Milunka Lazarevic

Milunka Lazarević (1979)
Association	Yugoslavia (until 2003) Serbia and Montenegro (2003 to 2006) Serbia (from 2006)
Born	December 1, 1932 Šantarovac
Died	December 15, 2018 Belgrade
title	International Women's Champion (1954) Women's Grand Master (1976)
Best Elo rating	2320 (July 1971)

Milunka Lazarević (married Milunka Marković ; born on December 1, 1932 in Šantarovac (today incorporated into Jagodina ); died on December 15, 2018 in Belgrade ) was a Yugoslav , later Serbian, chess player .

Milunka Lazarević's father and brother were avid chess players, and she started playing chess at the age of 14. Since the Chess Olympiad took place in Dubrovnik in 1950 , interest in chess in Yugoslavia increased enormously, and the youth chess was intensively promoted. In 1950 Milunka Lazarević joined the Novi Sad chess club . Between 1952 and 1982 she was eleven times Yugoslav national champion in chess. She represented her country on the first board at six women's chess Olympiads . In 1963 she won the silver medal in Split with Yugoslavia, only half a point behind the Soviet Union. Her greatest success was the shared victory at the 1964 women's candidates' tournament in Sukhumi together with Alla Kuschnir and Tatyana Satulovskaya . The subsequent playoff for a place in the World Cup final against Nona Gaprindashvili finished second behind Alla Kuschnir. In 1976 she became the Grand Master of Women .

Milunka Lazarević was also an internationally recognized chess journalist, international referee and chess official. In particular, she campaigned for the promotion of women's chess in the world association FIDE .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chess master: Milunka Lazarevic, Berliner Zeitung of May 30, 2020, p. B 10

Web links

Commons : Milunka Lazarević  - collection of images

• Replayable chess games by Milunka Lazarević on 365Chess.com