Jovana Rapport Explained

Jovana Rapport
Country:YugoslaviaSerbia and Montenegro (before 2006)
Montenegro (2006−2013)
Serbia (2013–2022)
Romania (2022-2024)
Hungary (since 2024)
Birth Date:18 February 1992
Birth Place:Trstenik, SR Serbia, Yugoslavia
Woman Grandmaster (2009)
Rating:2324 (April 2023)
Peakrating:2388 (February 2019)
Peakranking:No. 73 woman (February 2019)
Fideid:937266

Jovana Rapport (née Vojinović, Serbian: Јована Војиновић; born 18 February 1992) is a Serbian chess player currently playing for Romania. She holds the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM), which FIDE awarded her in 2009. She is a two-time Montenegrin women's champion (2009, 2010) and also a Serbian women's champion (2014).

Chess career

She participated in the European Youth Chess Championships and the World Youth Chess Championships in various age categories. Her best result was a third place in 2002 in Heraklion in the World Youth Championships in Girls U10 age category.[1] When she didn't make the Serbian team in 2006, she decided to switch her allegiance to Montenegro. She represented Montenegro in the European Girls' U18 Team Chess Championships (2007−2009) and won silver (2008) and bronze (2007) team medals, and won two gold (2008, 2009) and silver (2007) individual medals.[2]

She won the 2009 Mediterranean Women's Chess Championship in Antalya.[3] In 2011 in Pančevo, she won the international women's chess tournament.

In the Montenegrin Chess Championship for women, she has won four medals − two gold (2009, 2010), a silver (2008) and a bronze (2007). She switched back her national federation to her native Serbia in early 2013.[4] In 2014, she won the Serbian Chess Championship for women.[5]

Jovana Rapport played for Montenegro and Serbia in the Women's Chess Olympiads:[6]

Jovana Rapport played for Montenegro and Serbia in the European Team Chess Championships:[8]

In 2008, she was awarded the title of Woman International Master (WIM) by FIDE and received the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) the following year. She was the first woman representing Montenegro to be awarded the latter title.

Rapport achieved required norms for International Master (IM) title by late November 2015, but has yet to reach minimum rating (2400) for the title.[9]

Personal life

She married Hungarian chess grandmaster Richárd Rapport in 2016 and they live in Belgrade, Serbia.[10] In September 2022, the Rapports together decided to switch their federations to Romania. They switched back to Hungary in July 2024.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The Week in Chess 420 . TheWeekInChess.com.
  2. Web site: European Girls' U18 Team Chess Championship :: Jovana Vojinović . Wojciech . Bartelski . OlimpBase.org.
  3. Web site: WIM Jovana Vojinovic and IM Ioannis Georgiadis are Mediterranean Champions - Chessdom . tournaments.chessdom.com . 20 September 2017 . 7 July 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170707092040/http://tournaments.chessdom.com/mediterranean-championship-2009 . dead .
  4. http://ratings.fide.com/fedchange.phtml?year=2013 Player transfersin 2013
  5. Web site: Jovana Vojinovic is new Serbian Women Champion - Chessdom . chessdom.com. 7 April 2014 .
  6. Web site: Women's Chess Olympiads :: Jovana Vojinović . Wojciech . Bartelski . OlimpBase.org.
  7. Web site: 42nd Olympiad Baku 2016 Women . Heinz . Herzog . Chess-Results.com.
  8. Web site: European Women's Team Chess Championship :: Jovana Vojinović . Wojciech . Bartelski . OlimpBase.org.
  9. https://ratings.fide.com/crt/main221020.pdf
  10. Web site: Marjan Kovačević . Marjan . Kovačević . Zbog velemajstorske ljubavi stanovnik našeg glavnog grada . 4 January 2018 . Serbian . Politika.