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.

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.

Winners list (men)

Kingdom of Yugoslavia

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SFR Yugoslavia

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No.YearChampion
11945Petar Trifunović[14]
21946Petar Trifunović (2)[15]
31947Svetozar Gligorić
Petar Trifunović (3)[16]
41948Svetozar Gligorić (2)
Vasja Pirc (4)[17]
51949Svetozar Gligorić (3)[18]
61950Svetozar Gligorić (4)[19]
71951Braslav Rabar[20]
81952Petar Trifunović (4)[21]
91953Vasja Pirc (5)[22][23]
101955Nikola Karaklajić[24]
111956Svetozar Gligorić (5)[25]
121957Svetozar Gligorić (6)[26]
131958Svetozar Gligorić (7)
Borislav Ivkov[27]
141959Svetozar Gligorić (8)[28]
151960Svetozar Gligorić (9)[29]
161961Petar Trifunović (5)[30]
171962Aleksandar Matanović
Dragoljub Minić[31]
181963Svetozar Gligorić (10)[32]
191964Borislav Ivkov (2)
Mijo Udovčić[33]
201965Milan Matulović[34]
211966Svetozar Gligorić (11)[35]
221967Milan Matulović (2)[36]
231968Predrag Ostojić
Janez Stupica[37]
241969Aleksandar Matanović (2)[38]
251970Milan Vukić[39]
261971Predrag Ostojić (2)
Milan Vukić (2)[40]
271972Borislav Ivkov (3)[41]
281973Božidar Ivanović[32]
291974Milan Vukić (3)[42]
301975Dragoljub Velimirović[43]
311976Krunoslav Hulak[44]
321977Ljubomir Ljubojević
Srđan Marangunić[45]
331978Aleksandar Matanović (3)[46][47]
341979Ivan Nemet[48]
351980Predrag Nikolić[49]
361981Božidar Ivanović (2)[50]
371982Ljubomir Ljubojević (2)[51]
381983Dušan Rajković[32]
391984Predrag Nikolić (2)[52]
401985Slavoljub Marjanović[53][54]
411986Dragan Barlov[55]
421987Miralem Dževlan[56]
431988Ivan Sokolov[57]
441989Zdenko Kožul[58][59]
451990Zdenko Kožul (2)[60][61]
461991Branko Damljanović[62]
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Multiple-time winners

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TitlesPlayerYears
11Svetozar Gligorić1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1963, 1966
5Petar Trifunović1945, 1946, 1947, 1952, 1961
Vasja Pirc1935, 1936, 1937, 1948, 1953
3Borislav Ivkov1958, 1964, 1972
Aleksandar Matanović1962, 1969, 1978
Milan Vukić1970, 1971, 1974
2Boris Kostić1935, 1938
Milan Matulović1965, 1967
Predrag Ostojić1968, 1971
Božidar Ivanović1973, 1981
Ljubomir Ljubojević1977, 1982
Predrag Nikolić1980, 1984
Zdenko Kožul1989, 1990
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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.[63]

SFR Yugoslavia

Multiple-time winners

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TitlesPlayerYears
11Milunka Lazarević1952, 1954, 1956, 1957, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1975, 1976, 1979, 1982
6Vera Nedeljković1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1958, 1965
3Katarina Jovanović-Blagojević1961, 1971, 1974
Lidija Timofejeva1947, 1948, 1949
2Henrijeta Konarkowska-Sokolov1968, 1971
Tereza Štadler1964, 1973
Vlasta Maček1973, 1980
Amalija Pihajlić1974, 1977
Gordana Marković1977, 1981
Marija Petrović1983, 1984
Zorica Nikolin1985, 1987
Suzana Maksimović1983, 1991
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