Minić also served as a second to Svetozar Gligorić and Ljubomir Ljubojević, Yugoslavia's most prominent grandmasters.
Minić was found dead by friends in his Novi Sad apartment on April 9, 2005, after failing to respond to phone and intercom calls for several days.
Doctors determined that he died of a heart attack approximately four days earlier.
Minić was a virtuoso of the Sicilian Defence, which he played with great skill from either side of the board.
Here is a sharp tactical win over Yugoslav grandmaster Albin Planinc at the Vidmar Memorial tournament in 1973.