Krunoslav Hulak

Croatian chess player

Krunoslav Hulak
Krunoslav Hulak in 1977
Country	Yugoslavia → Croatia
Born	(1951-05-25)25 May 1951 Osijek, Yugoslavia
Died	23 October 2015(2015-10-23) (aged 64) Zagreb, Croatia
Title	Grandmaster (1976)
Peak rating	2570 (October 2002)

Krunoslav Hulak (25 May 1951 – 23 October 2015) was a Croatian-Yugoslavian chess player. He was awarded the International Master title in 1974, and the grandmaster title in 1976 by FIDE.^[1]

Career

Hulak won the Yugoslav Chess Championship in 1976 and the Croatian Chess Championship in 2005.^[2]

His other notable tournament performances have been:

Varna 1974 equal 1st
Lublin 1976 equal 2nd
Amsterdam IBM tournament 1977 2nd
Osijek 1980 equal 1st
Sombor 1980 equal 1st
Budva 1981 2nd
Banja Luka 1983 equal 1st
Zagreb 1985 2nd
Wijk aan Zee-B 1986 1st
Banja Luka 1987 equal 1st
Solin 2000 2nd

He played twice in the interzonal tournaments, finishing 11th at Toluca 1982 and 12th at Zagreb 1987.^[3]

Hulak played thrice for Yugoslavia (1982, 1986, 1990) and thrice for Croatia (1992, 1994, 1996) in the Chess Olympiad.^[4]

References

^ "Hulak, Krunoslav FIDE Chess Profile". ratings.fide.com. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2019-09-22.
^ TWIC 576: Croatian Championship. The Week in Chess. Retrieved 2019-09-22.
^ Welcome to the Chessmetrics site Archived April 14, 2006, at the Wayback Machine. Chessmetrics.com (2005-03-26). Retrieved on 2012-11-10.
^ Krunoslav Hulak team chess record at Olimpbase.org