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.YearLocationChampion
11935BelgradeVasja Pirc and Borislav Kostić[1]
21936Novi SadVasja Pirc[2]
31937Rogaška SlatinaVasja Pirc, Mieczysław Najdorf off contest[3]
41938LjubljanaBorislav Kostić[4]
51939ZagrebMilan Vidmar[5]

SFR Yugoslavia

No.YearChampion
11945Petar Trifunović
21946Petar Trifunović
31947Petar Trifunović
41948Svetozar Gligorić
Vasja Pirc
51949Svetozar Gligorić
61950Svetozar Gligorić
71951Braslav Rabar
81952Petar Trifunović
91953Vasja Pirc
101955Nikola Karaklajić
111956Svetozar Gligorić
121957Svetozar Gligorić
131958Svetozar Gligorić
Borislav Ivkov
141959Svetozar Gligorić
151960Svetozar Gligorić
161961Petar Trifunović
171962Aleksandar Matanović
Dragoljub Minić
181962Svetozar Gligorić
191963Borislav Ivkov
Mijo Udovčić
201965Milan Matulović
211965Svetozar Gligorić
221967Milan Matulović
231968Predrag Ostojić
Janez Stupica
241969Aleksandar Matanović
251970Dragoljub Velimirović
Milan Vukić
261971Predrag Ostojić
Milan Vukić
271972Borislav Ivkov
281973Božidar Ivanović
291974Milan Vukić
301975Dragoljub Velimirović
311976Krunoslav Hulak
321977Ljubomir Ljubojević
Srđan Marangunić
331978Aleksandar Matanović
341979Ivan Nemet
351980Predrag Nikolić
361981Božidar Ivanović
371982Ljubomir Ljubojević
381983Božidar Ivanović
Dušan Rajković
391984Predrag Nikolić
401985Slavoljub Marjanović
411986Dragan Barlov
421987Miralem Dževlan
431988Ivan Sokolov
441989Zdenko Kožul
451990Zdenko Kožul
461991Branko Damljanović

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.YearChampion[7]
11947Lidija Timofejeva
21948Lidija Timofejeva
31949Lidija Timofejeva
Slava Cvenkl
41950Vera Nedeljković
51951Vera Nedeljković
61952Vera Nedeljković
Milunka Lazarević
71953Vera Nedeljković
81954Milunka Lazarević
91955Marija Nađ-Radenković
101956Milunka Lazarević
111957Milunka Lazarević
121958Vera Nedeljković
131959Ljubica Jocić
141960Milunka Lazarević
151961Katarina Jovanović-Blagojević
161962Milunka Lazarević
171963Milunka Lazarević
181964Tereza Štadler
191965Vera Nedeljković
201966Milka Ljiljak
211968Henrijeta Konarkowska-Sokolov
221969Ružica Jovanović
231971/1Henrijeta Konarkowska-Sokolov
241971/10Katarina Jovanović-Blagojević
251973Vlasta Kalchbrenner
Tereza Štadler
261974/4Amalija Pihajlić
271974/12Katarina Jovanović-Blagojević
281975Milunka Lazarević
291976Milunka Lazarević
301977Amalija Pihajlić
Gordana Marković
311978Olivera Prokopović
321979Milunka Lazarević
331980Vlasta Maček
341981Gordana Marković
351982Milunka Lazarević
361983Marija Petrović
Suzana Maksimović
371984Marija Petrović
381985Zorica Nikolin
391986Alisa Marić
401987Zorica Nikolin
411988Vesna Bašagić
421989Daniela Nutu-Gajić
431990Jordanka Mićić
441991Mirjana Marić
Suzana Maksimović

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