Aleksandar Matanović

Aleksandar Matanović
Matanović competing in 1961
Personal information
Born(1930-05-23)23 May 1930
Died9 August 2023(2023-08-09) (aged 93)
Chess career
CountrySerbia
TitleGrandmaster (1955)
Peak rating2525 (January 1976)
Peak rankingNo. 54 (January 1976)

Aleksandar Matanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Матановић; 23 May 1930 – 9 August 2023) was a Serbian chess grandmaster, one of the leading Yugoslav players in the 1950s–1970s. In 1966 he founded the company Chess Informant, which publishes regular game collections from recent major tournaments and the Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings.