Zvonko Vranesic

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Zvonko Vranesic (born 4 October 1938, Zagreb) a Croatian–Canadian chess master.

Vranesic won the Junior Championship of Yugoslavia in 1957. He immigrated to Canada in October 1958. He tied 1st place at the Canadian Championship 1969. Then, he represented Canada in the Interzonal at Amsterdam 1964, and took 24th place there.

He was also the Canadian representative in five Chess Olympiads.

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

Dr. Zvonko Vranesic now works as a professor at the University of Toronto. He was a co-developer (provided chess input) of Chute 1 (later Chute 1.2), a computer chess program which competed in the North American Computer Championships (1974–77) and World Computer Championship 1977.

Awarded the IM title in 1969, and the IMC title in 1973.