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Verica Nedeljković (Serbian: Верица Недељковић; born 16 September 1929), née Jovanović (Serbian: Јовановић), is a Serbian and Yugoslav chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM, 1978). She is a six-time winner of the Yugoslav Women's Chess Championship (1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1958, 1965).

Verica Nedeljković
Country	Yugoslavia → Serbia
Born	(1929-09-16) 16 September 1929 (age 92) Čačak, Yugoslavia
Title	Woman Grandmaster (1978)
FIDE rating	[inactive]
Peak rating	2215 (January 1990)

Biography

From the mid-1950s to the late 1960s, she was one of the leading Yugoslav women's chess players. Verica Nedeljković won the Yugoslav Women's Chess Championships six times: 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1958 and 1965. The winner of many international chess women's tournaments, including twice in a row in Belgrade (1961, 1962).

Verica Nedeljković four times participated in the Women's World Chess Championship Candidates Tournaments:

• In 1955, at Candidates Tournament in Moscow has taken 6th place;[1]
• In 1959, at Candidates Tournament in Plovdiv has taken 2nd place;[2]
• In 1961, at Candidates Tournament in Vrnjačka Banja shared 4th-6th place;[3]
• In 1964, at Candidates Tournament in Sukhumi has taken 9th place;[4]
• In 1967, at Candidates Tournament in Subotica has taken 6th place.[5]

Verica Nedeljković played for Yugoslavia in the Women's Chess Olympiads:[6]

• In 1963, at second board in the 2nd Chess Olympiad (women) in Split (+12, =0, -0) and won the team silver medal and the gold individual medal,
• In 1966, at second board in the 3rd Chess Olympiad (women) in Oberhausen (+4, =4, -2).

In 1954, Verica Nedeljković was awarded the FIDE Woman International Master (WIM) title, but in 1978 she received the honorary title of FIDE Woman Grandmaster (WGM).

After graduation, she was a ship engineer and a candidate for technical sciences. Worked as a lecturer at the University of Belgrade. Been married to a chess player, a chess trainer and a medical doctor by profession - Srećko Nedeljković (1923—2011).[7]

References

External links

• Verica Nedeljkovic rating card at FIDE
• Verica Nedeljkovic FIDE rating history at OlimpBase.org
• Verica Nedeljković Women's Chess Olympiad record at OlimpBase.org
• Verica Nedeljkovic chess games at 365Chess.com
• Verica Nedeljkovic player profile and games at Chessgames.com

На других языках

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[ru] Неделькович, Вера

Вера Неделькович (род. 16 сентября 1929, Придворица, близ Чачака) — югославская шахматистка; гроссмейстер (1978). Инженер-кораблестроитель; кандидат технических наук; преподаватель политехнического факультета Белградского университета.

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