Milunka Lazarević

Biography:

Milunka Lazarević is a Serbian chess player and journalist. For many years she was Yugoslavia's foremost woman player and became a contender for the Women's World Chess Championship. She was taught chess by her father at the age of fourteen and quickly became recognised as a talent in the game. Progressing to become Yugoslavia's leading woman player she won the national championship eleven times between 1952 and 1982.