Verica Nedeljković

Verica Nedeljković, was a Yugoslav and Serbian chess player who held the title of Woman Grandmaster. She was 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:

In 1955, at Candidates Tournament in Moscow she took 6th place;
In 1959, at Candidates Tournament in Plovdiv she took 2nd place;
In 1961, at Candidates Tournament in Vrnjačka Banja shared 4th–6th place;
In 1964, at Candidates Tournament in Sukhumi she took 9th place;
In 1967, at Candidates Tournament in Subotica she took 6th place.

Verica Nedeljković played for Yugoslavia in the Women's Chess Olympiads:

In 1963, at the second board in the 2nd Chess Olympiad (women) in Split and won the team silver medal and the gold individual medal,
In 1966, at second board in the 3rd Chess Olympiad (women) in Oberhausen.

In 1954, Verica Nedeljković was awarded the FIDE Woman International Master title, but in 1978 she received the honorary title of FIDE Woman Grandmaster.
After graduation, she was a naval engineer and completed a research degree. She also worked as a lecturer at the University of Belgrade. She was married to a chess player, a chess trainer and a medical doctor by profession - Srećko Nedeljković.
Verica Nedeljković died in Belgrade on 13 December 2023, at the age of 94.