He graduated in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto, earning bachelor and doctoral degrees.
[4] Vranesic placed 2nd, to GM Pal Benko, at the 1964 Canadian Open Chess Championship.
[10] One noteworthy Olympiad win came in 1964 at Tel Aviv, when he defeated the Soviet champion GM Leonid Stein.
[12] He also served as the captain of the 1980 Canadian team,[13] which attained Canada's second-best result to date, ninth place on tiebreak.
Dr. Zvonko Vranesic is Professor Emeritus, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto.