Verica Nedeljković


Verica Nedeljković, née Jovanović, is a Serbian and Yugoslav chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster. She is a six-time winner of the Yugoslav Women's Chess Championship.

Biography

From the mid-1950s to the late 1960s, she was one of the leading Yugoslav women's chess players. Verica Nedeljković won the Yugoslav Women's Chess Championships six times: 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1958 and 1965. The winner of many international chess women's tournaments, including twice in a row in Belgrade.
Verica Nedeljković four times participated in the Women's World Chess Championship Candidates Tournaments:
Verica Nedeljković played for Yugoslavia in the Women's Chess Olympiads:
In 1954, Verica Nedeljković was awarded the FIDE International Women Master title, but in 1978 she received the honorary title of FIDE International Women Grandmaster.
After graduation, she was a ship engineer and a candidate for technical sciences. Worked as a lecturer at the University of Belgrade. Been married to a chess player, a chess trainer and a medical doctor by profession - Srećko Nedeljković.