Udovcic Mijo (11.09.1920 – 08.04.1984)

Croatian Grandmaster (1962), judge and lawyer. Played 14 times in the Yugoslavian Championships with the best success of a shared first-second place with Ivkov in 1963. Best results in the international tournaments: Porec 1951, 1^st; Zagreb and Vukovar 1954, 1^st; Ljubljana 1955, 3^rd; Split 1960, 1^st; Dortmund 1961, 2^nd-3^rd; Berlin 1962, 2^nd-3^rd;Zagreb 1969, 1^st . He has participated in the 1964 Olympiad and the 1961 European Team Championship. He is quoted as saying: “It is better to have a row of zeroes in the tournament table followed by two or three brilliant victories than a series of boring draws.”