Vladimir Vuković (26 August 1898, Zagreb – 18 November 1975, Zagreb) was a Croatian Jewish[1][2] chess writer, theoretician, player, arbiter, and journalist.
[3] Included in Vuković's tournament record achievements:[4] He played for Yugoslavia on second board in the 1st Chess Olympiad at London 1927, posting a record of +7−6=2.
[10][11][12] Other books he wrote include Razvoj šahovskih ideja [The development of chess ideas] (Zagreb 1928) and The Chess Sacrifice (London-New York 1968).
It involves checkmating the enemy king with a rook in front of it while a knight blocks off the adjacent escape squares.
[13] Vuković died on November 18, 1975, in Zagreb and was buried at the Mirogoj Cemetery.