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.