GMZdenko Kozul

Zdenko Kožul was born in Bihać in 1966. He became a grandmaster in 1989 and won consecutive Yugoslav championships in 1989 and 1990. He helped Yugoslavia win bronze at the 1990 Olympiad. After representing Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992, he settled in Croatia in 1993 and began playing for its national team.

Kožul reached the last sixteen of the 2004 FIDE World Championship before losing to Veselin Topalov. He won the 2006 European Individual Championship and the Croatian championship in 2006 and 2015. His later results included winning the 2012 Zagreb Open and sharing first at the 2017 Grenke Open. With Alojzije Janković, he wrote The Richter Rauzer Reborn, examining a Sicilian Defence variation associated with his own play.