Lecturers

Rank: 2620
Highest rank: 2714 , 10th in the world
8-times Dutch champion
2-times European team champion ( 2001&2005)
European club champion 1999
3rd place World junior under 16 Innsbruck 1987
Quater Finalist World Cup Groningen 1997
Various nation club titles in The Netherlands, Germany, France, Spain, Iceland
Winner of various tournaments: Berliner Sommer 1991, Capablanca Memorial 1994, World Open 1994, Najdorf Buenos Aires 1995, New York Open 1996, Rubinstein Memorial 1999, Amsterdam open 2002, Foxwoods 2006, Chicago open 2010
Trainer of Kamsky in match with Karpov Elista 1996
Trainer of Topalov in Dortmund candidates 2002
Trainer of Kramnik in World Championships Mexico 2007 & Tal Memorial Moscow 2007
Trainer of many Dutch juniors through the years

Multiple cadet and junior Croatian champion, Individual Champion in 2015
Grandmaster from 2006, career high ELO rating 2593
Winner of several Open and robin tournaments, team cups and rapid tournaments
Multiple representative of the Croatian National Team
With Croatian National Team in European Team Championship 2017 shared 3rd place
Head Coach of the Croatian delegation in the World Youth Championship in South Africa 2014 and Greece 2015
Author of more then 70 articles in ”Sahovski glasnik” – Croatian Chess Federation monthly chess magazine with tradition for almost 100 years (starting from 1925) with the role of Editor-in-Chief 2015-2018.
Co-author of the opening book ”The Richter-Rauzer Reborn” – Thinkers Publishing 2014 with the updated edition in 2019
Author of the book “ The Grandmaster Mindset“ released in 2020
Guest Lecturer at the Grensboro US Chess Master 2013
Contributor of FIDE Trainers’ Commission surveys 2015
Author in New In Chess Yearbooks
Lecturer at FIDE and European Chess Union trainers seminars