The Yugoslav Chess Championship was an annual
chess tournament
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held to determine the Yugoslav national champion and Yugoslavia's candidates for the
World Chess Championship
The World Chess Championship is played to determine the world champion in chess. The current world champion is Magnus Carlsen of Norway, who has held the title since 2013.
The first event recognized as a world championship was the 1886 match ...
.
It was first played in 1935 in Belgrade, the capital of
Kingdom of Yugoslavia
The Kingdom of Yugoslavia ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Kraljevina Jugoslavija, Краљевина Југославија; sl, Kraljevina Jugoslavija) was a state in Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 until 1941. From 1918 ...
and ended with its 46th iteration after the
breakup of SFR Yugoslavia.
Winners list (men)
Kingdom of Yugoslavia
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SFR Yugoslavia
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Winners list (women)
SFR Yugoslavia
:
Notes
References
* (men's results from 1945 through 1976)
*https://web.archive.org/web/20070208092339/http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/
*https://web.archive.org/web/20070806233356/http://sah.vrsac.com/Aktuelno/Koviljaca.asp
*http://xoomer.alice.it/cserica/scacchi/storiascacchi/tornei/pagine/yugoslavia.htm
*Results from TWIC
20002005
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Chess
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