Interview with Alisa Maric
Written by content team
30 March 2009
Alisa Maric was introduced to chess at the age of four, together with her 21 minutes younger twin sister Mirjana Maric. Alisa and Mirjana are the only twins with grandmaster titles in the history. She is considered to be the best Serbian female chess player ever and best American-born female chess player ever. She was World’s U20 Women’s Champion in 1985 and Yugoslavian Women’s Champion in 1986. At 20, she was third ranked female player in the world!
Alisa Maric has done Ph.D in Economics and she’s working as Marketing professor at Megatrend University in Belgrade. She is co-author of students book “Principles of marketing“. She is also a member of Presidential Board of Serbian Olympic Committee. Many times, she was anchor of TV chess shows such as “Alisa in the Wonderland of Chess”.
In this interview with Alisa Maric, she talks about managing sports as well as academics career, chess in schools, Judith Polgar, role of glamour in chess etc. In the end she has a special message for Indians! Interview with games and pictures.
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Is she married and does she have children? Do they play chess?
Like how Maric gets in the plug of her win over Anand at the end. Typical:) I enjoyed her breezy and intelligent responses to the questions. Should she decide to go ahead with the autobiography I imagine it would be fun to read. Obviously its an interesting story.
Speaking of interviews. It was only recently that I got around to watching your Dresden interviews at the Olympiad. Very nice. You definitely have a talent for it Susan (well that and you know EVERYBODY;)
I think she re-married and has two children, but I am not really sure.
She is in her 40’s and she never married and has no children.
Great gal though. Smart and beautiful.
shes is the most pretty chess girl I have seen in over 10 years