Dragoljub Velimirović
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| Full name | Dragoljub Velimirović Драгољуб Велимировић |
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| Country |  Serbia |
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| Born | May 5, 1942 Valjevo, Serbia |
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| Title | Grandmaster | |
| FIDE rating | 2415 (January 2008) | |
| Peak rating | 2563 (January 1999) | |
Dragoljub Velimirović[1] (Serbian Cyrillic: Драгољуб Велимировић) is a Serbian and Yugoslav chess grandmaster. He was born at May 5, 1942 in Valjevo. He was introduced to chess at the age of seven by his mother Jovanka Velimirović, who was one of the Yugoslav leading female chess players before World War II. He is living in Belgrade starting from 1960.
FIDE has awarded him with IM title in 1972 and GM title in 1973. Three times, Velimirovic has won Yugoslav Chess Championship, in Vrnjacka Banja 1970 (with Milan Vukić), in Novi Sad 1975 (alone), in Nikšić/Belgrade 1997 (alone).
Velimirovic played for Yugoslav national selection many times. He won silver medal at European Team Championship in Bath 1973, silver at Chess Olympiad in Nice 1974, bronze at European Team championship in Moscow 1977 and silver at World Team championship in Lucerne 1989.
In the World championship cycles, Velimirović was the winner of Zonal tournaments in Praia da Rocha 1978 and Becici 1981. Three times he participated at Interzonal tournaments, Rio de Janiero 1979, Moscow 1982 and Szirák 1987.
Velimirovic is well known because of his attacking playing style. In the theory of chess openings there is a sharp and popular variation in Sicilian defence called Velimirovic attack and recognized by these sequence of moves: 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 e6 6. Bc4 Nc6 7. Be3 Be7 8. Qe2...
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- ^ Beograd-metropola saha, Sahovski savez Beograda 1997.
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