Forgotten Genius: The Life and Games of Dragoljub Velimirovic Volume 2 - Mohr & Velimirovic

Forgotten Genius: The Life and Games of Dragoljub Velimirovic Volume 2
by George Mohr & Ana Velimirovic

Dragoljub Velimirovicwas 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 Yugoslavias 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 creators 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.

This second volume covers Draskos life and chess from 1976 until 2011.

ISBN: 9789464787573 | Hardback | 380 pages | Thinkers Publishing

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