Zvonko Vranesic - Olympiads

Olympiads

He represented Canada at five Chess Olympiads. Here are his detailed results:

• In 1964, he played at third board at 16th Chess Olympiad in Tel Aviv (+4 –6 =5).
• In 1966, he played at second board at 17th Chess Olympiad in Havana (+6 –2 =9).
• In 1970, he played at third board at 19th Chess Olympiad in Siegen (+7 –4 =5).
• In 1972, he played at third board at 20th Chess Olympiad in Skopje (+4 –0 =10).
• In 1980, he played at first reserve board at 24th Chess Olympiad in La Valletta (+4 –1 =3).

His totals in Olympiad play for Canada are (+25 -13 =32), for 58.6 per cent.

One noteworthy Olympiad win came in 1964 at Tel Aviv, when he defeated the Soviet champion GM Leonid Stein. In 1970, he scored a Grandmaster norm (a performance rating of over 2600) at Siegen; this would be his best career performance. He also served as the captain of the 1980 Canadian team, which attained Canada's second-best result to date, ninth place on tiebreak. Vranesic played chess at a high level, but was never a professional player. He earned the title of International Master of Correspondence Chess (IMC) in 1973. He has been virtually retired from serious chess competition since the mid 1990s.