Mirjana Marić (Serbian Cyrillic: Мирјана Марић ; born January 10, 1970, in
New York City
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) is an American-born Serbian
chess
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player who holds the
FIDE title
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of
Woman Grandmaster
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(WGM). She lives in
Belgrade
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, capital of
Serbia
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(former
Yugoslavia
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), and has a dual Serbian and US citizenship.
Marić was introduced to chess at the age of four, together with her 20-minutes-older twin sister
Alisa Marić
Alisa Marić, PhD (Serbian Cyrillic: Алиса Марић, ; born 10 January 1970) is a Serbian chess player who holds the FIDE titles of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) and International Master (IM).
On 27 July 2012, she was elected as Minister of ...
. Alisa and Mirjana are the only twins with grandmaster titles in the history of modern chess.
At an early age, she shared 1-3 place in the
World Youth Chess Championship
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U16 in France 1984 (bronze medal), and won the same competition in Israel in 1985.
Marić was twice
Yugoslav Chess Champion, sharing first place with
Suzana Maksimovic in 1991. and winning alone in 1993. She played three times for Yugoslavia on
Chess Olympiad
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s, in
Novi Sad 1990 (2nd team), in
Moscow 1994 and
Yerevan 1996.
FIDE has awarded her with the
Woman International Master
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(WIM) title in 1988 and with the
Woman Grandmaster
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(WGM) title in 1992.
In the
World championship
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cycles she played on
Interzonal tournaments in
Subotica
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1991 and
Jakarta
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1993.
She graduated in mathematics at
Belgrade University
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Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, by 1838 it merged with the Kragujevac-ba ...
and married
international master
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Zoran Stamenkovic. After 2000 Mirjana Marić has played occasionally, mainly in team events. After a long pause she played in the
Serbian women's championship in Pancevo in 2007, and came fourth of 12 participants.
References
1.Beograd-metropola saha, Sahovski savez Beograda 1997.
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1970 births
Living people
Serbian female chess players
Yugoslav female chess players
Chess woman grandmasters
World Youth Chess Champions
American people of Serbian descent
Sportspeople from New York City
Sportspeople from Belgrade
University of Belgrade Faculty of Mathematics alumni
American sportswomen
21st-century American women