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.

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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
11935 Belgrade Vasja Pirc and Borislav Kostić [1] [2]
21936 Novi Sad Vasja Pirc (2) [3] [4]
31937 Rogaška Slatina Vasja Pirc (3), Mieczysław Najdorf off contest [5] [6] [7]
41938 Ljubljana Borislav Kostić (2) [8] [9]
51939 Zagreb Milan Vidmar [10] [11] [12]

SFR Yugoslavia

No.YearChampion
1 1945 Petar Trifunović [13]
2 1946 Petar Trifunović (2) [14]
3 1947 Svetozar Gligorić
Petar Trifunović (3) [15]
4 1948 Svetozar Gligorić (2)
Vasja Pirc (4) [16]
5 1949 Svetozar Gligorić (3) [17]
6 1950 Svetozar Gligorić (4) [18]
7 1951 Braslav Rabar [19]
8 1952 Petar Trifunović (4) [20]
9 1953 Vasja Pirc (5) [21] [22]
10 1955 Nikola Karaklajić [23]
111956 Svetozar Gligorić (5) [24]
121957 Svetozar Gligorić (6) [25]
131958 Svetozar Gligorić (7)
Borislav Ivkov [26]
141959 Svetozar Gligorić (8) [27]
151960 Svetozar Gligorić (9) [28]
161961 Petar Trifunović (5) [29]
171962 Aleksandar Matanović
Dragoljub Minić [30]
181963 Svetozar Gligorić (10) [31]
191964 Borislav Ivkov (2)
Mijo Udovčić [32]
201965 Milan Matulović [33]
211966 Svetozar Gligorić (11) [34]
221967 Milan Matulović (2) [35]
231968 Predrag Ostojić
Janez Stupica [36]
241969 Aleksandar Matanović (2) [37]
251970 Dragoljub Velimirović
Milan Vukić [38]
261971 Predrag Ostojić (2)
Milan Vukić (2) [39]
271972 Borislav Ivkov (3) [40]
281973 Božidar Ivanović [31]
291974 Milan Vukić (3) [41]
301975 Dragoljub Velimirović (2) [42]
311976 Krunoslav Hulak [43]
321977 Ljubomir Ljubojević
Srđan Marangunić [44]
331978 Aleksandar Matanović (3) [45] [46]
341979 Ivan Nemet [47]
351980 Predrag Nikolić [48]
361981 Božidar Ivanović (2) [49]
371982 Ljubomir Ljubojević (2) [50]
381983 Dušan Rajković [31]
391984 Predrag Nikolić (2) [51]
401985 Slavoljub Marjanović [52] [53]
411986 Dragan Barlov [54]
421987 Miralem Dževlan [55]
431988 Ivan Sokolov [56]
441989 Zdenko Kožul [57] [58]
451990 Zdenko Kožul (2) [59] [60]
461991 Branko Damljanović [61]

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. [62]

SFR Yugoslavia

No.YearChampion [63]
11947 Lidija Timofejeva
21948 Lidija Timofejeva
31949 Lidija Timofejeva
Slava Cvenkl
41950 Vera Nedeljković
51951 Vera Nedeljković
61952 Vera Nedeljković
Milunka Lazarević
71953 Vera Nedeljković
81954 Milunka Lazarević
91955 Marija Nađ-Radenković
101956 Milunka Lazarević
111957 Milunka Lazarević
121958 Vera Nedeljković
131959 Ljubica Jocić
141960 Milunka Lazarević
151961 Katarina Jovanović-Blagojević
161962 Milunka Lazarević
171963 Milunka Lazarević
181964 Tereza Štadler
191965 Vera Nedeljković
201966 Milka Ljiljak
211968 Henrijeta Konarkowska-Sokolov
221969 Ružica Jovanović
231971/1 Henrijeta Konarkowska-Sokolov
241971/10 Katarina Jovanović-Blagojević
251973 Vlasta Kalchbrenner
Tereza Štadler
261974/4 Amalija Pihajlić
271974/12 Katarina Jovanović-Blagojević
281975 Milunka Lazarević
291976 Milunka Lazarević
301977 Amalija Pihajlić
Gordana Marković
311978 Olivera Prokopović
321979 Milunka Lazarević
331980 Vlasta Maček
341981 Gordana Marković
351982 Milunka Lazarević
361983 Marija Petrović
Suzana Maksimović
371984 Marija Petrović
381985 Zorica Nikolin
391986 Alisa Marić
401987 Zorica Nikolin
411988 Vesna Bašagić
421989 Daniela Nutu-Gajić
431990 Jordanka Mićić
441991 Mirjana Marić
Suzana Maksimović

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