Vesna Mišanović
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Vesna Misanovic (Vesna Mišanović, born 27 November 1964 in Sarajevo). FIDE Woman Grandmaster. Winner of the first medal ever for the Bosnia and Herzegovina in the European Women Chess Championship in 1992. Holder of the two Chess Olympic bronze medals.
Appeared suddenly on the chess scene in 1998, when she won the Yugoslav Chess Championship with a big distance. At the same year, she played on the Chess Olympic Games for the Yugoslav team. In total, she participated in 6 Chess Olympic Games, 4 times on a top board.
The outbreak of the Bosnian war found her in Slovenia. After two years of struggling, she managed to return to Sarajevo as the journalist. During the Siege of Sarajevo, she managed to continue her career, using the Sarajevo Tunnel to go to tournaments and to return back.
In 1995 Vesna Misanovic won the Inter-zonal Tournament in Kishinev, Moldova and qualified to the Candidates Tournament, the last instance in the woman world championship.
For her sport results, selected two times as the best sport woman of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The readers of the woman magazines Una and Zena 21 selected her as a “woman of the year”.
[edit] External links
- FIDE rating card for Vesna Misanovic
- Vesna Mišanović at ChessGames.com
