The Most Famous
CHESS PLAYERS from Croatia
This page contains a list of the greatest Croatian Chess Players. The pantheon dataset contains 461 Chess Players, 2 of which were born in Croatia. This makes Croatia the birth place of the 38th most number of Chess Players behind Peru, and Vietnam.
Top 4
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Croatian Chess Players of all time. This list of famous Croatian Chess Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Mišo Cebalo (1945 - 2022)
With an HPI of 58.44, Mišo Cebalo is the most famous Croatian Chess Player. His biography has been translated into 17 different languages on wikipedia.
Mišo Cebalo (6 February 1945 – 2 September 2022) was a Croatian chess Grandmaster. He won the 19th World Senior Chess Championship at Condino 2009. In 2011 he was awarded the title of FIDE Senior Trainer.
2. Petar Trifunović (1910 - 1980)
With an HPI of 54.89, Petar Trifunović is the 2nd most famous Croatian Chess Player. His biography has been translated into 16 different languages.
Petar Trifunović (31 August 1910 – 8 December 1980) was a Yugoslav and Serbian chess player, who was awarded the international grandmaster title, and was a five-time Yugoslav champion.
3. Ivan Šarić (b. 1990)
With an HPI of 35.68, Ivan Šarić is the 3rd most famous Croatian Chess Player. His biography has been translated into 17 different languages.
Ivan Šarić (Croatian pronunciation: [ǐʋan ʃǎːritɕ]; born 17 August 1990) is a Croatian chess grandmaster. He earned his IM title in 2007, and his GM title in 2008. He won the Under-18 European Youth Chess Championship in 2007, and the Under-18 World Youth Chess Championship in 2008. In 2018 he won the European Individual Chess Championship in Batumi with a score of 8.5/11 points. He has also won the Croatian Chess Championship in 2009 and 2013, and holds a notable victory over Magnus Carlsen, achieved at the 2014 Chess Olympiad.
4. Duško Pavasovič (b. 1976)
With an HPI of 34.30, Duško Pavasovič is the 4th most famous Croatian Chess Player. His biography has been translated into 14 different languages.
Duško Pavasovič (born 15 October 1976) is a Slovenian chess player. He holds the title of Grandmaster, which FIDE awarded him in 1999. Pavasovič was born in Split, Croatia (then Yugoslavia), and later took Slovenian citizenship. He won the Slovenian Championships of 1999 and 2006. Pavasovič took the national champion title again in 2007, when he won the Vidmar Memorial in Ljubljana. In the same year he finished fourth in the European Individual Chess Championship with a performance rating of 2765. Pavasovič played for the Slovenian national team in the Chess Olympiad, European Team Chess Championship and Mitropa Cup.
People
Pantheon has 4 people classified as Croatian chess players born between 1910 and 1990. Of these 4, 2 (50.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Croatian chess players include Ivan Šarić, and Duško Pavasovič. The most famous deceased Croatian chess players include Mišo Cebalo, and Petar Trifunović. As of April 2024, 2 new Croatian chess players have been added to Pantheon including Ivan Šarić, and Duško Pavasovič.
