Yugoslav_Chess_Championship

Yugoslav Chess Championship

Yugoslav Chess Championship

Annual chess tournament

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

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SFR Yugoslavia

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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

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Notes

  1. [1]
    GER-ch 3rd Aachen 1935 Archived September 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  2. [2]
    All-Union YM 1936 Archived December 8, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  3. [3]
    "Archived copy". Archived from the original on February 8, 2007. Retrieved February 9, 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. [4]
    Muski sampionat YU za 2002 Archived August 6, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  5. [5]
    Aberdeen (Scottish Championship) 1939 Archived January 4, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  6. [6]
    "Women Yugoslav Championship 1939". Perpetual Check. Retrieved 14 November 2023.
  7. [7]
    "Women Championship". Perpetual Check. Retrieved 14 November 2023.

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