The Yugoslav Chess Championship is a tournament with great tradition, held to determine the national champion. It was a very strong event especially in the period 1945–1991, when it 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. As the country changed name, since 2003, the Yugoslav Chess Championship was renamed to "Chess Championship of Serbia and Montenegro". Starting from 2007, after Montenegro left the state union with Serbia, it is a Serbian Chess Championship. Serbia is a successor of former Yugoslavia. There was no championship in the years 2003 and 2004.
Read more about Yugoslav Chess Championship: Winners List (Men), Winners List (Women), Crosstable
Famous quotes containing the word chess:
“What have we achieved in mowing down mountain ranges, harnessing the energy of mighty rivers, or moving whole populations about like chess pieces, if we ourselves remain the same restless, miserable, frustrated creatures we were before? To call such activity progress is utter delusion. We may succeed in altering the face of the earth until it is unrecognizable even to the Creator, but if we are unaffected wherein lies the meaning?”
—Henry Miller (1891–1980)