{"product_id":"forgotten-genius-the-life-georg-mohr-9789464787573","title":"Forgotten Genius - The Life and Games of Grandmaster Dragoljub Velimirovic - Vol 2","description":"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVelimirovic 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Georg Mohr, Ana Velimirovic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9464787570\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789464787573\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Thinkers Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/02\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNot available to be shipped via Media Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Georg Mohr","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45481814655231,"sku":"9789464787573","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_226fe15c-9ece-463f-b01a-ba982f53c2a7.jpg?v=1715987764","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/forgotten-genius-the-life-georg-mohr-9789464787573","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}