Suzana Maksimović

Suzana Maksimović (Serbian: Сузана Максимовић; born 5 January 1962) is a Serbian and Yugoslav chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster. She is a two-time winner of the Yugoslav Women's Chess Championship (1983, 1991). She won her first Yugoslav Chess Championship national title in 1983 jointly with her fellow counterpart Marija Petrović.

Suzana Maksimović
Maksimović in 1982
CountryYugoslavia → Serbia
Born (1962-01-05) 5 January 1962
TitleWoman Grandmaster (1999)
FIDE rating2145 (October 2021)
Peak rating2345 (July 1987)

Biography

Maksimović had her first major success in 1980 when she won the title of European Junior Chess vice champion in the U20 age group. In the 1980s, she was one of the leading Yugoslav women's chess players. Suzana Maksimović won the Yugoslav Women's Chess Championships two times: 1983 and 1991 - together with Mirjana Marić. In 2002, she won the silver medal in the Yugoslav Women's Chess Championship, and in 2006 repeated this success in the Serbian Women's Chess Championship. In 1990 in Pula, Suzana Maksimović shared the 1st-4th in the Women's World Chess Championship Zonal Tournament. In 1996 in Dresden, she won the International Women's Chess Tournament.

She participated four times in the Women's World Chess Championship Interzonal Tournaments:

Maksimović played for Yugoslavia and Serbia in the Women's Chess Olympiads:[5]

She received the FIDE title of Woman International Master (WIM) in 1982 and Woman Grandmaster (WGM) in 1999.

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