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Several times she reached the semifinals in Women’s Candidates Tournaments. She is the only woman chess player that during 25 years, without a break, played at all Zonals, Interzonals and in the World Championship Candidate matches, a feat she shares with Tigran Petrosian, as it was pointed to her by Petrosian himself. Milunka participated in many international women’s events, regularly arriving among the top finishers. The last championship she won was in 1982 when she was 49 years old. One of the strongest non-Soviet women players in the post-war period, she was 11 times Yugoslav champion - in 1957, she won with a 100% score. Milunka Lazarevic features on a stamp issued in 2020

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In the autumn of last year, to commemorate their famous sports personality, the Serbian Post Office issued a stamp with her portrait in the series ‘Chess greats of Serbia’. She died in Belgrade, three years ago, on 15 December 2018.

She was born on 1 December 1932 at Šantarovac, a small village in central Serbia. She died at the age of 86, shortly before the release of the film. Milunka did not live to see her tribute in Glory to the Queen. Milunka and Nona with Tengiz Giorgadze, Georgian chess journalist, author and arbiter | Photo: National Parliamentary Library of Georgia Nona stated in her book: “A literary person by profession, lively and impressionable, Lazarevic is one of the brightest figures in women’s chess of the sixties”. She dedicates a page to each female world champion, but she honoured Milunka with five pages. In her book, I Prefer Risk (Moscow, 1971), Nona Gaprindašvili states that Milunka was her role model.

Nona was the first woman to be awarded the Woman Grandmaster title, in 1974, while Milunka was the second to receive it, in 1976.īut they maintained a long-lasting friendship and mutual respect. In the 60s and 70s, theirs was a great rivalry, with Milunka always trailing just a step behind Nona. They were fierce fighters over the board and friends off the board. Milunka Lazarevic was featured in the documentary Glory to the Queen ( see trailer here)

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It was her indomitable style - she was talking and living with passion and fierce conviction in both her private and professional life. That will not be achieved again in 5.000 years, not even by some greater nation!”. For thirty years they held the chess crown. In the opening scene, she emotionally describes the breakthrough of the Georgian chess legends when they were crowned Olympic winners in 1982: “It was equal to landing on Mars or on Jupiter! Unthinkable! Unthinkable!. In the movie, in the role of narrator, another chess heroine appears: Serbian legend Milunka Lazarevic. However, in its genre, it is a cinematic gem by its technical and artistic rendition as well as by the importance of the subject it treats: the fabulous four chess heroines - Georgian queens Gaprindashvili, Chiburdanidze, Alexandria and Ioseliani.

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It got eclipsed by Beth Harmon, who had brought chess to the fore like never before - perhaps understandably due to the different cinema genres: the powerful Queen’s Gambit is a feature movie serial while Glory to the Queen trails behind as an 82-minute documentary. Released at about the same time, Glory to the Queen, an excellent documentary, might have been a victim of bad timing.