Dražen Sermek
Slovenian chess grandmaster (born 1969)
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Dražen Sermek (born 30 January 1969) is a Croatian chess player. He holds the title of Grandmaster, which FIDE awarded him in 1994. He previously competed for Slovenia.
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 30 January 1969 Osijek, Socialist Republic of Croatia, Yugoslavia |
| Chess career | |
| Country | Yugoslavia → Slovenia Croatia |
| Title | Grandmaster (1994) |
| FIDE rating | 2471 (October 2026) |
| Peak rating | 2603 (July 2002) |
| Peak ranking | No. 92 (July 2002) |
Sermek won the Slovenian Chess Championship in 1993 and 1998 and was a member of the Slovenian team in the Chess Olympiads of 1994, 2000, 2002, 2004 and 2006.[1]
He tied for 1st–4th with Michele Godena, Andrei Sokolov and Xie Jun at Cannes 1997.[2] In 2001 Sermek came first in the Pula Open.[3] In 2002, he won the New White Plus GM tournament in Dhaka.[4] In 2008, he tied for 3rd–7th places with Marat Dzhumaev, Darwin Laylo, Susanto Megaranto and Ashot Nadanian in the 5th Dato' Arthur Tan Malaysia Open Championship in Kuala Lumpur[5] and came first in the MCF GM Tournament, which was also held in Kuala Lumpur.[6]
