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Katarina Blagojevi?
(nee
Jovanovi?
; 31 October 1943 ? 15 November 2021), also known as
Katarina Blagojevi?-Jovanovi?
(
Serbian Cyrillic
:
Катарина Благо?еви?-?ованови?
) was a Serbian
chess
player. She held the title of
Woman Grandmaster
(WGM, 1986). She shared 4th-5th place in the
Women's World Chess Championship Candidates Tournament
in 1964. She was born in
Belgrade
,
Occupied Serbia
, occupied
Kingdom of Yugoslavia
.
Blagojevi? was a three-time winner of the
Yugoslav Women's Chess Championship
(1961, 1972, 1974). She won a team silver medal and bronze individual medal at the
Women's Chess Olympiads
in
1963
and
1966
.
[1]
[2]
- ↑
"Meets and Performances"
.
Sport in the USSR
. No. 3?12, 95?106. Soviet Union magazine. 1971. p. 22.
Women's world chess champion Nona Gaprindashvili from Tbilisi, the Georgian capital, won all 13 games at an international tournament in Yugoslavia whose entrants included such strong players as Nicolau of Rumania, Asenova of Bulgaria and the Jovanovic sisters of Yugoslavia.
- ↑
"Chess Life & Review"
. Vol. 26. United States Chess Federation. August 1971. p. 437.
It is also interesting to note that in this tournament all three Jovanovic sisters took part and that, between their scores, there is but a small difference in points. The youngest sister, Gordana, threatens to crowd out her elder, Katarina.