At one time, he was easily in the top ten in the world. (http://db.chessmetrics.com/CM2/Play...)

While perhaps not a "forgotten player," about three years ago, I was at a youth tournament in New Orleans with one of my students. A group of younger players and I started talking. One player asked about "favorite players," and I explained to them that many of the players that I admired when I was a youth were no longer in the top 100. When asked to give a few examples, Ljubojevic was one of the players that I mentioned, even a parent there (who worked as a chess coach) did not know who Ljubojevic was.

I do believe Andersson early in his career chose not to pursue the WC title.

I also recollect Larsen pointing to Ljubo when he was once asked about which players he saw as stylistic heirs. And certainly Ljubo is an original and combative player, much in the spirit of Larsen. Today, a player like Sutovsky may be comparable; even if he is not on the elite level that Ljubo and Larsen were, he probably has the talent. Still, he does make short draws occasionally.

For a couple of decades decades ‘Ljubo’ was the most successful player of Yugoslavia, one of the strongest and most popular chess countries in the world.

His comet-like rise started after he had finished second in the 1970 European Junior Championship and was invited to play in a grandmaster tournament in Sarajevo. Ljubojevic won that tournament and already the next year he earned the grandmaster title.

In the years that followed he kept winning tournaments and in the 1983 world rankings he was in third place behind Karpov and Kasparov. It is hard to say which were his best tournament achievements, but some (not mentioned in the above Bio) stand out:

--- shared first places (and the fascinating neck-and-neck races) with Kasparov in Brussels in 1987 and in Barcelona in 1989.

--- Linares, 1985.

--- 11 out of 14 super-score on first board at the 1982 Olympiad in Lucerne.

--- Las Palmas in 1974 and ’75.

--- Manila, 1975.

--- Wijk aan Zee, 1976.

--- Buenos Aires 1980 and ’81,

--- Belgrade, 1987.

--- Reggio Emilia, 1991.

When I used Ljubojevic as a "subject",there was a lot of chess books listed where his name is mentioned and games annotated. But, that is a different matter.

Sorry, I see now that Ljubo only wrote foreword in this book:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=pd_rh...

From history to the present:

Ljubomir Ljubojevic is the winner of the Corus Chess Honorary Group 2008 (ahead of shared Korchnoi / Timman, and finally Portisch).