Olympian and Canadian Champion
Zugic was first selected for the Canadian Chess Olympiad team in 2000, and has made the team twice more since. Here are his results playing in this championship: 2000: Istanbul, board 3, 5/9, +3 =4 -2; 2004: Calvià , board 4, 4/10, +2 =4 -4; 2006: Turin, board 3, 5/9, +3 =4 -2. So far his combined results for Canada are: +8 =12 -8, for 50 per cent.
Zugic won the Closed Zonal Canadian Chess Championship at Toronto 2006 with 7/9, and represented Canada in the 2007 World Championship, losing his first-round match to Michael Adams by 0.5-1.5. His Canadian rating as of May 2007 was 2553, and his International FIDE rating is 2481. The site chessgames.com has 106 of his games, the site chessbase.com has 342 of his games, and the site mychess.com has 320 of his games; many of these games would be duplicated between sites. There is a photo of him at bidmonfa.com.
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