Yugoslav Chess Championship

The Yugoslav Chess Championship is a tournament with great tradition, held to determine the national champion. It was a very strong event which represented players from six federal republics, today independent countries.

Since 1992, the Yugoslav championship no longer represented the players from four newly independent countries - Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republic of Macedonia. Serbia and Montenegro formed the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia which got renamed into Serbia and Montenegro in 2003. In 2006 Serbia and Montenegro separated and formed its own championships.

Winners list (Men)

• Kingdom of Yugoslavia

No.	Year	Location	Champion
1	1935	Belgrade	Vasja Pirc and Borislav Kostić
2	1936	Novi Sad	Vasja Pirc
3	1937	Rogaška Slatina	Vasja Pirc, Mieczysław Najdorf off contest
4	1938	Ljubljana	Borislav Kostić
5	1939	Zagreb	Milan Vidmar

• Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

No.	Year	Champion
1	1945	Petar Trifunović
2	1946	Petar Trifunović
3	1947	Svetozar Gligorić Petar Trifunović
4	1948	Svetozar Gligorić Vasja Pirc
5	1949	Svetozar Gligorić
6	1950	Svetozar Gligorić
7	1951	Braslav Rabar
8	1952	Petar Trifunović
9	1953	Vasja Pirc
10	1955	Nikola Karaklajić
11	1956	Svetozar Gligorić
12	1957	Svetozar Gligorić
13	1958	Svetozar Gligorić Borislav Ivkov
14	1959	Svetozar Gligorić
15	1960	Svetozar Gligorić
16	1961	Petar Trifunović
17	1962	Aleksandar Matanović Dragoljub Minić
18	1962	Svetozar Gligorić
19	1963	Borislav Ivkov Mijo Udovčić
20	1965	Milan Matulović
21	1965	Svetozar Gligorić
22	1967	Milan Matulović
23	1968	Predrag Ostojić Janez Stupica
24	1969	Aleksandar Matanović
25	1970	Dragoljub Velimirović Milan Vukić
26	1971	Predrag Ostojić Milan Vukić
27	1972	Borislav Ivkov
28	1973	Božidar Ivanović
29	1974	Milan Vukić
30	1975	Dragoljub Velimirović
31	1976	Krunoslav Hulak
32	1977	Ljubomir Ljubojević Srdjan Marangunić
33	1978	Aleksandar Matanović
34	1979	Ivan Nemet
35	1980	Predrag Nikolić
36	1981	Božidar Ivanović
37	1982	Ljubomir Ljubojević
38	1983	Dušan Rajković
39	1984	Predrag Nikolić
40	1985	Slavoljub Marjanović
41	1986	Dragan Barlov
42	1987	Miralem Dževlan
43	1988	Ivan Sokolov
44	1989	Zdenko Kožul
45	1990	Zdenko Kožul
46	1991	Branko Damljanović

Winners list (Women)

• Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

No.	Year	Champion
1	1947	Lidija Timofejeva
2	1948	Lidija Timofejeva
3	1949	Lidija Timofejeva Slava Cvenkl
4	1950	Vera Nedeljković
5	1951	Vera Nedeljković
6	1952	Vera Nedeljković Milunka Lazarević
7	1953	Vera Nedeljković
8	1954	Milunka Lazarević
9	1955	Nagy-Radenković
10	1956	Milunka Lazarević
11	1957	Milunka Lazarević
12	1958	Vera Nedeljković
13	1959	Ljubica Jocić
14	1960	Milunka Lazarević
15	1961	Katarina Jovanović
16	1962	Milunka Lazarević
17	1963	Milunka Lazarević
18	1964	Tereza Štadler
19	1965	Vera Nedeljković
20	1967	Henrijeta Konarkowska-Sokolov
21	1968	Henrijeta Konarkowska-Sokolov
22	1969	Ružica Jovanović
23	1970
24	1971	Henrijeta Konarkowska-Sokolov
25	1972	Katarina Jovanović
26	1973	Amalija Pihajlić
27	1974	Katarina Jovanović
28	1975	Milunka Lazarević
29	1976	Milunka Lazarević
30	1977	Amalija Pihajlić Gordana Marković
31	1978	Olivera Prokopović
32	1979	Milunka Lazarević
33	1980	Vlasta Maček
34	1981	Gordana Marković
35	1982	Milunka Lazarević
36	1983	Marija Petrović Suzana Maksimović
37	1984	Marija Petrović
38	1985	Zorica Nikolin
39	1986	Alisa Marić
40	1987	Zorica Nikolin
41	1988	Vesna Bašagić
42	1989	Daniela Nutu-Gajić
43	1990	Jordanka Mićić
44	1991	Mirjana Marić Suzana Maksimović