Dragoljub Velimirovic was a former Yugoslav – Serbian, chess
grandmaster whose international career was handicapped by political
intrigues and his outspoken temperament. During the heyday of
the USSR as the greatest national chess power, the former
Yugoslavia was capable of running the Soviet Union a good second.
Dragoljub Velimirovic posed a real threat to the men from
Moscow. Velimirovic was born in 1942 to a prominent family
from Valjevo, in the former Yugoslavia. He was introduced to chess
at the age of seven by his mother, Jovanka Velimirovic, one of
Yugoslavia’s leading female chess players. He died at the age 72,
being one of the last players to develop a system or strategy that
is so inventive it bears its creator’s name. It is a feat that is
unlikely to be repeated in the modern era, when computer-based
games and databases so thoroughly dominate competition that it is
almost impossible to come up with something new. That does not mean
that players were more talented or courageous in the decades when
Velimirovic was in his prime. Velimirovic, who became a grandmaster
in 1973, was never among the 20 top-ranked players in the world.
And that was when there were only 200 or so grandmasters; today,
there are about 2,400.
General
Imprint: |
Thinkers Publishing
|
Country of origin: |
Belgium |
Series: |
Forgotten Genius |
Release date: |
2024 |
Authors: |
Georg Mohr
• Velimirovic
|
Dimensions: |
234 x 170mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
650 |
ISBN-13: |
978-9464201994 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
9464201991 |
Barcode: |
9789464201994 |
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