Ljubica Živković ( Jocić, 25 September 1936 – 13 June 2017) was a

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n and Yugoslav

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player who held the

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of Woman International Master (WIM, 1966). She was a winner of the Yugoslav Women's Chess Championship (1959).

Biography

Živković was born in Bukovac, where she finished elementary school and then secondary economics school in Novi Sad. She was employed in

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, where she spent two years and then returned to Novi Sad, where she worked at Yugoslavian company ''Naftagaspromet'' information center until retirement. She learned chess early in her youth, and she joined the Novi Sad Chess Club in 1953 when she moved to Novi Sad. She won several times at the Women's Championship of

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, and in 1959 in

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she won the Yugoslav Women's Chess Championship. In 1966, Ljubica Živković was awarded the FIDE

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(WIM) title. In 1973, she participated in the Women's World Chess Championship Interzonal Tournament in

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and ranked 16th place. For her main Novi Sad chess club (NŠK) she played about 150 official matches, with a high percentage of performance. Most of her wins contributed to the club's biggest successes. Together with Dušica Čejić, playing for NŠK, she won the first cup in Yugoslavia's chess cup in Pula in 1979. Unfortunately, due to family and business reasons and poor support of chess structures, Živković played chess as an amateur and did not use her great chess potential. After completing her chess player career, Živković was known as chess arbiter. She was awarded the title of the

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in 1984, and she served as deputy chief arbiter and chief arbiter of the 29th Chess Olympiad (women) in Novi Sad in 1990.

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