62 E91 E76 E94
Ruy Lopez (8)
    C95 C69 C79 C94 C90
Ruy Lopez, Closed (6)
    C95 C94 C90 C93 C91

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JOSIP RUKAVINA (born Oct-29-1942) Yugoslavia (citizen of Croatia)	[what is this?]
International Master and FIDE Trainer.

page 1 of 10; games 1-25 of 237

Game	Result	Moves	Year	Event/Locale	Opening
1. M Bobotsov vs J Rukavina	1-0	37	1971	Sarajevo	E91 King's Indian
2. Matulovic vs J Rukavina	0-1	57	1971	Sarajevo	B08 Pirc, Classical
3. H Messing vs J Rukavina	1-0	56	1971	Sarajevo	B06 Robatsch
4. Minev vs J Rukavina	1-0	41	1971	Sarajevo 14th	B06 Robatsch
5. J Rukavina vs Bronstein	0-1	30	1971	Sarajevo	E15 Queen's Indian
6. J Rukavina vs Matulovic	1-0	41	1972	YUG-ch	A32 English, Symmetrical Variation
7. J Rukavina vs N Skalkotas	1-0	41	1972	?	A89 Dutch, Leningrad, Main Variation with Nc6
8. J Rukavina vs Tseshkovsky	1-0	38	1972	YUG-URS	E05 Catalan, Open, Classical line
9. J Rukavina vs A Planinc	½-½	18	1972	YUG-ch	A04 Reti Opening
10. Adorjan vs J Rukavina	½-½	31	1972	Vrnjachka Banja (Yugoslavia)	B19 Caro-Kann, Classical
11. J Rukavina vs Beliavsky	½-½	28	1972	Sombor	A04 Reti Opening
12. Tseshkovsky vs J Rukavina	½-½	43	1972	YUG-URS	C91 Ruy Lopez, Closed
13. J Rukavina vs Adorjan	1-0	40	1972	Ch Yugoslavia	B06 Robatsch
14. J Rukavina vs R Hartoch	½-½	16	1972	Skopje ol (Men)	A04 Reti Opening
15. Tseshkovsky vs J Rukavina	0-1	39	1972	YUG-URS	C90 Ruy Lopez, Closed
16. Velimirovic vs J Rukavina	1-0	37	1972	Parcetic mem 5th	C69 Ruy Lopez, Exchange, Gligoric Variation, 6.d4
17. J Rukavina vs Kurajica	½-½	22	1972	JUG-ch	D58 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst
18. Ivkov vs J Rukavina	½-½	26	1972	Umag	C79 Ruy Lopez, Steinitz Defense Deferred
19. J Rukavina vs Matulovic	½-½	49	1972	Parcetic mem 5th	E64 King's Indian, Fianchetto, Yugoslav System
20. Velimirovic vs J Rukavina	0-1	43	1972	YUG-ch	B06 Robatsch
21. J Rukavina vs Tseshkovsky	½-½	31	1972	YUG-URS	E17 Queen's Indian
22. J Rukavina vs Smejkal	½-½	76	1972	Vrnjacka Banja zt	A15 English
23. Ljubojevic vs J Rukavina	½-½	38	1972	Umag	B11 Caro-Kann, Two Knights, 3...Bg4
24. J Rukavina vs Huebner	½-½	30	1973	Leningrad Interzonal	E62 King's Indian, Fianchetto
25. Filip vs J Rukavina	1-0	57	1973	Chigorin mem	A30 English, Symmetrical


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Sep-16-08		Poisonpawns: Yugoslavian/Croatian IM Defeated Tal and Korchnoi in 1973 Interzonal tournament.Chessmetrics has him at 2591 in 1973 and he was #82 on 1973 ratings list.

Dec-07-09		Tabanus: IM Josip Rukavina, Croatia, born 29* October 1942. Now rated 2428, http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?... IM in 1972. Chessmetrics (today): 2554 in 1972 (world no. 66). Interzonal tourn. 1973: http://www.worldchesslinks.net/ezdn... http://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/737... Played in the olympiad 1972 (2nd reserve) and in Mitropa Cup 1978 (board 2). Co-winner of Biel Master Open 1980. Placed 15th in World Senior Ch 2009, 120th in European Individual Ch 2009 (see who's no. 121!): http://www.chess-results.com/tnr182... Biography: http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josip_... (in Polish) Pictures: http://public.carnet.hr/sk-losinj/o... http://novine.novilist.hr/images/cl... Hort is also on his list. But not Spassky: [Event "Chigorin Memorial"] [Site "Sochi"] [Date "1973.09.??"] [Round "8"] [White "Spassky, Boris V"] [Black "Rukavina, Josip"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "2660"] [BlackElo "2460"] 1.e4 d6 2.d4 g6 3.c4 Bg7 4.Nc3 Nf6 5.f4 O-O 6.Be3 c6 7.Bd3 a6 8.Nge2 b5 9.O-O Nbd7 10.Kh1 Rb8 11.b3 e5 12.Rc1 Re8 13.d5 cxd5 14.cxd5 Nh5 15.Qd2 Nc5 16.Bb1 Bd7 17.g4 Nf6 18.Ng3 Qa5 19.g5 Nh5 20.Nxh5 gxh5 21.Qf2 Rbc8 22.Ne2 Qa3 23.Ng3 Rc7 24.Nxh5 Rec8 25.Qh4 Kh8 26.Nxg7 1-0 *I assume 29, not 27 as in http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josip_...

Oct-29-10		brankat: Happy birthday Josip!

Oct-29-12		brankat: And once again: Happy Birthday!

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