What is Katarina Blagojević?
[[File:Hoogovenschaaktoernooi, de beste dame onder de schaakster was mejuffrouw Katja J, Bestanddeelnr 917-3681.jpg|right|200px]] '''Katarina Blagojević''' (née '''Jovanović'''; 31 October 1943 — 15 November 2021), also known as '''Katarina Blagojević-Jovanović''' ({{lang-sr-Cyrl|Катарина Благојевић-Јовановић}}) was a Serbian [[chess]] player. She held the title of [[FIDE titles|Woman Grandmaster]] (WGM, 1986). She shared 4th-5th place in the [[Women's World Chess Championship 1965|Women's World Chess Championship Candidates Tournament]] in 1964. She was born in [[Belgrade]], [[Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia|Occupied Serbia]], occupied [[Kingdom of Yugoslavia]]. Blagojević was a three-time winner of the [[Yugoslav Chess Championship|Yugoslav Women's Chess Championship]] (1961, 1972, 1974). She won a team silver medal and bronze individual medal at the [[Women's Chess Olympiad]]s in [[2nd Women's Chess Olympiad|1963]] and [[3rd Women's Chess Olympiad|1966]].<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3GdYAAAAYAAJ|title=Meets and Performances|magazine=Sport in the USSR.|date=1971|issue=3–12; 95–106|page=22|publisher=Soviet Union magazine|quote=Women's world chess champion Nona Gaprindashvili from Tbilisi, the Georgian capital, won all 13 games at an international tournament in Yugoslavia whose entrants included such strong players as Nicolau of Rumania, Asenova of Bulgaria and the Jovanovic sisters of Yugoslavia.}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G2tLAAAAYAAJ|title=Chess Life & Review|date=August 1971|volume=26|page=437|publisher=United States Chess Federation|quote=It is also interesting to note that in this tournament all three Jovanovic sisters took part and that, between their scores, there is but a small difference in points. The youngest sister, Gordana, threatens to crowd out her elder, Katarina.}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== *[https://www.365chess.com/players/Katarina_Blagojevic Katarina Blagojević] chess games at 365Ch