Marija Petrović (born 29 August 1953) is a female chess player who has represented both
Yugoslavia and
Serbia in international chess championships. She represented Yugoslavia in international chess competitions from 1981 to 1992 until the
breakup of Yugoslavia
The breakup of Yugoslavia occurred as a result of a series of political upheavals and conflicts during the early 1990s. After a period of political and economic crisis in the 1980s, constituent republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yu ...
and then went on to represent Serbia at the international level from 1992 until her retirement in 2016. She achieved the Woman International Master title in 1981.
Marija is also a two time national champion for Yugoslavia in 1983 and 1984 in the
Yugoslav Chess Championship. She won her first Yugoslav Chess Championship national title jointly with her fellow counterpart
Suzana Maksimović
Suzana Maksimović ( sr, Сузана Максимовић; born 5 January 1962) is a Serbian and Yugoslav chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster. She is a two-time winner of the Yugoslav Women's Chess Championship (1983, 1991) ...
. She also represented Yugoslavia at the
Women's World Chess Championship 1988 and took part in two Olympiad events in 1984 and 1990.
See also
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List of female chess players
References
External links
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Profile at Chess-db.com
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1953 births
Living people
Yugoslav female chess players
Yugoslav chess players
Serbian female chess players
Serbian chess players
Chess Woman International Masters
Chess Olympiad competitors
People from Panevėžys