Belgrade International Women's Grandmaster Chess Tournament

The Belgrade International Women's Grandmaster Chess Tournament is an annual women's round-robin chess tournament held in Belgrade, Serbia each March in honour of International Women's Day. The tournament was first staged in 1965 and has been held largely uninterrupted every year since. The tournament has had some prominent winners, most notably five-time Women's World Champions Nona Gaprindashvili and Maia Chiburdanidze. Gaprindashvilli won the tournament seven times, and in 1971 in particular she won with a perfect score of 13/13.[1][2]

Winners

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No Year Winner
1 1965   Edit Bilek (HUN)
2 1966   Nona Gaprindashvili (USSR)
  Alexandra Nicolau (ROU)
3 1967   Tatiana Zatulovskaya (USSR)
4 1968   Nona Gaprindashvili (USSR)
5 1969   Nana Alexandria (USSR)
6 1970   Alla Kushnir (USSR)
7 1971   Nona Gaprindashvili (USSR)
8 1972   Alexandra Nicolau (ROU)
  Milunka Lazarevic (YUG)
9 1973   Alexandra Nicolau (ROU)
10 1974   Nona Gaprindashvili (USSR)
11 1975   Zsuzsa Verőci (HUN)
  Valentina Kozlovskaya (USSR)
  Antonina Georgieva (BUL)
12 1976   Nona Gaprindashvili (USSR)
13 1977   Zsuzsa Verőci (HUN)
  Irina Levitina (USSR)
14 1978   Nona Gaprindashvili (USSR)
15 1979   Nana Aleksandria (USSR)
16 1981   Ludmila Zaitseva (USSR)
17 1982   Elena Akhmilovskaya (USSR)
18 1983   Zsuzsa Verőci (HUN)
19 1985   Svetlana Matveeva (USSR)
20 1986   Nino Gurieli (USSR)
21 1987   Marta Litinskaya (USSR)
  Svetlana Matveeva (USSR)
22 1989   Zsuzsa Verőci (HUN)
23 1990   Nino Gurieli (USSR)
  Nataša Bojković (YUG)
  Margarita Voyska (BUL)
24 1991   Nona Gaprindashvili (USSR)
25 1992   Maia Chiburdanidze (GEO)
26 1993   Irina Umanskaya (RUS)
27 1994   Alisa Galliamova (RUS)
28 1995   Svetlana Prudnikova (RUS)
29 1996   Maia Chiburdanidze (GEO)
30 1997   Ana Benderać (YUG)
31 1998   Natalia Zhukova (UKR)
32 1999   Gordana Marković (YUG)
33 2000   Ekaterina Kovalevskaya (RUS)
34 2001   Irina Chelushkina (YUG)
35 2002   Irina Chelushkina (YUG)
36 2003   Svetlana Prudnikova (SCG)
37 2005   Ljilja Drljević (SCG)
  Irina Chelushkina (SCG)
  Gabriela Olărașu (ROU)
  Svetlana Petrenko (MDA)
38 2006   Svetlana Petrenko (MDA)
39 2007   Svetlana Petrenko (MDA)
40 2008   Nataša Bojković (SRB)
41 2009   Ana Benderać (SRB)
42 2010   Jovana Erić (SRB)
43 2011   Irina Chelushkina (SRB)
44 2012   Ana Benderać (SRB)
45 2013   Sabrina Vega Gutierrez (ESP)
46 2014   Sabrina Vega Gutierrez (ESP)
47 2015   Marija Rakic (SRB)
48 2016   Margarita Schepetkova (RUS)
49 2017   Elena Tomilova (RUS)
50 2018   Jovana Rapport (SRB)
51 2019   Aleksandra Dimitrova (RUS)
52 2020   Lu Miaoyi (CHN)
53 2022   Andreea Navrotescu (FRA)
54 2023   Anastasiya Rakhmangulova (UKR)
55 2024   Aleksandra Maltsevskaya (POL)

References

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  1. ^ "March 8 International Women's Day". Chess News Blog. 6 March 2010. Retrieved 7 June 2024.
  2. ^ "Otvoren 55. Međunarodni Osmomartovski Turnir Šahistkinja" [55th International Women Chess Tournament Opened On The 8th Of March]. SOS Kanal (in Serbian). Retrieved 7 June 2024.
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