Dražen Sermek

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.

Dražen Sermek
CountryYugoslavia → Slovenia
Croatia
Born(1969-01-30)January 30, 1969
Osijek, Socialist Republic of Croatia, Yugoslavia
TitleGrandmaster (1994)
FIDE rating2471 (February 2021)

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]

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


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