| Verica Nedeljković | |
| Country: | Yugoslavia, Serbia |
| Birth Date: | 16 September 1929 |
| Birth Place: | Čačak, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes |
| Death Place: | Belgrade, Serbia |
| Woman Grandmaster (1978) | |
| Peakrating: | 2215 (January 1990) |
| Fideid: | 909807 |
Verica Nedeljković (née Jovanović; Serbian: Верица Јовановић), (Serbian: Верица Недељковић; 16 September 1929 – 13 December 2023) was a Yugoslav and Serbian chess player who held the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM, 1978). She was a six-time winner of the Yugoslav Women's Chess Championship (1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1958, 1965).
From the mid-1950s to the late 1960s, she was one of the leading Yugoslav women's chess players. Verica Nedeljković won the Yugoslav Women's Chess Championships six times: 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1958 and 1965. The winner of many international chess women's tournaments, including twice in a row in Belgrade (1961, 1962).
Verica Nedeljković four times participated in the Women's World Chess Championship Candidates Tournaments:
Verica Nedeljković played for Yugoslavia in the Women's Chess Olympiads:[6]
In 1954, Verica Nedeljković was awarded the FIDE Woman International Master (WIM) title, but in 1978 she received the honorary title of FIDE Woman Grandmaster (WGM).
After graduation, she was a naval engineer and completed a research degree. She also worked as a lecturer at the University of Belgrade. She was married to a chess player, a chess trainer and a medical doctor by profession - Srećko Nedeljković (1923—2011).[7]
Verica Nedeljković died in Belgrade on 13 December 2023, at the age of 94.[8]