GMMarin Bosiocic

Marin Bosiočić was born in Rijeka in 1988 and began taking chess seriously at five. He was among the early pupils of the city’s Junior chess club, founded in 1993. He later studied economics in Rijeka. Bosiočić won the Croatian under-17 championship in both 2004 and 2005. He became an international master in 2007 and a grandmaster the following year. In 2009 he won the Croatian blitz championship and played for the national team at the European team championship. He won the 2011 Split Open with eight points from nine games.