The Slovenian Chess Championship is the national
chess
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championship held in
Slovenia
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. The championship has been played since the 1950s, first as a regional championship in the
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
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, and after the independence of Slovenia as a national championship. Before 1991, the championship was usually played as a qualifier for the
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 Yugosl ...
in which not always the best players participated. This is because the best Slovenian players were often automatically qualified for the championship based on rating or performance in other tournaments.
Winners
As a regional championship
:
As a national championship
:
See also
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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 Yugosl ...
References
* Results and crosstables from the official Slovenian Chess Federation: and
* Results from TWIC: and
* Results from
FIDE tournament reports
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Championship
In sport, a championship is a competition in which the aim is to decide which individual or team is the champion.
Championship systems
Various forms of competition can be referred to by the term championship.
Title match system
In this system ...
National championships in Slovenia