Jovana Rapport

Jovana Rapport is a Serbian chess player who has represented Hungary since 2024. She holds the title of Woman Grandmaster, which FIDE awarded her in 2009. She is a two-time Montenegrin women's champion and also a Serbian women's champion.

Chess career

She participated in the European Youth Chess Championships and the World Youth Chess Championships in various age categories. Her best result was a third place in 2002 in Heraklion in the World Youth Championships in Girls U10 age category. When she did not make the Serbian team in 2006, she decided to switch her allegiance to Montenegro. She represented Montenegro in the European Girls' U18 Team Chess Championships and won silver and bronze team medals, and won two gold and silver individual medals.
She won the 2009 Mediterranean Women's Chess Championship in Antalya. In 2011 in Pančevo, she won the international women's chess tournament.
In the Montenegrin Chess Championship for women, she has won four medals − two gold, a silver and a bronze. She switched back her national federation to her native Serbia in early 2013. In 2014, she won the Serbian Chess Championship for women.
Jovana Rapport played for Montenegro and Serbia in the Women's Chess Olympiads:

Jovana Rapport played for Montenegro and Serbia in the European Team Chess Championships:

In 2007, at second board in the 7th European Team Chess Championship in Heraklion,
In 2009, at first board in the 8th European Team Chess Championship in Novi Sad,
In 2011, at first board in the 9th European Team Chess Championship in Porto Carras,
In 2013, at third board in the 10th European Team Chess Championship in Warsaw,
In 2015, at second board in the 11th European Team Chess Championship in Reykjavík and won individual gold medal.

In 2008, she was awarded the title of Woman International Master by FIDE and received the title of Woman Grandmaster the following year. She was the first woman representing Montenegro to be awarded the latter title.
Rapport achieved required norms for International Master title by late November 2015, but has yet to reach minimum rating for the title.

She married Hungarian chess grandmaster Richárd Rapport in June 2016 and they live in Belgrade, Serbia. In September 2022, the Rapports together decided to switch their federations to Romania. They switched back to Hungary in July 2024.