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Georg Mohr & Ana Velimirovic-Zorica: Forgotten Genius - The Life and Games of Grandmaster Dragoljub Velimirovic. Volume 1. 

In English. Algebraic Figurine notation. Intro. My Father. Birth, war, family. 1958-1960: Drasko introduces himself. 1961-1962: Attack on the giants. 1963: Injustice No 1. 1964: The search for contact with the best. 1965: Second account. 1966: From top to bottom. 1967: The beginning of Coaching Career. 1967-1969: Just a Few Tournaments. 11970: And finally the sun shine. 1971-1973: In the hunt for the top title. 1974: Olympic debutant. 1975: Champion! Best Results 1959-1975. About Georg. About Ana. Index of openings. Index of players. Index of Typical Sacrifices. Bibliography and Photographs.

Dragoljub Velimirovic [12.5 1942 - 22.5 2014] 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 1,800.

Thinkers Publishing, Landegem, 2024. 17.5 x 24 cm hardback. 317 pages. Condition brand new. Weight 786 g.

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