Vesna Mišanović
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Vesna Caselotti, née Mišanović, (born 27 November 1964 in
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) is a Bosnian
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player who holds the FIDE title 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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in
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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 in
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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
/ref> The outbreak of the
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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
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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