Ivan Ivanišević

Ivan Ivanišević

Ivan Ivanišević, Karlsruhe 2016
Country Serbia and Montenegro
Serbia
Born (1977-11-23) 23 November 1977
Title Grandmaster
FIDE rating 2662 (April 2016)
Peak rating 2665 (January 2016)

Ivan Ivanišević (Serbian Cyrillic: Иван Иванишевић; born 23 November 1977) is a Serbian chess player and chess grandmaster. He won the Serbian Chess Championship in 2008, 2009,[1] 2011 and 2012.[2] He participated in seven Chess Olympiads to date, representing FR Yugoslavia (1998, 2000 and 2002) and Serbia (2008, 2010, 2012 and 2014), three times on the first board.[3]

Ivanišević took part in the Chess World Cup 2011, where he was eliminated in the first round by Alexander Onischuk.[4] In the same year he won the 3rd Balkan Individual Chess Championship in Podgorica.[5] In 2014 Ivanišević won the Chigorin Memorial in Saint Petersburg.

See also

References

  1. "Ivan Ivanisevic crushes opposition to defend the last year’s title". Chessdom. 15 Apr 2009. Retrieved 29 July 2015.
  2. "Chess Championships 1935 - 2014". Chess Association of Serbia. Retrieved 29 July 2015.
  3. Wojciech Bartelski. "Ivanišević, Ivan". OlimpBase. Retrieved 29 July 2015.
  4. Crowther, Mark (2011-09-21). "The Week in Chess: FIDE World Cup Khanty-Mansiysk 2011". London Chess Center. Retrieved 16 November 2011.
  5. Polgar, Susan (2011-12-20). "GM Ivan Ivanisevic is Balkan Champion". Chess Daily News. Retrieved 18 October 2015.

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