GM Krunoslav Hulak died on October 23th after a short illness of lung cancer.
Krunoslav Hulak was born in Osijek on 25 May 1951.
He earned a grandmaster title in 1976 after becoming the champion of Yugoslavia.
In the cycle for the world championship he played twice in the Interzonal tournaments.
He was a longtime Croatian and former Yugoslavia national team member, and has played at six Olympiads and six European championships. With Yugolsavian team he took silver medal at the European Championships in Haifa in 1989.
In 2005 he won the Croatian national championship.
He worked as a trainer in Zagreb chess federation and later he also was a team captain of Croatian national team.
His other notable tournament performances have been:
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
In the extremely strong Belgrade Open 1989 1st
Solin 2000 2nd
He shared a big passion for blitz.
“Kruno” was very popular in chess circles and chess world suffered a great loss.
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