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 during the breakup of SFR Yugoslavia.

No.	Year	Location	Champion
1	1935	Belgrade	Vasja Pirc and Borislav Kostić[1][2]
2	1936	Novi Sad	Vasja Pirc (2)[3][4]
3	1937	Rogaška Slatina	Vasja Pirc (3) as Yugoslav champion, Miguel Najdorf as tournament champion[5][6][7]
4	1938	Ljubljana	Borislav Kostić (2)[8][9]
5	1939	Zagreb	Milan Vidmar[10][11][12][13]

No.	Year	Champion
1	1945	Petar Trifunović[14]
2	1946	Petar Trifunović (2)[15]
3	1947	Svetozar Gligorić Petar Trifunović (3)[16]
4	1948	Svetozar Gligorić (2) Vasja Pirc (4)[17]
5	1949	Svetozar Gligorić (3)[18]
6	1950	Svetozar Gligorić (4)[19]
7	1951	Braslav Rabar[20]
8	1952	Petar Trifunović (4)[21]
9	1953	Vasja Pirc (5)[22][23]
10	1955	Nikola Karaklajić[24]
11	1956	Svetozar Gligorić (5)[25]
12	1957	Svetozar Gligorić (6)[26]
13	1958	Svetozar Gligorić (7) Borislav Ivkov[27]
14	1959	Svetozar Gligorić (8)[28]
15	1960	Svetozar Gligorić (9)[29]
16	1961	Petar Trifunović (5)[30]
17	1962	Aleksandar Matanović Dragoljub Minić[31]
18	1963	Svetozar Gligorić (10)[32]
19	1964	Borislav Ivkov (2) Mijo Udovčić[33]
20	1965	Milan Matulović[34]
21	1966	Svetozar Gligorić (11)[35]
22	1967	Milan Matulović (2)[36]
23	1968	Predrag Ostojić Janez Stupica[37]
24	1969	Aleksandar Matanović (2)[38]
25	1970	Milan Vukić[39]
26	1971	Predrag Ostojić (2) Milan Vukić (2)[40]
27	1972	Borislav Ivkov (3)[41]
28	1973	Božidar Ivanović[32]
29	1974	Milan Vukić (3)[42]
30	1975	Dragoljub Velimirović[43]
31	1976	Krunoslav Hulak[44]
32	1977	Ljubomir Ljubojević Srđan Marangunić[45]
33	1978	Aleksandar Matanović (3)[46][47]
34	1979	Ivan Nemet[48]
35	1980	Predrag Nikolić[49]
36	1981	Božidar Ivanović (2)[50]
37	1982	Ljubomir Ljubojević (2)[51]
38	1983	Dušan Rajković[32]
39	1984	Predrag Nikolić (2)[52]
40	1985	Slavoljub Marjanović[53][54]
41	1986	Dragan Barlov[55]
42	1987	Miralem Dževlan[56]
43	1988	Ivan Sokolov[57]
44	1989	Zdenko Kožul[58][59]
45	1990	Zdenko Kožul (2)[60][61]
46	1991	Branko Damljanović[62]

Titles	Player	Years
11	Svetozar Gligorić	1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1963, 1966
5	Petar Trifunović	1945, 1946, 1947, 1952, 1961
	Vasja Pirc	1935, 1936, 1937, 1948, 1953
3	Borislav Ivkov	1958, 1964, 1972
	Aleksandar Matanović	1962, 1969, 1978
	Milan Vukić	1970, 1971, 1974
2	Boris Kostić	1935, 1938
	Milan Matulović	1965, 1967
	Predrag Ostojić	1968, 1971
	Božidar Ivanović	1973, 1981
	Ljubomir Ljubojević	1977, 1982
	Predrag Nikolić	1980, 1984
	Zdenko Kožul	1989, 1990

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.^[63]

No.	Year	Champion[64]
1	1947	Lidija Timofejeva
2	1948	Lidija Timofejeva (2)
3	1949	Lidija Timofejeva (3) Slava Cvenkl
4	1950	Vera Nedeljković
5	1951	Vera Nedeljković (2)
6	1952	Vera Nedeljković (3) Milunka Lazarević
7	1953	Vera Nedeljković (4)
8	1954	Milunka Lazarević (2)
9	1955	Marija Nađ-Radenković
10	1956	Milunka Lazarević (3)
11	1957	Milunka Lazarević (4)
12	1958	Vera Nedeljković (5)
13	1959	Ljubica Jocić
14	1960	Milunka Lazarević (5)
15	1961	Katarina Jovanović-Blagojević
16	1962	Milunka Lazarević (6)
17	1963	Milunka Lazarević (7)
18	1964	Tereza Štadler
19	1965	Vera Nedeljković (6)
20	1966	Milka Ljiljak
21	1968	Henrijeta Konarkowska-Sokolov
22	1969	Ružica Jovanović
23	1971/1	Henrijeta Konarkowska-Sokolov (2)
24	1971/10	Katarina Jovanović-Blagojević (2)
25	1973	Vlasta Kalchbrenner Tereza Štadler (2)
26	1974/4	Amalija Pihajlić
27	1974/12	Katarina Jovanović-Blagojević (3)
28	1975	Milunka Lazarević (8)
29	1976	Milunka Lazarević (9)
30	1977	Amalija Pihajlić (2) Gordana Marković
31	1978	Olivera Prokopović
32	1979	Milunka Lazarević (10)
33	1980	Vlasta Maček
34	1981	Gordana Marković (2)
35	1982	Milunka Lazarević (11)
36	1983	Marija Petrović Suzana Maksimović
37	1984	Marija Petrović (2)
38	1985	Zorica Nikolin
39	1986	Alisa Marić
40	1987	Zorica Nikolin (2)
41	1988	Vesna Bašagić
42	1989	Daniela Nutu-Gajić
43	1990	Jordanka Mićić
44	1991	Mirjana Marić Suzana Maksimović (2)

Titles	Player	Years
11	Milunka Lazarević	1952, 1954, 1956, 1957, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1975, 1976, 1979, 1982
6	Vera Nedeljković	1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1958, 1965
3	Katarina Jovanović-Blagojević	1961, 1971, 1974
	Lidija Timofejeva	1947, 1948, 1949
2	Henrijeta Konarkowska-Sokolov	1968, 1971
	Tereza Štadler	1964, 1973
	Amalija Pihajlić	1974, 1977
	Gordana Marković	1977, 1981
	Marija Petrović	1983, 1984
	Zorica Nikolin	1985, 1987
	Suzana Maksimović	1983, 1991

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