Vasilije Tomović aka Vasily Tomovic (born 11 May 1906, died c. 1994) was a Montenegrin
chess
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master. He was born in
Mateševo
Mateševo ( cnr-Cyrl, Матешево) is a village in northern Montenegro, within Kolašin Municipality
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.
Before
World War II
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, Vasilije Tomovic was the first significant chess player in Montenegro. He was also mathematician and philosopher. In April 1936, he tied for 11-12th in Novi Sad (the 2nd
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 ...
,
Vasja Pirc
Vasja Pirc ( ; ) (December 19, 1907 – June 2, 1980) was a Yugoslav chess player. He is best known in competitive chess circles as a strong exponent of the hypermodern defense now generally known as the Pirc Defence.
Pirc was champion of Yugo ...
won). In February–March 1937, he won in Belgrade, ahead of Matveef,
Petar Trifunović
Petar Trifunović (31 August 1910 – 8 December 1980) was a Yugoslav and Serbian chess player, who was awarded the international grandmaster title, and was a five-time Yugoslav champion.
Chess career
Yugoslavia was for ...
and
Imre König
Imre König (Koenig) aka Mirko Kenig (February 9, 1901, Kula – September 9, 1992, Santa Monica, California) was a chess master representing Yugoslavia and Great Britain.
He was born in Kula, and also lived in Austria, England and the USA du ...
. In 1939, he took 2nd, behind
Milan Vidmar
Milan Vidmar (; 22 June 1885 – 9 October 1962) was a Slovenian electrical engineer, chess player, chess theorist, and writer. He was among the top dozen chess players in the world from 1910 to 1930 and in 1950, was among the inaugural recip ...
, in Zagreb (YUG-ch), shared 3rd at Zagreb 1946 (YUG-ch),
After the war, he took 5th at Novi Sad 1945 (YUG-ch, Trifunović won), tied for 5-6th at Ljubljana 1945 (
Svetozar Gligorić
Svetozar Gligorić ( sr-Cyrl, Светозар Глигорић; 2 February 1923 – 14 August 2012) was a Serbian and Yugoslav chess grandmaster and musician. He won the championship of Yugoslavia a record 11 times, and is considered the best ...
won),
Ljubljana Liberation, 1945
/ref> shared 3rd at Zagreb 1946 (YUG-ch), tied for 6-7th at Ljubljana 1947 (YUG-ch), took 15th at Budapest 1948 ( László Szabó won), and took 19th at Zagreb 1949 (YUG-ch).
References
External links
Chessgames.com
Chessmetrics.com
1906 births
Yugoslav chess players
Montenegrin chess players
1990s deaths
{{Yugoslav Chess Championship