Borki Predojević
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| Country |
FR Yugoslavia Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Born |
6 April 1987 Teslić, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia |
| Title | Grandmaster |
| FIDE rating | 2611 (March 2017) |
| Peak rating | 2655 (May 2016) |
Borki Predojević (Serbian Cyrillic: Борки Предојевић; born 6 April 1987 in Teslić) is a Bosnian chess grandmaster and the youngest ever from this country. He is the top ranked player of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Borki Predojević was born on 6 April 1987 in Teslić, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia (now Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina) to father Borislav Predojević, who is also a chess player and administrator, and mother Živana. He has a sister named Božana.
Borki first started to play chess in the local club Teslić in 1995, and is one of the founders of chess club Mladost, also in Teslić, in 1998.
Predojević was European Champion U-12 in 1999 and U-14 in 2001 representing FR Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro). He was also Cadet Champion of FR Yugoslavia in 1998, 1999 and 2001. In 2003 he transferred federations from FR Yugoslavia to Bosnia and Herzegovina, and won the World U-16 Championship. Predojević earned the Grandmaster title with his performance at the 2004 Olympiad where he made his third required norm. He won the 2009 Acropolis International chess tournament in Athens, and in the same year he shared second place with Wang Hao in the 39th Bosna International Tournament, a six-player double round-robin event in Sarajevo. In the 2011 edition, held with the Swiss system, he tied for 2nd-4th with Hrant Melkumyan and Mircea Pârligras. On 28 and 29 June 2013, he played a friendly four-game rapid match with world No. 1 player Magnus Carlsen in Lillehammer, losing by 1.5-2.5 after three draws and one loss.
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