Yugoslav Chess Championship
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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 during the breakup of SFR Yugoslavia.
Winners list (men)
Kingdom of Yugoslavia
No. Year Location Champion 1 1935 Belgrade Vasja Pirc and Borislav Kostić 2 1936 Novi Sad Vasja Pirc (2) 3 1937 Rogaška Slatina Vasja Pirc (3) as Yugoslav champion, Miguel Najdorf as tournament champion 4 1938 Ljubljana Borislav Kostić (2) 5 1939 Zagreb Milan Vidmar
SFR Yugoslavia
No. Year Champion 1 1945 Petar Trifunović 2 1946 Petar Trifunović (2) 3 1947 Svetozar Gligorić Petar Trifunović (3) 4 1948 Svetozar Gligorić (2) Vasja Pirc (4) 5 1949 Svetozar Gligorić (3) 6 1950 Svetozar Gligorić (4) 7 1951 Braslav Rabar 8 1952 Petar Trifunović (4) 9 1953 Vasja Pirc (5) 10 1955 Nikola Karaklajić 11 1956 Svetozar Gligorić (5) 12 1957 Svetozar Gligorić (6) 13 1958 Svetozar Gligorić (7) Borislav Ivkov 14 1959 Svetozar Gligorić (8) 15 1960 Svetozar Gligorić (9) 16 1961 Petar Trifunović (5) 17 1962 Aleksandar Matanović Dragoljub Minić 18 1963 Svetozar Gligorić (10) 19 1964 Borislav Ivkov (2) Mijo Udovčić 20 1965 Milan Matulović 21 1966 Svetozar Gligorić (11) 22 1967 Milan Matulović (2) 23 1968 Predrag Ostojić Janez Stupica 24 1969 Aleksandar Matanović (2) 25 1970 Milan Vukić 26 1971 Predrag Ostojić (2) Milan Vukić (2) 27 1972 Borislav Ivkov (3) 28 1973 Božidar Ivanović 29 1974 Milan Vukić (3) 30 1975 Dragoljub Velimirović 31 1976 Krunoslav Hulak 32 1977 Ljubomir Ljubojević Srđan Marangunić 33 1978 Aleksandar Matanović (3) 34 1979 Ivan Nemet 35 1980 Predrag Nikolić 36 1981 Božidar Ivanović (2) 37 1982 Ljubomir Ljubojević (2) 38 1983 Dušan Rajković 39 1984 Predrag Nikolić (2) 40 1985 Slavoljub Marjanović 41 1986 Dragan Barlov 42 1987 Miralem Dževlan 43 1988 Ivan Sokolov 44 1989 Zdenko Kožul 45 1990 Zdenko Kožul (2) 46 1991 Branko Damljanović
Multiple-time winners
| Titles | Player | Years |
|---|---|---|
| 11 | Svetozar Gligorić | 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1963, 1966 |
| 5 | Petar Trifunović | 1945, 1946, 1947, 1952, 1961 |
| Vasja Pirc | 1935, 1936, 1937, 1948, 1953 | |
| 3 | Borislav Ivkov | 1958, 1964, 1972 |
| Aleksandar Matanović | 1962, 1969, 1978 | |
| Milan Vukić | 1970, 1971, 1974 | |
| 2 | Boris Kostić | 1935, 1938 |
| Milan Matulović | 1965, 1967 | |
| Predrag Ostojić | 1968, 1971 | |
| Božidar Ivanović | 1973, 1981 | |
| Ljubomir Ljubojević | 1977, 1982 | |
| Predrag Nikolić | 1980, 1984 | |
| Zdenko Kožul | 1989, 1990 |
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.
SFR Yugoslavia
No. Year Champion 1 1947 Lidija Timofejeva 2 1948 Lidija Timofejeva (2) 3 1949 Lidija Timofejeva (3) Slava Cvenkl 4 1950 Vera Nedeljković 5 1951 Vera Nedeljković (2) 6 1952 Vera Nedeljković (3) Milunka Lazarević 7 1953 Vera Nedeljković (4) 8 1954 Milunka Lazarević (2) 9 1955 Marija Nađ-Radenković 10 1956 Milunka Lazarević (3) 11 1957 Milunka Lazarević (4) 12 1958 Vera Nedeljković (5) 13 1959 Ljubica Jocić 14 1960 Milunka Lazarević (5) 15 1961 Katarina Jovanović-Blagojević 16 1962 Milunka Lazarević (6) 17 1963 Milunka Lazarević (7) 18 1964 Tereza Štadler 19 1965 Vera Nedeljković (6) 20 1966 Milka Ljiljak 21 1968 Henrijeta Konarkowska-Sokolov 22 1969 Ružica Jovanović 23 1971/1 Henrijeta Konarkowska-Sokolov (2) 24 1971/10 Katarina Jovanović-Blagojević (2) 25 1973 Vlasta Kalchbrenner Tereza Štadler (2) 26 1974/4 Amalija Pihajlić 27 1974/12 Katarina Jovanović-Blagojević (3) 28 1975 Milunka Lazarević (8) 29 1976 Milunka Lazarević (9) 30 1977 Amalija Pihajlić (2) Gordana Marković 31 1978 Olivera Prokopović 32 1979 Milunka Lazarević (10) 33 1980 Vlasta Maček 34 1981 Gordana Marković (2) 35 1982 Milunka Lazarević (11) 36 1983 Marija Petrović Suzana Maksimović 37 1984 Marija Petrović (2) 38 1985 Zorica Nikolin 39 1986 Alisa Marić 40 1987 Zorica Nikolin (2) 41 1988 Vesna Bašagić 42 1989 Daniela Nutu-Gajić 43 1990 Jordanka Mićić 44 1991 Mirjana Marić Suzana Maksimović (2)
Multiple-time winners
| Titles | Player | Years |
|---|---|---|
| 11 | Milunka Lazarević | 1952, 1954, 1956, 1957, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1975, 1976, 1979, 1982 |
| 6 | Vera Nedeljković | 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1958, 1965 |
| 3 | Katarina Jovanović-Blagojević | 1961, 1971, 1974 |
| Lidija Timofejeva | 1947, 1948, 1949 | |
| 2 | Henrijeta Konarkowska-Sokolov | 1968, 1971 |
| Tereza Štadler | 1964, 1973 | |
| Vlasta Maček | 1973, 1980 | |
| Amalija Pihajlić | 1974, 1977 | |
| Gordana Marković | 1977, 1981 | |
| Marija Petrović | 1983, 1984 | |
| Zorica Nikolin | 1985, 1987 | |
| Suzana Maksimović | 1983, 1991 |
Notes
- Golombek, Harry (1977), Golombek's Encyclopedia of Chess, Batsford, p. 349 (men's results from 1945 through 1976)
- 2008-01-22 at the Wayback Machine
- Results from TWIC: , , [permanent dead link], , ,