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
{| class="sortable wikitable" ! No. !! Year !! Location !! Champion |- | 1 || 1935 || Belgrade ||Vasja Pirc and Borislav KostićGER-ch 3rd Aachen 1935 |- | 2 || 1936 || Novi Sad ||Vasja Pirc (2)All-Union YM 1936 |- | 3 || 1937 || Rogaška Slatina ||Vasja Pirc (3) as Yugoslav champion, Miguel Najdorf as tournament champion |- | 4 || 1938 || Ljubljana ||Borislav Kostić (2)Muski sampionat YU za 2002 |- | 5 || 1939 || Zagreb ||Milan VidmarAberdeen (Scottish Championship) 1939
SFR Yugoslavia
{| class="sortable wikitable" ! No. !! Year !! Champion |- | 1 || 1945 || Petar Trifunović |- | 2 || 1946 || Petar Trifunović (2) |- | 3 || 1947 || Svetozar Gligorić Petar Trifunović (3) |- | 4 || 1948 || Svetozar Gligorić (2) Vasja Pirc (4) |- | 5 || 1949 || Svetozar Gligorić (3) |- | 6 || 1950 || Svetozar Gligorić (4) |- | 7 || 1951 || Braslav Rabar |- | 8 || 1952 || Petar Trifunović (4) |- | 9 || 1953 || Vasja Pirc (5) |- | 10 || 1955 || Nikola Karaklaji%C4%87 |- | 11 || 1956 || Svetozar Gligorić (5) |- | 12 || 1957 || Svetozar Gligorić (6) |- | 13 || 1958 || Svetozar Gligorić (7) Borislav Ivkov |- | 14 || 1959 || Svetozar Gligorić (8) |- | 15 || 1960 || Svetozar Gligorić (9) |- | 16 || 1961 || Petar Trifunović (5) |- | 17 || 1962 || Aleksandar Matanović Dragoljub Minić |- | 18 || 1963 || Svetozar Gligorić (10) |- | 19 || 1964 || Borislav Ivkov (2) Mijo Udovčić |- | 20 || 1965 || Milan Matulović |- | 21 || 1966 || Svetozar Gligorić (11) |- | 22 || 1967 || Milan Matulović (2) |- | 23 || 1968 || Predrag Ostojić Janez Stupica |- | 24 || 1969 || Aleksandar Matanović (2) |- | 25 || 1970 || Milan Vukić |- | 26 || 1971 || Predrag Ostojić (2) Milan Vukić (2) |- | 27 || 1972 || Borislav Ivkov (3) |- | 28 || 1973 || Božidar Ivanović |- | 29 || 1974 || Milan Vukić (3) |- | 30 || 1975 || Dragoljub Velimirović |- | 31 || 1976 || Krunoslav Hulak |- | 32 || 1977 || Ljubomir Ljubojević Srđan Marangunić |- | 33 || 1978 || Aleksandar Matanović (3) |- | 34 || 1979 || Ivan Nemet |- | 35 || 1980 || Predrag Nikolić |- | 36 || 1981 || Božidar Ivanović (2) |- | 37 || 1982 || Ljubomir Ljubojević (2) |- | 38 || 1983 || Dušan Rajković |- | 39 || 1984 || Predrag Nikolić (2) |- | 40 || 1985 || Slavoljub Marjanović |- | 41 || 1986 || Dragan Barlov |- | 42 || 1987 || Miralem Dževlan |- | 43 || 1988 || Ivan Sokolov |- | 44 || 1989 || Zdenko Kožul |- | 45 || 1990 || Zdenko Kožul (2) |- | 46 || 1991 || Branko Damljanović
Multiple-time winners
TitlesPlayerYears11Svetozar Gligorić1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1963, 19665Petar Trifunović1945, 1946, 1947, 1952, 1961Vasja Pirc1935, 1936, 1937, 1948, 19533Borislav Ivkov1958, 1964, 1972Aleksandar Matanović1962, 1969, 1978Milan Vukić1970, 1971, 19742Boris Kostić1935, 1938Milan Matulović1965, 1967Predrag Ostojić1968, 1971Božidar Ivanović1973, 1981Ljubomir Ljubojević1977, 1982Predrag Nikolić1980, 1984Zdenko Kožul1989, 1990
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.
SFR Yugoslavia
{| class="sortable wikitable" ! No. !! Year !! Champion |- | 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)
Multiple-time winners
TitlesPlayerYears11Milunka Lazarević1952, 1954, 1956, 1957, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1975, 1976, 1979, 19826Vera Nedeljković1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1958, 19653Katarina Jovanović-Blagojević1961, 1971, 1974Lidija Timofejeva1947, 1948, 19492Henrijeta Konarkowska-Sokolov1968, 1971Tereza Štadler1964, 1973Vlasta Maček1973, 1980Amalija Pihajlić1974, 1977Gordana Marković1977, 1981Marija Petrović1983, 1984Zorica Nikolin1985, 1987Suzana Maksimović1983, 1991
Notes
References (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