Ivan Ivanišević

Ivan Ivanišević

Ivan Ivanišević, Warsaw 2013
Country Serbia and Montenegro
Serbia
Born (1977-11-23) 23 November 1977
Title Grandmaster
FIDE rating 2662 (February 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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