| Mar-21-04 |
| Ed Caruthers: I did a search of Velimirovic's games & couldn't find the one that made "Velimirovic Attack" against the Sicilian a main line. I think there was a Nd4xe6 sac. I think it was played somewhere around 1968. Can you find this game & add it to the collection? Are there any other collections I could search? |
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Mar-21-04
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| Benzol: <Ed Caruthers> I think this is the game your looking for Velimirovic vs Ljubojevic, 1972 |
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| Mar-21-04 |
| BiLL RobeRTiE: I doubt that's it. The Velimirovic Attack is a setup with Bc4, Be3, Qe2, and O-O-O played against the Classical Sicilian. That game was a 6. Bg5 Najdorf and it didn't even have an Nxe6 sac! =] |
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Mar-22-04
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| Benzol: Thanks Bill, I was getting confused. There's another game I'm thinking of too, one between Stean and Velimirovic that was played at the Nice Olympiad. In that one I think Velimirovic was actually playing the Black side. |
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| Mar-23-04 |
| Ed Caruthers: I think it was
Velimirovic-Bukal, Yugoslavia, 1971
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Nc6 6. Bc4 e6 7. Be3 Be7 8. Qe2 a6 9. O-O-O Qc7 10. Bb3 O-O 11. g4 Nd7 12. Nf5 exf5 13. Nd5 Qd8 14. gxf5 Na5 15. Nxe7+ Qxe7 16. Bd5 Kh8 17. Rhg1 Nf6 18. Qf3 Nxd5 19. Rxd5 Nc4 20. f6 Qxf6 21. Qxf6 gxf6 22. Bd4 Ne5 23. f4 Nd7 24. Rxd6 Rg8 25. Rd1 Re8 26. f5 Rxe4 27. Rg1 h5 28. Rg5 Rg4 29. Rxf6 Rg1+ 30. Kd2 Rg2+ 31. Ke3 1-0
Anyone know a better one? |
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| Aug-06-04 |
| Dick Brain: Velimirovic vs Sofrevski, 1965
Was an earlier example. |
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| Dec-02-04 |
| Backward Development: wow, what a name. and a system to his name as aggressive as his play. i've only seen a few of his games, but i need only look at his repetoire to know his character. this guy is the kind of player i would hate to play over the board. he is a ruthlessly tactical player. |
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| Apr-11-05 |
| get Reti: Yay! He's a practitioner of the ponziani |
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| May-19-05 |
| aw1988: This is possibly the most dangerous player who ever lived. Diemer was tricky, Alekhine liked to attack, Capablanca would simply crush you positionally, Karpov too, etc etc, but in my mind, only the name "Velimirovic" truly sends chills down my spine. I witnessed him play some years back. He absolutely dominated the opposition. I can't imagine what it must be like to play him. |
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| Aug-30-05 |
| WTHarvey: Here are some crucial positions from Drago's early games: http://www.wtharvey.com/veli.html |
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Aug-30-05
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| TheAlchemist: "Drasko" as he was also called, was a witty man, and many fun stories are linked to him. Once, he went hunting with some friends. He got lost and while everybody was searching for him, Velimirovic was trying to find the way back on his own. Suddenly, he heard some rustling behind him, he turned around and saw a wild boar. He got so frightened, he threw his rifle away and began running as fast as he could, past his friends too. (Some "legends" even say, he rode the boar for some time). The boar had stopped chasing him (if it did at all) long ago, but that couldn't stop Velimirovic. Only when he found himself in water up to his waist, he realized where he was - in a nearby lake. |
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| Dec-29-05 |
| Goran: He is also called "boss". Long time coach and second of Svetozar Gligoric. He wanted to sue Russian publishers when they renamed "Velimirovic attack" into something else (Russians were famous for trying to put their own names). Eventualy they had to pay him big money. |
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| Feb-09-06 |
| BIDMONFA: Dragoljub Velimirovic VELIMIROVIC, Dragoljub
http://www.bidmonfa.com/velimirovic...
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May-14-06
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| Fagin: Here you can find 150 of his great combinations online: http://www.schachklub.info/partien/... |
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May-25-06
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| LIFE Master AJ: (http://db.chessmetrics.com/CM2/Play...) I have often thought that if I could write 1,000 (or more) chess books, I would have to do one on this player. An attacking player, his games really fire the imagination. (One example, http://www.angelfire.com/games3/lif...) While not quite a "forgotten player" (http://www.geocities.com/lifemaster...); this player deserves to be better known today than he is. (I find that most young players don't even know who he is.) |
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| Aug-14-06 |
| Bonol: this is the type of player who throws the kitchen sink at you, followed by the kitchen. I would not like to be a sicilian player needing half a point in the last round against this guy. |
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Aug-15-06
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| Timothy Glenn Forney: He is the best accelerated dragon player of all time. |
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Aug-15-06
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| Albertan: According to this website:
http://chesslodge.blogspot.com/2005..."Drasko was born on 1942. His mother Jovanka was Yugoslav women champion and his grandfather Nikolay was famous Bishop and is recognized as a saint by Serbian Orthodox Church. Drasko earned his IM title on 1972 and GM title on 1975. He participated in Yugoslav national championships more then 25 times and was the winner on 1970 and 1975."
As Dick Brain pointed out
the game that finally made "Velimirovic attack" famous was Velimirovic-Sofreski YUG-ch 1965 when he played the Nf5 sac. |
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May-12-08
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| brankat: Happy Birthday Drasko! |
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Jun-21-08
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| Some call me Tim: According to the openings database on this site the earliest example of the Velimirovic Attack is Velimirovic vs Bradvarevic, 1962
Velimirovic castled K-side in that game and didn't sac on f5 or e6. But he did come up with the basic formation with Be3, Qe2 etc. The wild sac attacks came later. An exciting player, to be sure. |
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Dec-13-08
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| Parelius: Met GM Velimirovic at Belgrade Trophy 2008 and had the luck to analyze a bit with him , wonderful caracter ! A lot of funny and interesting stories as well and he showed me quite a lot of his best games. Will never forget it ! When we trying to prepare before his meeting with GM Sergej Kasparov we looked at some lines in the e5 CK when suddenly he said ; but wait , this position I had against the real Kasparov :-) And then he showed us , almost without a flaw , Velimirovic - Kasparov , Garry Moscow IZ 1982 . |
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Feb-06-09
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| brankat: <Parelius> Thank You for the story. I also had a privilege of meeting GM Velimirovic on a couple of occasions way back in the late 1960s. You are right, he's not only an extraordinary master, but also a very fine person. |
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| May-12-09 |
| SimonWebbsTiger: Happy Player of the Day, to Drago today! I have been working through Sacrifices in the Sicilian by David Levy; there are a few examples of the man's famous Nd5 sacs; what is amusing is that Levy appends stories of how everyone would go for weeks unsure whether the sacs were sound! Enterprising stuff. :) |
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| May-12-09 |
| WhiteRook48: happy birthday! |
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