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About Josip Rukavina
- Josip Rukavina (born October 29, 1942) is a Croatian chess International Master.
- He played in the June 1973 Leningrad Interzonal tournament, intended to select a challenger to Bobby Fischer for the World Chess Championship 1975.
- Rukavina finished fifteenth out of eighteen players in total.
- Among his games in this tournament was one that he won against Viktor Korchnoi, who previously had a one-point lead, but subsequently ended up finishing the tournament tied with Anatoly Karpov.
- He also lost a game in the same tournament to Jan Smejkal.
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