Yugoslav Chess Championship
The Yugoslav Chess Championship was an annual chess tournament held to determine the Yugoslav national champion and Yugoslavia's candidates for the World Chess Championship.
It was first played in 1935 in Belgrade, the capital of Kingdom of Yugoslavia and ended with its 46th iteration after the breakup of SFR Yugoslavia.
Winners list (men)
Kingdom of Yugoslavia
No. Year Location Champion 1 1935 Belgrade Borislav Kostić[1]2 1936 Novi Sad Vasja Pirc[2] 3 1937 Rogaška Slatina Vasja Pirc, Mieczysław Najdorf off contest[3] 4 1938 Ljubljana Borislav Kostić[4]5 1939 Zagreb Milan Vidmar[5]
SFR Yugoslavia
Winners list (women)
Kingdom of Yugoslavia
The first women's championship of Yugoslavia was held in Zagreb in August 1939, and was won by Lidija Timofejeva and Jovanka Petrović. A women's chess tournament had previously been held in Ljubljana in 1926, in which only players from Ljubljana participated, and Sava Šerbanova was the winner.[6]
SFR Yugoslavia
No. Year Champion[7] 1 1947 Lidija Timofejeva 2 1948 Lidija Timofejeva 3 1949 Lidija Timofejeva
Slava Cvenkl4 1950 Vera Nedeljković5 1951 Vera Nedeljković6 1952 Vera Nedeljković
Milunka Lazarević7 1953 Vera Nedeljković8 1954 Milunka Lazarević 9 1955 Marija Nađ-Radenković 10 1956 Milunka Lazarević 11 1957 Milunka Lazarević 12 1958 Vera Nedeljković13 1959 Ljubica Jocić14 1960 Milunka Lazarević 15 1961 Katarina Jovanović-Blagojević16 1962 Milunka Lazarević 17 1963 Milunka Lazarević 18 1964 Tereza Štadler 19 1965 Vera Nedeljković20 1966 Milka Ljiljak 21 1968 Henrijeta Konarkowska-Sokolov 22 1969 Ružica Jovanović23 1971/1 Henrijeta Konarkowska-Sokolov 24 1971/10 Katarina Jovanović-Blagojević25 1973 Vlasta Kalchbrenner
Tereza Štadler26 1974/4 Amalija Pihajlić 27 1974/12 Katarina Jovanović-Blagojević28 1975 Milunka Lazarević 29 1976 Milunka Lazarević 30 1977 Amalija Pihajlić
Gordana Marković31 1978 Olivera Prokopović 32 1979 Milunka Lazarević 33 1980 Vlasta Maček 34 1981 Gordana Marković 35 1982 Milunka Lazarević 36 1983 Marija Petrović
Suzana Maksimović37 1984 Marija Petrović 38 1985 Zorica Nikolin 39 1986 Alisa Marić 40 1987 Zorica Nikolin 41 1988 Vesna Bašagić42 1989 Daniela Nutu-Gajić43 1990 Jordanka Mićić 44 1991 Mirjana Marić
Suzana Maksimović
Notes
- ^ GER-ch 3rd Aachen 1935 Archived September 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ All-Union YM 1936 Archived December 8, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on February 8, 2007. Retrieved February 9, 2010.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ Muski sampionat YU za 2002 Archived August 6, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Aberdeen (Scottish Championship) 1939 Archived January 4, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Women Yugoslav Championship 1939". Perpetual Check. Retrieved 14 November 2023.
- ^ "Women Championship". Perpetual Check. Retrieved 14 November 2023.
References
- Golombek, Harry (1977), Golombek's Encyclopedia of Chess, Batsford, p. 349 (men's results from 1945 through 1976)
- https://web.archive.org/web/20070208092339/http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20070806233356/http://sah.vrsac.com/Aktuelno/Koviljaca.asp
- http://xoomer.alice.it/cserica/scacchi/storiascacchi/tornei/pagine/yugoslavia.htm
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- Results from TWIC: 2000, 2005, 2005, 2007, 2007, 2008