Katarina Blagojević

Katarina Blagojević (née Jovanović; 31 October 1943 — 15 November 2021), also known as Katarina Blagojević-Jovanović[3] (Serbian Cyrillic: Катарина Благојевић-Јовановић) was a Serbian chess player who held the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM, 1986).[1][2] She shared 4th–5th place in the Women's World Chess Championship Candidates Tournament in 1964. She was a three-time winner of the Yugoslav Women's Chess Championship (1961, 1972, 1974) and won a team silver medal and bronze individual medal at the Women's Chess Olympiads in 1963 and 1966, respectively.

For other uses, see Katarina Jovanović.
Katarina Blagojević
Blagojević in 1971
Country Yugoslavia →
 Serbia and Montenegro →
 Serbia
Born(1943-10-31)31 October 1943
Belgrade, Occupied Serbia, occupied Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Died15 November 2021(2021-11-15) (aged 78)
TitleWoman Grandmaster (1986)[1][2]
Peak rating2340 (January 1990)
Peak rankingNo. 14 woman (July 1972)
Medal record
Women's chess
Representing  Yugoslavia
Women's Chess Olympiad
Silver medal – second place 1963 Split Team
Bronze medal – third place 1966 Oberhausen Indiv. 1st res. board

Career

An established star since the early 1960s, Katarina was joined in that status by her two younger sisters — first by the middle, future WIM Ružica, in the late 1960s,[4] while the youngest, future WIM and top-20 player, Gordana, soon followed in the early 1970s — and they became known in the chess world as the Jovanović sisters.[5][6][7][8] Each sister won a Yugoslav women's national championship[9] and played in Interzonal Tournaments. When all three qualified for a zone tournament in the early 1970s, it was the first such occurrence in the history of international chess, and it caused FIDE to draft a new paragraph about family relationships to avoid potential situations of matches being thrown by one to help another.[7] They were the most famous trio of sisters in the chess world before the emergence of the Polgar sisters (Susan, Sofia, and Judit Polgár).[10]

Blagojević (Hoogovens, 1971)

From the early 1960s to mid-1970s, she was one of the leading Yugoslav women's chess players. Katarina Blagojević won the Yugoslav Women's Chess Championship three times, in 1961, 1972 and 1974. With ŠK Red Star Belgrade, she won the Yugoslav League five times, in 1967, 1968, 1970, 1975 and 1976.[11] The winner of many international chess tournaments, including three consecutive wins in Hoogovens Beverwijk tournament (1960, 1961, 1962), and the win in Amsterdam in 1963.[1]

In 1964, Katarina Blagojević achieved the greatest success in her chess career, when she shared 4th–5th place in the Women's World Chess Championship Candidates Tournament in Sukhumi.[1][12]

Katarina Blagojević played in two Women's World Chess Championship Interzonal Tournaments:

She also won the European Zonal 1 in 1975 in Karlovy Vary,[1] but didn't play in the subsequent Interzonal Tournament. Katarina Blagojević played for Yugoslavia in five Women's Chess Olympiads:[15]

She played in the traditional USSR vs Yugoslavia match, defeating Tatiana Zatulovskaya 2½–1½ in 1970.[1]

In 1964, Katarina Blagojević was awarded the FIDE Woman International master (WIM) title and in 1986, she was awarded FIDE Woman Grandmaster (WGM) title[1][2] for her previous results.[11]

Her highest ranking on the FIDE women's rating list was No. 14 in July 1972,[16] while her highest Elo rating was 2340 in January 1990.[17][3]

For her silver medal in the Olympiad, the Government of Serbia awarded her National Sports Recognition in 2007, including sports pension, of which she donated 10000 dinars to help victims of 2014 floods in Serbia.[18]

References
  1. Karpov, A. E., ed. (1990). Шахматы: энциклопедический словарь [Chess Encyclopedic Dictionary]. Советская энциклопедия (in Russian). Moscow: Книга по Требованию. p. 143. ISBN 9785458359351. Retrieved 17 November 2021
  2. "Yugoslav Survey". Vol. 32. Belgrade: Jugoslavija Publishing House. 1991. p. 130. Among Yugoslavia's women chess players the title of women's grandmaster is held by Milunka Lazarević, Vera Nedeljković, Tereza Štadler, Henrijeta Konarkovska-Sokolov, Alisa Marić and Katarina Jovanović. {{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help) Retrieved 17 November 2021
  3. "OlimpBase :: FIDE rating history :: Blagojevic-Jovanovic, Katarina". www.olimpbase.org. Retrieved 17 November 2021
  4. "Fifth Women's Tournament". Chess Review. Vol. 37. 1969. p. 179.
  5. "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.
  6. "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. {{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)
  7. Malevski, Blagoje (1972). "Sisters Pose Chess Problem". Review: Yugoslav Magazine. p. 40.
  8. "The British Chess Magazine". Vol. 102. Trubner & Company. 1982. p. 352. {{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)
  9. "Yugoslav Survey". Vol. 32. Belgrade: Jugoslavija Publishing House. 1991. p. 113. There were also three sisters at the Yugoslav championships – Katarina, Ružica and Gordana Jovanović, whose names appeared on the list of champions. {{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)
  10. Dinić, Vladan (6 June 2017). "Priča o Verici i Srećku Nedeljkoviću". Svedok (via beochess.rs) (in Serbian). Belgrade. p. 34. Retrieved 17 November 2021
  11. "In Memoriam – Katarina Jovanović Blagojević (1943–2021)". serbiachess.org (in Serbian).
  12. "1964 Candidates Tournament : World Chess Championship (women)". www.mark-weeks.com. Retrieved 17 November 2021
  13. "1971 Ohrid Interzonal Tournament : World Chess Championship (women)". www.mark-weeks.com. Retrieved 17 November 2021
  14. "1973 Menorca Interzonal Tournament : World Chess Championship (women)". www.mark-weeks.com. Retrieved 17 November 2021
  15. Bartelski, Wojciech. "OlimpBase :: Women's Chess Olympiads :: Katarina Jovanović". www.olimpbase.org. Retrieved 17 November 2021
  16. "OlimpBase :: FIDE Rating List July 1972". www.olimpbase.org. Retrieved 17 November 2021
  17. "OlimpBase :: FIDE rating history :: Jovanovic, Katarina". www.olimpbase.org.
  18. "Pomoć ugroženima – nosioci nacionalnih sportskih priznanja". serbiachess.org (in Serbian). Retrieved 17 November 2021
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