{"id":3727,"date":"2024-02-01T09:14:59","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T09:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forwardchess.com\/blog\/?p=3727"},"modified":"2024-11-14T05:39:03","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T05:39:03","slug":"latest-book-highlight-the-life-and-games-of-dragoljub-velimirovic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forwardchess.com\/blog\/latest-book-highlight-the-life-and-games-of-dragoljub-velimirovic\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Book Highlight: The Life and Games of Dragoljub Velimirovic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>There was a time when Bobby Fischer, the future champion of the world, specialized in racking up an extraordinary amount of points with his favorite Sozin Attack against the Najdorf Sicilian:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"rpbchessboard-spacerBefore\"><\/p>\n\n<div id=\"rpbchessboard-6adf67e47d29e-3\" class=\"rpbchessboard-chessgame\">\n    <noscript>\n        <div class=\"rpbchessboard-javascriptWarning\">\n            You must activate JavaScript to enhance chess game visualization.        <\/div>\n    <\/noscript>\n    <div class=\"rpbchessboard-chessgameAnchor\"><\/div>\n    <script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n        jQuery(document).ready(function($) {\n            var selector = '#' + \"rpbchessboard-6adf67e47d29e-3\" + ' .rpbchessboard-chessgameAnchor';\n            RPBChessboard.renderPGN($(selector), {\"pgn\":\"[Event \\\"?\\\"]\\n[Date \\\"?\\\"]\\n[Round \\\"?\\\"]\\n[White \\\"Sozin Attack\\\"]\\n[Black \\\"?\\\"]\\n[Result \\\"*\\\"]\\n[ECO \\\"B90\\\"]\\n[PlyCount \\\"11\\\"]\\n\\n\\n1. e4 c5 2. 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Risky stuff \u2013 for both players.<br><br>Despite being labeled an attacking genius, Velimirovic never managed to take the step up to join the world\u2019s elite players, although he remained a very dangerous opponent for anyone to face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:42px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/forwardchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/blog-creatives-34.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3730\" style=\"width:658px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><br><br>The above sums up just about everything most of us ever knew about Velimirovic, but now things have changed.\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/forwardchess.com\/product\/the-life-and-games-of-grandmaster-dragoljub-velimirovic-volume1><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a time when Bobby Fischer, the future champion of the world, specialized in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forwardchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forwardchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forwardchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forwardchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forwardchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3727"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/forwardchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4049,"href":"https:\/\/forwardchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727\/revisions\/4049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forwardchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forwardchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forwardchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forwardchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}