Yugoslavia postage stamps year 2001 World Champions in Chess – Women

Yugoslavia postage stamps year 2001 World Champions in Chess – Women MNH MSS

In 2001, Yugoslavia issued a series of postage stamps honoring Women World Chess Champions. This series featured several prominent female chess champions, each depicted on a 10 dinar stamp. The champions included:

• Nona Gaprindashvili (SG 3291)
• Ludmila Rudenko (SG 3288)
• Maja Chiburdanidze (SG 3292)
• Xie Jun (SG 3293)
• Vera Menčik, Ljudmila Rudenko, and Jelisaveta Bikova were also recognized as part of the series.

These stamps were often released on illustrated unaddressed covers with special first day cancels, making them collectible philatelic items. The series celebrates the achievements of these women in the chess world and is a notable issue within the Yugoslavian philatelic catalog of 2001.

Given your interest in Yugoslavian stamps from 2001, this chess champions series is a significant and thematic collectible from that year