Career
3rd at Celje 1921, behind Stefan Erdélyi and Imre König
1st at Vienna 1921
3rd at Ramsgate 1929, behind Adolf Seitz and Árpád Vajda
He played for Yugoslavia on second board in the 1st Chess Olympiad at London 1927, posting a record of +7−6=2. Vuković edited the monthly chess magazine Šahovski Glasnik (Chess Journal), the official periodical of the Yugoslavian chess federation. He is the author of The Art of Attack in Chess (Oxford-London 1963), which is widely regarded as a classic of chess literature.
Other books he wrote include Razvoj šahovskih ideja (Zagreb 1928) and The Chess Sacrifice (London-New York 1968).
He also served as the vice-president of the Croatian Chess Federation. Vladimir Vuković was awarded the International Master (IM) title in 1951 and International Arbiter (Iowa) in 1952.
He died on November 18, 1975 in Zagreb and was buried at the Mirogoj Cemetery.