Career
From 1987 to 1995 she appeared under the name of Vesna Bašagić. lieutenant was an individual silver medal for best rating performance and result at first board. The medals were for overall team performance and for her individual result on fourth board.
In total, she participated at six Chess Olympiads, two times for Yugoslavia (4th board in Thessaloniki 1988 and 2nd board in Novi Sad 1990) and four times for Bosnia and Herzegovina (1st board in Manila 1992, Moscow 1994, Elista 1998 and Istanbul 2000).
In individual, international competition, she shared 7–9th places at the Kishinev Interzonal Tournament 1995. The outbreak of the Bosnian war found her in Slovenia.
After two years of struggling, she managed to return to Sarajevo as a journalist. During the Siege of Sarajevo, she managed to continue her career, using the Sarajevo Tunnel to go to tournaments and to return.
Foreign her sport results, she was twice selected as the best sportswoman of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The readers of the women"s magazines "Una" and "Zena 21" voted her an award as “Woman of the year”.