Players
Our greats
25 profiles · greats, national team and the active list
Serbian and Yugoslav players: a short story with their best games woven through the text.
National team
Men's national team
46th Chess Olympiad · Samarkand, Uzbekistan
Aleksej Sarana
GM · board 1
The 2023 European champion and a team gold medallist with Serbia, with an eye for active play in attacks and endgames alike.
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Aleksandar Predke
GM · board 2
The grandmaster who played board one for Serbia’s European Championship-winning team in 2023.
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Aleksandar Inđić
GM · board 3
European champion in 2024 and a multiple Serbian champion, from his Belgrade beginnings to the national team.
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Velimir Ivić
GM · board 4
He reached round five of the World Cup at eighteen. His games show just how much active pieces can achieve.
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Bojan Maksimović
GM · board 5
A grandmaster from Banja Luka, Serbia’s 2026 champion and a World Cup participant.
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Ivan Ivanišević
GM · selector
Seven Serbian titles and a broad chess repertoire, from Sicilian counterattacks to precise endgames.
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Women's national team
Teodora Injac
IM, WGM · board 1
The 2025 European champion: nine straight wins and games full of ideas to explore.
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Alina Bivol
IM, WGM · board 2
An International Master and world junior silver medallist in 2015, named in Serbia’s national squad in 2026.
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Elif Mehmed
WGM · board 3
Serbian national team player and Woman Grandmaster since 2024. Explore her path to the title and replay selected games.
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Sofija Pogorelskih
WGM · board 4
Serbian champion in 2025 and a Woman Grandmaster, part of a new generation in the national team.
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Jovana Srdanović
WIM · board 5
From European youth silver in Mamaia in 2017 to Serbia’s senior national team.
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Alisa Marić
IM, WGM · selector
A leading name in Serbian women’s chess: world title candidate, national team player and economics professor.
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Greats
Aleksandar Matanović
GM · 1930-2023
A grandmaster and Chess Informant co-founder who helped shape both chess history and the way we read games.
Profile →Alisa Marić
International Master (IM), Woman Grandmaster (WGM) · 10.
A leading name in Serbian women’s chess: world title candidate, national team player and economics professor.
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Borislav Ivkov
GM · 1933-2022
The first World Junior Champion, a long-serving international and a grandmaster whose wins span generations.
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Dragoljub Velimirović
GM (grandmaster) · 1942-2014
The attacking player behind one of the sharpest Sicilian variations. His sacrifices still invite a closer look.
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Ljubomir Ljubojević
GM (grandmaster) · 1950
The world's third-ranked player in 1983, whose games combine bold attacking ideas with serious calculation.
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Milan Matulović
GM (grandmaster) · 1935-2013
A two-time Yugoslav champion whose attacking games offer striking examples of queen, rooks and minor pieces working together.
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Milan Vidmar
GM · 1885-1962
An electrical engineering professor and grandmaster who combined an academic career with games against the best of his era.
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Milunka Lazarević
WGM · 1932-2018
Eleven Yugoslav women's titles, a place in the world title race and a distinctive voice in chess journalism.
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Nikola Karaklajić
IM · 1926-2008
A Yugoslav champion, chess commentator and music editor who could both play an interesting game and bring it to an audience.
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Petar Trifunović
GM · 1910-1980
A doctor of law and five-time Yugoslav champion, with games featuring both patient manoeuvring and sharp tactics.
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Svetozar Gligorić
GM · 1923-2012
Eleven Yugoslav titles and games against world champions that became part of chess's essential reading.
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Active
Aleksandar Inđić
GM · 1995
European champion in 2024 and a multiple Serbian champion, from his Belgrade beginnings to the national team.
Profile →Aleksandar Predke
GM · 1994
The grandmaster who played board one for Serbia’s European Championship-winning team in 2023.
Profile →Aleksej Sarana
GM · 2000
The 2023 European champion and a team gold medallist with Serbia, with an eye for active play in attacks and endgames alike.
Profile →Alina Bivol
IM, WGM · 1996
An International Master and world junior silver medallist in 2015, named in Serbia’s national squad in 2026.
Profile →Bojan Maksimović
GM · 2002
A grandmaster from Banja Luka, Serbia’s 2026 champion and a World Cup participant.
Profile →Elif Mehmed
WGM · 2004
Serbian national team player and Woman Grandmaster since 2024. Explore her path to the title and replay selected games.
Profile →Ivan Ivanišević
GM · 1977
Seven Serbian titles and a broad chess repertoire, from Sicilian counterattacks to precise endgames.
Profile →Jovana Srdanović
WIM · 2003
From European youth silver in Mamaia in 2017 to Serbia’s senior national team.
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Miloš Perunović
GM · 1984
A grandmaster, international and author who understands the price of a pawn - and the value of the initiative it can buy.
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Nikola Sedlak
GM · 1983
A grandmaster from Subotica, Serbian champion and individual gold medallist at the 2014 Tromsø Olympiad.
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Robert Markuš
GM · 1983
A long-serving Serbian international, with European team gold in 2023 and bronze in 2025.
Profile →Sofija Pogorelskih
WGM · 2004
Serbian champion in 2025 and a Woman Grandmaster, part of a new generation in the national team.
Profile →Teodora Injac
IM, WGM · 2000
The 2025 European champion: nine straight wins and games full of ideas to explore.
Profile →Velimir Ivić
GM · 2002
He reached round five of the World Cup at eighteen. His games show just how much active pieces can achieve.
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