Forgotten Genius - HARDCOVER Mikhail Botvinnik At the 1976 Delegates meeting

At the 1976 Delegates meeting of the US Chess Federation

his win against Bobby Fischer in 1964

the technique of the 'square' when the advantage of the exchange-up seems to be difficult to capitalise

but had to relinquish the title in a rematch the following year

Forgotten Genius - HARDCOVER Mikhail Botvinnik At the 1976 Delegates meetingDragoljub 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. Velimirovic was born in 1942 to a prominent family from Valjevo, in the