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 | |
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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) |
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:
Verica Nedeljković played for Yugoslavia in the Women's Chess Olympiads:[6]
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]
Serbian Woman Grandmasters | |
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Chess players for Serbia with the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) | |
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IM Additionally has an International Master (IM) title
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