10/9/2023
First place in the Premier League of Belgrade for Chess Club PTT Belgrade
Chess club PTT Belgrade won the first place in the Premier League of Belgrade and was placed among the 12 clubs of the First League of Serbia, the highest level of competition in our country. The players who achieved this success are as follows: Zoran Mijailović, Goran Todorović, Mihajlo Stojanović, Goran Arsović, Zoran Arsović, Aleksandar Stanić, Zoran Krivokuća, Laslo Gonda and Sergej Grigoriants.
This year, the Premier League of Belgrade included 12 clubs, with a large number of high-ranking players from Serbia and abroad. According to the opinion of the professional public, it was the strongest it has been in the previous twenty years. In a very strong competition, the Chess Club PTT Beograd convincingly, without defeat, won the first place, with a significant advantage over the closest competitors, and will replace the Chess Club Crvena Zvezda in the First League of Serbia next year, which was eliminated from the most elite competition.
One of the oldest in Serbia, the PTT Belgrade Chess Club, founded in 1935, earlier this year with the great support of the Post of Serbia and the Acting Director Zoran Đorđević, revitalized chess playing in the Enterprise, and established an internal chess league with ten sections. A youth chess school for beginners has been established, while the plan is to expand it in working units throughout the country.