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.	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

No.	Year	Champion
1	1945	Petar Trifunović
2	1946	Petar Trifunović
3	1947	Petar Trifunović
4	1948	Svetozar Gligorić Vasja Pirc
5	1949	Svetozar Gligorić
6	1950	Svetozar Gligorić
7	1951	Braslav Rabar
8	1952	Petar Trifunović
9	1953	Vasja Pirc
10	1955	Nikola Karaklajić
11	1956	Svetozar Gligorić
12	1957	Svetozar Gligorić
13	1958	Svetozar Gligorić Borislav Ivkov
14	1959	Svetozar Gligorić
15	1960	Svetozar Gligorić
16	1961	Petar Trifunović
17	1962	Aleksandar Matanović Dragoljub Minić
18	1962	Svetozar Gligorić
19	1963	Borislav Ivkov Mijo Udovčić
20	1965	Milan Matulović
21	1965	Svetozar Gligorić
22	1967	Milan Matulović
23	1968	Predrag Ostojić Janez Stupica
24	1969	Aleksandar Matanović
25	1970	Dragoljub Velimirović Milan Vukić
26	1971	Predrag Ostojić Milan Vukić
27	1972	Borislav Ivkov
28	1973	Božidar Ivanović
29	1974	Milan Vukić
30	1975	Dragoljub Velimirović
31	1976	Krunoslav Hulak
32	1977	Ljubomir Ljubojević Srđan Marangunić
33	1978	Aleksandar Matanović
34	1979	Ivan Nemet
35	1980	Predrag Nikolić
36	1981	Božidar Ivanović
37	1982	Ljubomir Ljubojević
38	1983	Božidar Ivanović Dušan Rajković
39	1984	Predrag Nikolić
40	1985	Slavoljub Marjanović
41	1986	Dragan Barlov
42	1987	Miralem Dževlan
43	1988	Ivan Sokolov
44	1989	Zdenko Kožul
45	1990	Zdenko Kožul
46	1991	Branko 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.	Year	Champion[7]
1	1947	Lidija Timofejeva
2	1948	Lidija Timofejeva
3	1949	Lidija Timofejeva Slava Cvenkl
4	1950	Vera Nedeljković
5	1951	Vera Nedeljković
6	1952	Vera Nedeljković Milunka Lazarević
7	1953	Vera Nedeljković
8	1954	Milunka Lazarević
9	1955	Marija Nađ-Radenković
10	1956	Milunka Lazarević
11	1957	Milunka Lazarević
12	1958	Vera Nedeljković
13	1959	Ljubica Jocić
14	1960	Milunka Lazarević
15	1961	Katarina Jovanović-Blagojević
16	1962	Milunka Lazarević
17	1963	Milunka Lazarević
18	1964	Tereza Štadler
19	1965	Vera Nedeljković
20	1966	Milka Ljiljak
21	1968	Henrijeta Konarkowska-Sokolov
22	1969	Ružica Jovanović
23	1971/1	Henrijeta Konarkowska-Sokolov
24	1971/10	Katarina Jovanović-Blagojević
25	1973	Vlasta Kalchbrenner Tereza Štadler
26	1974/4	Amalija Pihajlić
27	1974/12	Katarina Jovanović-Blagojević
28	1975	Milunka Lazarević
29	1976	Milunka Lazarević
30	1977	Amalija Pihajlić Gordana Marković
31	1978	Olivera Prokopović
32	1979	Milunka Lazarević
33	1980	Vlasta Maček
34	1981	Gordana Marković
35	1982	Milunka Lazarević
36	1983	Marija Petrović Suzana Maksimović
37	1984	Marija Petrović
38	1985	Zorica Nikolin
39	1986	Alisa Marić
40	1987	Zorica Nikolin
41	1988	Vesna Bašagić
42	1989	Daniela Nutu-Gajić
43	1990	Jordanka Mićić
44	1991	Mirjana Marić Suzana Maksimović

Notes

1. GER-ch 3rd Aachen 1935 Archived September 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
2. All-Union YM 1936 Archived December 8, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
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. Muski sampionat YU za 2002 Archived August 6, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
5. Aberdeen (Scottish Championship) 1939 Archived January 4, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
6. "Women Yugoslav Championship 1939". Perpetual Check. Retrieved 14 November 2023.
7. "Women Championship". Perpetual Check. Retrieved 14 November 2023.

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
• Results from TWIC: 2000, 2005, 2005, 2007, 2007, 2008