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Vukcevich was born in Belgrade. In 1955 he won the Yugoslav Junior Championship, drawing a six game match with Bent Larsen in the same year. He became a chess International Master in 1958, and in 1960 played for Yugoslavia at the Chess Olympiad in Leipzig and had the second best overall score at the Student Chess Olympiad in Leningrad. In 1963 he moved to the United States, settling in Ohio. For other uses, see Belgrade (disambiguation). ... Bent Larsen Bent Larsen (born March 4, 1935) is a Danish chess player. ... Chess is an abstract strategy board game for two players. ... The title International Master is awarded to outstanding chess players by the world chess organization FIDE. The title is open to both men and women. ... Official language Macedonian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovenian Capital Belgrade Largest city Belgrade Area (1991)  - Total  - % water Ranked xxst 255,804 km² Negligible Population  - Total (2004)  - Density Ranked xxth 20,522,972 80/km² Currency Yugoslav dinar Time zone  - in summer CET (UTC+1) CEST (UTC+2) National anthem Hej, Sloveni/Slaveni... The Chess Olympiad is a chess event which has been officially organised by FIDE since 1927 and takes place every second year. ... (help· info) [] (Sorbian/Lusatian: Lipsk) is the largest city in the Federal State (Bundesland) of Saxony in Germany. ... Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and Petrograd (Петрогра́д, 1914–1924), is a city located in Northwestern Russia on the delta of the river Neva at the east end of the Gulf of Finland... Official language(s) None Capital Columbus Largest city Columbus (largest metropolitan area is Cleveland) Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 34th 44,825 square miles (116,096 square kilometers) LandArea = 40,986 square miles (106,154 square kilometers) WaterArea = 3,878 square miles (10,044 square kilometers) PCWater...

Vukcevich decided on a career in science rather than chess, and in the year he moved to the United States he entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He went on to teach at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio for six years before leaving to work for General Electric where from 1989 he was Chief Scientist. He was considered for a Nobel Prize in Chemistry and published two books on science. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is a university located in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. MIT is one of the worlds leading research institutions in science and technology, as well as in numerous other fields, including management, economics, mathematics, linguistics, political science, and philosophy. ... Case Western Reserve University is a private research university located in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. It was formed in 1967 by the federation of Case Institute of Technology (founded in 1880 by philanthropist Leonard Case Jr. ... Nickname: The Forest City Motto: Progress and Prosperity Official website: www. ... The General Electric Company, or GE (NYSE: GE) is a multinational technology and services company. ... This is a list of Nobel Prize laureates in Chemistry from 1901 to the present day. ...

Vukcevich continued to play chess. In 1969 he was joint winner of the U.S. Open chess tournament with Pal Benko and Arthur Bisguier and in 1975 he finished third in the U.S. Championship ahead of Samuel Reshevsky, Robert Byrne, Benko and Bisguier among others. From 1976 to 1979 he played in the National Telephone League, scoring 16.5 from 22 games, including wins against Yasser Seirawan, Nick De Firmian, Leonid Shamkovich and Bisguier. Pal Benko is a chess grandmaster, who was born July 15, 1928 in France, but was raised in Hungary. ... Arthur Bisguier, born 1929, is a US chess grandmaster. ... See also: U.S. Womens Chess Championship Winner list: 2005 Hikaru Nakamura 2004 Alexander Shabalov 2003 Alexander Shabalov 2002 Larry Christiansen 2000 Joel Benjamin / Alexander Shabalov / Yasser Seirawan 1999 Boris Gulko 1998 Nick de Firmian 1997 Joel Benjamin 1996 Alex Yermolinsky 1995 Nick de Firmian / Patrick Wolff / Alexander Ivanov... Samuel Herman (Sammy) Reshevsky (born November 26, 1911, Ozorkow, Poland - died April 4, 1992, New York, USA) was a leading American chess Grandmaster. ... Robert E. Byrne (born April 20, 1928) is a leading American chess player, who won the U.S. Championship in 1972. ... Yasser Seirawan Yasser Seirawan (born March 24, 1960) is a chess grandmaster and 4-time US-champion. ... Nick de Firmian (born July 26, 1957), is a chess grandmaster and three time U.S. chess champion, winning in 1987, 1995, and 1999. ... Leonid Shamkovich (June 1, 1923 - April 22, 2005) was a chess Grandmaster. ...

Vukcevich is better known as an author of chess problems than as a player, however, being the first American resident to be awarded the title of International Composition Grandmaster by FIDE. In 1981 he published Chess by Milan: Problems and Games of Dr. Milan R. Vukcevich and in 1998 was inducted into the US Chess Hall of Fame, becoming only the second person (after Sam Loyd) to be primarily inducted for their achievements in problem composition. Sam Loyd, London Era, 1861 Excelsior by Sam Loyd. ... The Fédération Internationale des Échecs or World Chess Federation is an international organization that connects the various national chess federations around the world. ... Samuel Loyd (January 31, 1841 - April 10, 1911) was an American puzzle author and recreational mathematician. ...

Vukcevich's compositions were gathered together in My Chess Compositions (2003). He composed in all genres, including directmates, selfmates, helpmates, problems with fairy pieces and a small number of endgame studies. A selfmate is a chess problem in which white, moving first, must force black to deliver checkmate within a specified number of moves against his will. ... Z. Maslar Die Schwalbe, 1981 Helpmate in eight moves. ... A fairy chess piece or unorthodox chess piece is a chess piece not used in conventional chess, but used in certain chess variants and some chess problems. ... An endgame study, or just study, is a composed chess position—that is, one that has been made up rather than one from an actual game—presented as a sort of puzzle, in which the aim of the solver is to find a way for White, moving first, to win...

Vukcevich died in 2003 in Cleveland. Milan's son Marko is a guitar player in the band Mushroomhead from Cleveland, OH. Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Mushroomhead is an eight person Nu-Metal / Alternative Metal band based in Cleveland, Ohio. ...

Further reading

• Milan Vukcevich (1981), Chess by Milan: Problems and Games of Dr. Milan R. Vukcevich. MIM Company, Burton, Ohio.
• Milan Vukcevich (2003), My Chess Compositions. Library of StrateGems, California.

External links

• "The Beauty of Bristol" - an essay by Vukcevich on the Bristol problem theme
• A biography and selection of Vukcevich's problems
• Biographical sketch by Edward J. Covington
• Obituary from cleveland.com
• The Week In Chess - issue 446 includes an obituary and Vukceivch's twenty-two previously unpublished games from the National Telephone League