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Nenad Petrović (chess)
Nenad Petrović is the name of: * Nenad Petrović (writer) (1925–2014), Serbian writer * Nenad Petrović (chess composer) Nenad Petrović, (September 7, 1907, in Zagreb, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia-Dalmatia, Austria-Hungary (now Croatia) – November 9, 1989, in Zagreb, Socialist Republic of Croatia, Yugoslavia) was a Croatian chess problemist. Chess career Nenad ... (1907–1989), Croatian chess problemist * Nenad Petrović (water polo) (born 1977), Macedonian water polo player {{Hndis, Petrovic, Nenad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nenad Petrović (writer)
Nenad Petrović ( Serbian Cyrillic: Ненад Петровић) (Zagreb, 30 May 1925 – London, 21 March 2014) was a Serbian writer, and one of numerous displaced persons after World War II and revolution in Yugoslavia. Life Petrović was born in 1925 in Zagreb and graduated from Belgrade's Grande école (Velika škola) in 1944, when he joined the national resistance movement, General Dragoljub Mihailović's loyal Chetniks, while under Axis occupation. After withdrawing through Sandzak and Bosnia in 1944 and 1945, he became an interpreter for the Yugoslav units serving the British Army in Italy and Germany. In 1947, he came to Great Britain as a Displaced Person and first worked as a farm hand and later as an employee in an industrial concern. He studied Political Economy in London. Petrović was active in the association ''Oslobodjenje'' (Liberation) and was a member of the editorial board of the publication, ''Naša Reć'' (Our Word) from 1958 and of the editorial board of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nenad Petrović (chess Composer)
Nenad Petrović, (September 7, 1907, in Zagreb, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia-Dalmatia, Austria-Hungary (now Croatia) – November 9, 1989, in Zagreb, Socialist Republic of Croatia, Yugoslavia) was a Croatian chess problemist. Chess career Nenad Petrović was the first Croatian Grandmaster of chess composition and World Champion in 1947 in the solving of chess problems. In 1951, he started the chess problem magazine ''Problem'' which in 1952 became the official organ of the Permanent Commission for Chess Composition of FIDE (PCCC). Petrović was the creator of the "Codex of chess composition", the starter and editor of 13 volumes of FIDE Albums, containing the best compositions from the period 1914–82. From 1956, he was the vice-president, and from 1958 the president of PCCC. He organized the first World Congress of Chess Composition in Piran, 1958. In 1974, Petrović was made an honorary lifelong president of PCCC. As a composer, he published some 650 problems, of which 121 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |