Vesna Caselotti, née Mišanović, (born 27 November 1964 in

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) is a Bosnian

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player who holds the

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of Woman Grandmaster. She was winner of the first ever medal for

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at the first Women's

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1992. It was an individual silver medal for best rating performance and result at first board. Before that, she won two bronze medals by playing for the Yugoslav national team at the

1988 Chess Olympiad The 28th Chess Olympiad ( el, Η 28η Σκακιστική Ολυμπιάδα, ''I 28i Skakistikí Olympiáda''), organized by FIDE and comprising an openAlthough commonly referred to as the ''men's division'', this section is open to both male and ...

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. The medals were for overall team performance and for her individual result on fourth board. In total, she participated at six

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s, two times for

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(4th board in Thessaloniki 1988 and 2nd board in Novi Sad 1990) and four times for Bosnia and Herzegovina (1st board in Manila 1992, Moscow 1994, Elista 1998 and Istanbul 2000). Her first major domestic success also occurred in 1988, when she became Yugoslav Women's Chess Champion. In individual, international competition, she shared 7–9th places at the Kishinev Interzonal Tournament 1995.World Chess Championship. Mark Week's pages
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Bosnian war The Bosnian War ( sh, Rat u Bosni i Hercegovini / Рат у Босни и Херцеговини) was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995. The war is commonly seen as having started ...

found her in

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. After two years of struggling, she managed to return to Sarajevo as a journalist. During the

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, she managed to continue her career, using the

Sarajevo Tunnel The Sarajevo Tunnel ( Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian: Sarajevski tunel / Сарајевски тунел), also known as Tunel spasa (Тунел спаса, English: ''Tunnel of rescue'') and Tunnel of Hope, was a tunnel constructed between March ...

to go to tournaments and to return. For her sport results, she was twice selected as the best sportswoman of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The readers of the women's magazines "Una" and "Zena 21" voted her an award as “Woman of the year”.

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Vesna Misanovic
chess games at 365Chess.com * {{DEFAULTSORT:Misanovic, Vesna 1964 births Living people Chess woman grandmasters Bosnia and Herzegovina chess players Yugoslav female chess players Yugoslav chess players Sportspeople from Sarajevo