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 Vasja Pirc and 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
Notes
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
- [1]
- Results from TWIC: 2000, 2005, 2005, 2007, 2007, 2008
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