Predrag Ostojic
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Predrag Ostojić was a Yugoslav 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...

 Grandmaster. He won the Yugoslav Chess Championship
Yugoslav Chess Championship
The Yugoslav Chess Championship is a tournament with great tradition, held to determine the national champion. It was a very strong event especially in the period 1945–1991, when it represented players from six federal republics, today independent countries....

 in 1968 and 1971.

Born in Kraljevo
Kraljevo
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, he won the title of International Master in 1962 and of Grandmaster in 1975.

Tournament victories include equal 1st at Vrnjačka Banja
Vrnjacka Banja
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 1975, 1st at Paris
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 1968, 1969 and 1970, San Juan 1971, Casablanca
Casablanca
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 1974, Hasselt
Hasselt
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 1974. Second places include Beverwijk
Corus chess tournament
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 1968, Olot
Olot
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 1974, Cleveland 1975.

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