Full name Drazen Sermek Role Chess Player | Name Drazen Sermek | |
Title Grandmaster (chess) (1994) | ||
Dražen Sermek (born 30 January 1969) is a Croatian chess player who has competed for Slovenia.
Sermek won the Slovenian Chess Championship in 1993 and 1998 and was a member of Slovenia Olympic team in 1994, 2000, 2002, 2004 and 2006.
He tied for 1st–4th with Andrei Sokolov, Michele Godena and Xie Jun at Cannes 1997. In 2001 he came first in the Pula Open. In 2002, won the New White Plus GM tournament in Dhaka and tied for 1st–5th with Mladen Palac, Zdenko Kozul, Vladimir Burmakin and Ognjen Cvitan in the Casino HIT NG Open in Nova Gorica. In 2008, tied for 3rd–7th with Marat Dzhumaev, Darwin Laylo, Susanto Megaranto and Ashot Nadanian in the 5th Dato' Arthur Tan Malaysia Open Championship in Kuala Lumpur and came first in the MCF GM Tournament, which was also held in Kuala Lumpur.