Mladen Šubarić is a Croatian chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 master.

In 1939 he tied for 3rd-4th in Zagreb (Svetozar Gligorić

Svetozar Gligoric

Svetozar Gligorić is a Serbian chess grandmaster. He won the championship of Yugoslavia a record twelve times, and is considered the best player ever from Serbia...

 won). In December 1941, he played at fourth board against dr Pazman (2 : 0) in a match Croatia – Slovakia in Zagreb. Šubarić took 9th at Munich 1942 (European Individual Chess Championship, Wertungsturnier – Qualification Tournament, Gösta Danielsson

Gösta Danielsson

Gösta Erik Vilhelm Danielsson was a Swedish chess master.He took 4th at Stockholm 1934 , tied for 3rd-4th at Falun 1934 , tied for 3rd-4th, behind Paul Felix Schmidt and Paul Keres, at Tallinn 1935, and won at Göteborg 1935 .In September 1935, he...

 won).

After World War II

World War II

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, he played several times in Yugoslav Chess Championship

Yugoslav Chess Championship

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. In 1945 he tied for 12-16th in Novi Sad (Petar Trifunović

Petar Trifunovic

Dr. Petar Trifunović was an International Grandmaster and Serbian Champion of chess...

 won).
In 1946 he tied for 14-16th in Zagreb (Trifunović won). In 1948, he tied for 17-18th in Belgrade (Gligorić and Vasja Pirc

Vasja Pirc

Vasja Pirc was a leading Slovenian chess player. His name is most familiar to contemporary players as the originator of the hypermodern Pirc Defense...

 won).

In other tournaments, he won ahead of Mijo Udovčić

Mijo Udovčić

Mijo Udovčić was a Yugoslavian chess player, who became the first Croatian Grandmaster in 1962. Jointly with Borislav Ivkov, he won the Yugoslav championships in 1963.-Background:...

 at Zagreb 1948, and took 2nd, behind Braslav Rabar

Braslav Rabar

Braslav Rabar was a Croatian chess International Master and chess writer. He was Yugoslav champion in 1951, and in 1953 again tied for the tournament lead, but lost a playoff match. He played for Yugoslavia in three chess Olympiads , winning a total of five medals...

, at Zagreb 1950 (CRO-ch).

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