Vesna Caselotti
Vesna Misanović (born 27 November 1964 in Sarajevo) is a Bosnian chess player who holds FIDE Woman Grandmaster title.
She was winner of the first medal ever for the Bosnia and Herzegovina at the European Team Championship in Debrecin 1992. It was individual silver medal for best rating performance and result at first board.[1] Before that, she won two bronze medals by playing for Yugoslav national selection at Chess Olympiad Thessalonica 1988. It was one team medal and one for the result on fourth board. In total, she participated at six Chess Olympiads, two times for Yugoslavia (4th board in Thessalonica 1988 and 2nd board in Novi Sad 1990) and four times for Bosnia and Herzegovina (1st board in Manila 1992, Moscow 1994, Elista 1998 and Istanbul 2000).[2]
Her first big success was again in 1988 when she become Yugoslav Chess Champion. Her best international individual success was made at Interzonal Tournament Kishinev 1995, when she shared 7-9. place and qualified to the Candidates Tournament, the last instance of the Women's World Chess Championship.[3]
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.
For her sport results, two times she was selected as the best sport woman of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The readers of the woman magazines "Una" and "Zena 21" voted her as a “Woman of the year” award.
External links
- Vesna Misanovic rating card at FIDE
- Vesna Misanovic player profile and games at Chessgames.com