Ozren Nedeljković (28 February 1903,

Sremski Karlovci Sremski Karlovci ( sr-cyrl, Сремски Карловци, ; hu, Karlóca; tr, Karlofça) is a town and municipality located in the South Bačka District of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. It is situated on the banks of the Danub ...

– 11 June 1984,

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) was a Serbian

chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...

master. He shared 1st at Belgrade 1927, tied for 4-5th at Karlovac 1927, won the 1st Levin tournament in 1932, shared 2nd in 1933 (the 2nd Levin tourn.), tied for 4-6th in 1934 (the 3rd Levin tourn.), shared 2nd in Belgrade City Chess Championship in 1934, and took 12th at Ljubljana 1938 (

Yugoslav Chess Championship 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 Yugosla ...

Boris Kostić Borislav Kostić (24 February 1887 – 3 November 1963) was a Yugoslav chess grandmaster and a popularizer of the game. Life and chess Borislav Kostic was born in Vršac, Kingdom of Hungary, at the time part of Austria-Hungary. His father Di ...

won). Ozren Nedeljković played for Yugoslavia in

3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad The 3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad was held by German Chess Federation (''Grossdeutscher Schachbund'') as a counterpart of the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin with reference to 1924 and 1928 events. Many Jewish chess players took part in the event. Si ...

at Munich 1936 where he won individual gold medal on second reserve board. He also represented Yugoslavia in several friendly matches against Switzerland (1947, 1950), Austria (1949), Netherlands (1949, 1950), Sweden (1950), United Kingdom (1951), West Germany (1951, 1952, 1954), Italy (1951, 1953, 1954), and Hungary (1957, 1960).

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