caption country peakrating birth_place title fideid birth_date image article_title name
kurajica -lrb- hoogovens , 1977 -rrb- bosnia and herzegovina 2595 -lrb- july 1995 -rrb- ljubljana , yugoslavia grandmaster 14400057 15 november 1947 bojan kurajica 1977.jpg bojan kurajica
 bojan kurajica
bojan kurajica

bojan kurajica -lrb- born 15 november 1947 in ljubljana , yugoslavia -rrb- is a bosnian chess grandmaster -lrb- gm -rrb- .
kurajica grew up in split .
he earned the international master -lrb- im -rrb- title in 1965 by winning the world junior championship .
he moved to zagreb in 1966 to study italian and english at the faculty of philosophy , graduating in 1972 .
kurajica was awarded the gm title in 1974 .
he played chess in zagreb until 1979 , when he relocated to sarajevo in order to play for Šk bosna .
he played for yugoslavia in chess olympiads at valletta 1980 -lrb- won team bronze medal -rrb- and thessaloniki 1984 .
one of his notable tournament successes was joint 3rd/4th place at the 1976 wijk aan zee .
after the collapse of yugoslavia , he represented bosnia and herzegovina eight times between 1992 and 2006 -lrb- won team silver medal at moscow 1994 -rrb- .
in december 2005 kurajica won the 13th salona tournament in solin .
in the same year he was awarded the title of fide trainer .
, he shares his residence between sarajevo and santa cruz de tenerife .
on the may 2010 fide list his elo rating is 2548 .
