Dr. Zvonko Vranesic
Number of games in database: 116
Years covered: 1961 to 1993
Last FIDE rating: 2320
Overall record: +24 -50 =42 (38.8%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:  Modern Benoni (13)      A79 A56 A73 A77 A70  King's Indian (8)      E80 E83 E77 E82  Nimzo Indian (7)      E41 E47 E54 E46 E42  Grunfeld (5)      D84 D94 D93 D82  Orthodox Defense (5)      D50 D51 D59  Old Benoni (4)      A43 A44	With the Black pieces:  Sicilian (24)      B43 B40 B21 B92 B42  Sicilian Kan (9)      B43 B42  Caro-Kann (5)      B18 B16 B14 B11 B12  Queen's Gambit Declined (4)      D31 D37 D35  Orthodox Defense (4)      D55 D50 D59

NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   B Berger vs Z Vranesic, 1964 0-1

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DR. ZVONKO VRANESIC (born Oct-04-1938) Croatia (citizen of Canada) [what is this?] An electrical engineering professor at U of Toronto and an IM, he represented Canada as high as 2nd board at 5 Olympiads (1964-6, 1970-2, and 1980, the most latter as captain), accumulating 41 points in 70 team games. He tied for 1st-2nd with Duncan Suttles (the latter won the play-off) in the 1969 Canadian Championship and assisted the Chute chess program build its dataset input. He was Ontario Champion in 1963. Also, in 1963, he won both the Ontario and Toronto Championships and repeated with wins of the Toronto City Championships in 1967, 1970 and 1972. References: (1) http://www.olimpbase.org/ , (2) Wikipedia article: Zvonko Vranesic

page 1 of 5; games 1-25 of 116  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. A Kalotay vs Z Vranesic 1-0 41 1961 CAN-ch A07 King's Indian Attack 2. Z Vranesic vs L Joyner   ½-½ 64 1961 CAN-ch D50 Queen's Gambit Declined 3. Z Vranesic vs G Fuster   1-0 74 1961 CAN-ch D02 Queen's Pawn Game 4. Suttles vs Z Vranesic   0-1 58 1961 CAN-ch B92 Sicilian, Najdorf, Opocensky Variation 5. Z Vranesic vs Yanofsky   ½-½ 45 1963 CAN-ch E80 King's Indian, Samisch Variation 6. Suttles vs Z Vranesic   ½-½ 25 1963 CAN-ch B92 Sicilian, Najdorf, Opocensky Variation 7. Z Vranesic vs Stein 0-1 34 1964 Amsterdam Interzonal E82 King's Indian, Samisch, double Fianchetto Variation 8. Z Vranesic vs I Bilek   ½-½ 36 1964 Amsterdam Interzonal A56 Benoni Defense 9. B Berger vs Z Vranesic   0-1 41 1964 Amsterdam Interzonal B43 Sicilian, Kan, 5.Nc3 10. Z Vranesic vs Foguelman   0-1 20 1964 Amsterdam Interzonal D82 Grunfeld, 4.Bf4 11. Z Vranesic vs Smyslov 0-1 60 1964 Amsterdam Interzonal E41 Nimzo-Indian 12. Z Vranesic vs S Schweber   ½-½ 30 1964 Tel aviv ol D25 Queen's Gambit Accepted 13. H Rossetto vs Z Vranesic   1-0 84 1964 Amsterdam Interzonal D02 Queen's Pawn Game 14. Z Vranesic vs Benko   ½-½ 46 1964 Amsterdam Interzonal D84 Grunfeld, Grunfeld Gambit Accepted 15. Z Vranesic vs Hort   0-1 33 1964 Tel Aviv A44 Old Benoni Defense 16. Tringov vs Z Vranesic   1-0 48 1964 Amsterdam Interzonal B40 Sicilian 17. Z Vranesic vs Portisch   0-1 35 1964 Amsterdam Interzonal E46 Nimzo-Indian 18. Tal vs Z Vranesic 1-0 30 1964 Amsterdam Interzonal B43 Sicilian, Kan, 5.Nc3 19. Doda vs Z Vranesic   ½-½ 44 1964 Tel aviv ol A14 English 20. Larry Evans vs Z Vranesic   ½-½ 30 1964 Amsterdam Interzonal D50 Queen's Gambit Declined 21. K Langeweg vs Z Vranesic   1-0 22 1964 Tel Aviv ol (Men) fin-A B43 Sicilian, Kan, 5.Nc3 22. F J Perez Perez vs Z Vranesic   1-0 34 1964 Amsterdam Interzonal E12 Queen's Indian 23. H Liebert vs Z Vranesic   ½-½ 41 1964 Tel aviv ol B18 Caro-Kann, Classical 24. Z Vranesic vs K Darga   ½-½ 33 1964 Amsterdam Interzonal E83 King's Indian, Samisch 25. Pachman vs Z Vranesic   ½-½ 30 1964 Amsterdam Interzonal D35 Queen's Gambit Declined  page 1 of 5; games 1-25 of 116

Jun-20-05    aw1988: Who is this? Very strong opposition. Jun-20-05    Resignation Trap: <chessgames.com> First, let us unify all of these players: Vranesic Zvonko = Vranesic Zvonko (CAN) = Vranesic = Z Vranesic = www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer... . Dr. Zvonko Vranesic was born October 4, 1938 in Zagreb, Croatia (then Yugoslavia). He won the Junior Championship of Yugoslavia in 1957. He immigrated to Canada in October 1958. He represented Canada in the Chess Olympiads of 1964, 1966, 1970, 1972 and 1980. He was also the Canadian representative at the 1964 Interzonal in Amsterdam. He was awarded the IM title in 1969. For a non-chess biography and a photograph, I suggest this: http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/DCS/Peopl... . Good background for his photo! IM Lawrence Day can undoubtedly tell you more about Vranesic than I can. See, for example, Lawrence's page and his post of June 29, 2004 (his page three). Jul-15-10    wordfunph: Vranesic finished second with 13/17 in 1969 Canadian Championship.. Jan-24-11    kevins55555: <Resignation Trap> They do not even exist.

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