Alisa Marić

Alisa Marić, Dortmund 2002
Association	Serbia
Born	January 10, 1970 New York City , United States
title	International Master of Women (1986) Grand Master of Women (1987) International Master (1993)
Current  Elo rating	2387 (December 2019)
Best Elo rating	2489 (July 1999)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Alisa Marić ( Serbian - Cyrillic Алиса Марић ; born January 10, 1970 in New York ) is a Serbian chess player and politician .

Life

Alisa Marić 1997 in Bečići

Marić grew up in a Serbian mathematician family. Her father Nebojša worked in New York at the UN and is a university professor, her mother was a teacher at a middle school. In her youth she learned to play chess with her twin sister Mirjana . Alisa became one of the most successful chess players in the history of Serbian chess at a young age. As a 12-year-old she won the Belgrade women's championship and was awarded the female championship title. This made her the youngest champion of the Serbian chess sport. In 1985 she finished second behind Ketewan Arachamia at the Junior World Championships in Dobrna .

Alisa Marić, Suzana Maksimović , Zorica Nikolin, Virginia Martinez, Yadira Hernandez, Patricia Mendoza, 1986 Chess Olympiad in Dubai

As a 16-year-old she won the women's championship of Yugoslavia and played for the women's national team for the first time at the 1986 Chess Olympiad in Dubai .

Alisa Marić at the 1988 Chess Olympiad

At the age of 18 she was already the Women's Grand Master (WGM) and won the bronze medal with her team at the Women's Chess Olympiad in Thessaloniki .

Her sister, a mathematician, became female cadet world champion in 1985 (U16 female) and later also the women's grandmaster. The Marić sisters are the only twins in chess history to win WGM titles. Alisa Marić also holds the title of International Master .

Her greatest success, and that of the Serbian women's chess sport in general, she achieved at the 1990 candidates' tournament in Borjomi , Georgia , when she shared first place with the Chinese Xie Jun (4.5 out of 7), with a result of 3, 5: 0.5 against the participating four Soviet players succeeded. After 13 years of Soviet domination, two other players managed to fight for the World Cup. The first two players played for the Women's World Cup in Belgrade and Beijing in 1991 . Marić lost to Xie Jun after a dramatic fight with 2.5: 4.5 (+1 = 3 −3) and took third place in the world rankings for women after the competition. At the Women's World Cup in New Delhi in 2000 , she reached the semifinals, where she failed with 0.5: 1.5 to Qin Kanying . A year later in Moscow , she lost in the third round to future world champion Zhu Chen with 1: 3.

In 2001 she submitted her master's thesis to the University of Economics in Belgrade. Since 2003 she has worked as an assistant at the private management university “Braća Karić” in Belgrade in the subject “Basics of Marketing”, where she wrote her doctoral thesis on the influence of the Internet on sports marketing . In 2008 she received an assistant professorship at the Megatrend University . She is a member of the Olympic Committee of Serbia . She also directs a program called “Alisa in Schachland” on the Serbian private broadcaster “TV Politika”.

Alisa Marić is listed as inactive at FIDE, as she has not played an Elo rated game since the 2009 European Women's Team Championship in Novi Sad .

Alisa Marić, who is not party to any party, has been a member of the Serbian government under Prime Minister Ivica Dačić as Minister of Youth and Sport since July 2012 .

National team

Alisa Marić took part in ten women's chess Olympiads between 1986 and 2008 , first for Yugoslavia, 2004 and 2006 for Serbia and Montenegro and 2008 for Serbia. Except for her first participation, she always played on the first board. She won two bronze medals, in 1988 with the team, in 1998 in the individual ranking on the first board. Between 1999 and 2009 she took part in five team European championships for women and achieved the best result in 1999, second place with the Yugoslav team.

societies

Marić took part in the European Women's Club Cup ten times , in 1996, 2000 and 2001 with Agrouniverzal Zemun , with whom she won the competition, in 2002 with RAD Belgrade , 2004 to 2006 with the ŠK Internet-CG Podgorica and 2007 to 2009 with the ŠK T-Com Podgorica . She won the Swiss Bundesliga in 1999 with SV Birsfelden / Beider Basel .

Game example

Anand - Marić

	a	b	c	d	e	f	G	H
8th									8th
7th									7th
6th									6th
5									5
4th									4th
3									3
2									2
1									1
	a	b	c	d	e	f	G	H

End position after 49 ... Kxf6

In the following game, Marić won with the black stones at the Open in Lugano in 1988 against the future Indian world champion Viswanathan Anand .

Anand - Marić 0-1

Lugano, March 1988

Sicilian Defense , B47

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Sc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Qc7 5. Nc3 e6 6. f4 a6 7. Nxc6 bxc6 8. Bd3 d5 9. 0-0 Nf6 10. e5 Nd7 11. b3 Nc5 12. Kh1 Be7 13. Qh5 g6 14. Qh6 Bf8 15. Qh3 a5 16. Be3 Ba6 17. Rfd1 Be7 18. Qh6 Bf8 19. Qh4 Be7 20. Qf2 Nd7 21. De2 Qc8 22. Sa4 c5 23. Bd2 Bxd3 24. cxd3 0–0 25. Tac1 Qa6 26. Be3 Tac8 27.Rd2 Qb5 28. Tdc2 Rc6 29. Bf2 Rfc8 30. De3 c4 31. Nc3 Qa6 32. bxc4 dxc4 33. d4 Nb6 34. Qf3 R6c7 35. Qh3 Rd7 36. Lh4 Bxh4 37. Qxh4 Rxd4 38. Re2 Nd5 39. Ne4 c3 40. Tee1 Qd3 41. Rxc3 Rxc3 42. Qd8 + Kg7 43. Nf6 Nxf6 44. exf6 + Kh6 45. Qf8 + Kh5 46. Qxf7 Rxf4 47. Re5 + Rf5 48 + Kg5 49h7 + 0: 1

Web links

Commons : Alisa Marić  - collection of images

• Photo report at Chessbase (English)
• Alisa Maric's website (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ André Schulz : For the 50th birthday of Alisa and Mirjana Maric In: de.chessbase.com. January 10, 2020, accessed January 13, 2020.
2. ↑ 28th Chess Olympiad (women): Thessaloniki 1988 - Yugoslavia (YUG) (English)
3. ↑ Biography at the megatrend Univerzitet ( Memento from May 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Alisa Marić results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
5. ↑ Alisa Marić results at the European Women's Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
6. ↑ Alisa Marić results at European Club Cups for women on olimpbase.org (English)