Dražen Sermek

Dražen Sermek
Country	Yugoslavia → Slovenia Croatia
Born	(1969-01-30) 30 January 1969 (age 55) Osijek, Socialist Republic of Croatia, Yugoslavia
Title	Grandmaster (1994)
FIDE rating	2471 (December 2024)
Peak rating	2603 (July 2002)
Peak ranking	No. 92 (July 2002)

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]

References

1. Bartelski, Wojciech. "Men's Chess Olympiads: Dražen Sermek". OlimpBase. Retrieved 8 July 2009.
2. Crowther, Mark (31 March 1997). "TWIC 125: Cannes Chess Festival". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
3. Crowther, Mark (28 May 2001). "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 (2 September 2008). "5th Dato' Arthur Tan Open – Li Chao wins again". ChessBase. Retrieved 26 May 2010.
6. "MCF GM Tournament – Malaysia". FIDE. Retrieved 25 May 2010.

External links

• Drazen Sermek chess games at 365Chess.com
• Drazen Sermek player profile and games at Chessgames.com
• Dražen Sermek FIDE rating history at OlimpBase.org
• Šahovska zveza Slovenije - Chess Federation of Slovenia at archive.today (archived 2009-06-10) (in Slovene)