Dražen Sermek Explained

Dražen Sermek
Country:Yugoslavia → Slovenia
Croatia
Birth Date:30 January 1969
Birth Place:Osijek, Socialist Republic of Croatia, Yugoslavia
Grandmaster (1994)
Peakrating:2603 (July 2002)
Peakranking:No. 92 (July 2002)
Fideid:14600714

Dražen Sermek (born 30 January 1969) is a Croatian chess player. He holds the title of Grandmaster, which FIDE awarded him in 1994. He previously competed for Slovenia.

Sermek won the Slovenian Chess Championship in 1993 and 1998 and was a member of the Slovenian team in the Chess Olympiads of 1994, 2000, 2002, 2004 and 2006.[1]

He tied for 1st–4th with Michele Godena, Andrei Sokolov and Xie Jun at Cannes 1997.[2] In 2001 Sermek came first in the Pula Open.[3] In 2002, he won the New White Plus GM tournament in Dhaka.[4] In 2008, he tied for 3rd–7th places with Marat Dzhumaev, Darwin Laylo, Susanto Megaranto and Ashot Nadanian in the 5th Dato' Arthur Tan Malaysia Open Championship in Kuala Lumpur[5] and came first in the MCF GM Tournament, which was also held in Kuala Lumpur.[6]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Men's Chess Olympiads: Dražen Sermek. Bartelski. Wojciech. OlimpBase. 2009-07-08.
  2. Web site: TWIC 125: Cannes Chess Festival. Crowther. Mark. 1997-03-31. The Week in Chess. 2019-09-23.
  3. Web site: TWIC 342: Pula Open. Crowther. Mark. 2001-05-28. The Week in Chess. 25 May 2010.
  4. Web site: Tournament report July 2002: New White Plus GM tnmt. FIDE. 25 May 2010.
  5. Web site: 5th Dato' Arthur Tan Open – Li Chao wins again. Edwin Lam Choong Wai. 2008-09-02. ChessBase. 26 May 2010.
  6. Web site: MCF GM Tournament – Malaysia. FIDE. 25 May 2010.