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A SHORT HISTORY OF CROATIAN CHESS
Chess in Croatia has been played for more than six centuries. That is a
fact, but there is a legend, too, witnessing to the deeper roots of the
king´s game in this area.
The legend says that the Croatian king Suronja, who ruled between 997
and 1.000, beat the Venetian doge in a chess contest for a number of
Croatian islands.
It reveals how the chess-board of 64 squares was introduced into the
coat of arms of the Croatian kings, to be reduced gradually to the red
and white inset of 25 squares we have today.
In 1950 the ninth men Olympiad was organised in Dubrovnik, in 1959 a
part of the Candidates tournament was played in Zagreb, the city of
Split acted as host to the second women Olympiad, the fourth Olympiad
for blind persons was held in Medulin in 1972. Apart from that, Pula
organized women zonal tournaments in 1985 and 1990, the interzonal was
played in Zagreb in 1987 and the men and women zonal tournament in
1993.