The Yugoslav Chess Championship was an annual chess tournament held to determine the Yugoslav national champion and Yugoslavia's candidates for the World Chess Championship.
It was first played in 1935 in Belgrade, the capital of Kingdom of Yugoslavia and ended with its 46th iteration after the breakup of SFR Yugoslavia.
| No. | Year | Location | Champion |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1935 | Belgrade | Vasja Pirc and Borislav Kostić[1] |
| 2 | 1936 | Novi Sad | Vasja Pirc[2] |
| 3 | 1937 | Rogaška Slatina | Vasja Pirc, Mieczysław Najdorf off contest[3] |
| 4 | 1938 | Ljubljana | Borislav Kostić[4] |
| 5 | 1939 | Zagreb | Milan Vidmar[5] |
The first women's championship of Yugoslavia was held in Zagreb in August 1939, and was won by Lidija Timofejeva and Jovanka Petrović. A women's chess tournament had previously been held in Ljubljana in 1926, in which only players from Ljubljana participated, and Sava Šerbanova was the winner.[6]