Mirjana Maric
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| Full name | Mirjana Maric Мирјана Марић |
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| Country |  Serbia United States |
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| Born | January 10, 1970 New York, United States |
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| Title | Woman Grandmaster | |
| FIDE rating | 2264 (January 2008) | |
| Peak rating | 2333 (July 2000) | |
Mirjana Maric (Marić) (Serbian Cyrillic: Мирјана Марић ; born January 10, 1970 in New York, USA) is an American-born, Serbian chess player, who holds the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She is living in Belgrade, capital of Serbia (former Yugoslavia). She has dual citizenship, Serbian and American.
Mirjana Maric was introduced to chess at the age of four, together with her 20 minutes older twin sister Alisa Maric. Alisa and Mirjana are only twins with grandmaster titles in the history of modern chess.
In earlier age, Mirjana Maric shared 1-3.place on World Youth Chess Championship U16 in France 1984.(bronze medal) and was a winner in same competition in Israel 1985.
Mirjana was two times Yugoslav Chess Champion, sharing the first place with Suzana Maksimovic in 1991. and winning alone in 1993. She played three times for Yugoslavia on Chess Olympiads, in Novi Sad 1991 (2nd team), in Moscow 1994 and Yerevan 1996.
FIDE has awarded her with WIM title in 1988. and with WGM title in 1992.
In the World championship cycles she played on Interzonal tournaments in Subotica 1991 and Jakarta 1993.
She graduated mathematics at Belgrade University and got married to international master Zoran Stamenkovic. After 2000. Mirjana Maric is playing occasionally, mainly team's events. After long pause, she played Serbian women's championship in Pancevo 2007 and got 4th place among 12 participants.
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1.Beograd-metropola saha, Sahovski savez Beograda 1997.
