Borki Predojević

Borki Predojević was born in Teslić in 1987 into a chess family; his father, Borislav, is a chess player and administrator. He was an outstanding junior, winning the European U-12 (1999) and U-14 (2001) titles and the World U-16 Championship in 2003.

In 2005 he became the youngest grandmaster in the history of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He represented his country at five Olympiads, producing a 2745 performance on board two at Dresden 2008, won the 2009 Acropolis International in Athens and reached a peak rating of 2655 in 2016.

He is also known as an analyst and author: after his Serbian-language book Moje stvaralaštvo (2010), he co-wrote seven volumes of the Chess Evolution series (2011–2013), an opening-preparation series aimed at strong players.