Milan Velimirović
Milan Velimirović ( Cyrillic Милан Велимировић ; born April 21, 1952 in Niš , Yugoslavia ; † February 25, 2013 in Belgrade ) was a Serbian chess composer and chess journalist .
Milan Velimirović published more than 300 chess problems. About 170 of them were awarded, 50 of them with a first prize. In 1984 he became a grandmaster in solving chess compositions , most recently he had a solving Elo rating of 2518.92 points. In 2010 he was appointed Grand Master for Chess Composition .
StrateGems 2000, 1st prize
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Solution:
The seduction 1. Qf3? leads after 1.… Rg3, 1.… Bg3 and 1.… c6 to mate with 2. Bd5, 2. Dc3 or 2. Nxd6, but becomes through 1.… Rb5! refuted. The solution is
1. Qb7 – b1! with the variants
1. ... Tg5-g3 2. Db1-b5 matt
1. ... L e1-g3 Rb8 second-b4 matt
1 ... c7-c6 2. Sc8-b6 matt
1 ... Sa1-c2-a2 2. Db1 frosted
The piece shows the Bristol theme ( Healey's pathway ) in seduction and solution .
In 1973 the Serbian Chess Composition Commission founded the magazine Mat . This was edited from April 1974 to 1984 by Milan Velimirović. The magazine was discontinued in 1984.
The magazine MatPlus was founded in 1993 by several chess composers and appeared for the first time in the spring of 1994. From issue 2-4 / 1994 Velimirović took over the magazine and ran it until the end of 1999, which resulted from the poor economic situation.
During this time Velimirović wrote the chess solving program Mat Plus Librarian , which can be upgraded to the full version with a license key specified on the official website as "crack", but can also be used to its full extent without registration.
In 2006 Velimirović revived the magazine and from 2007 it was reissued. For economic reasons, the magazine was divided into the free “MatPlus” and subscription “MatPlus Review”. The previous count was retained so that "MatPlus" was continued with number 25. The last issue was MatPlus Review 42, in the meantime MatPlus had been discontinued.
Together with Kari Valtonen he published an encyclopedia of chess problems in English in 2012, which received positive reviews.
On February 25, 2013 Velimirović died after an illness.
Works
- Milan Velimirović and Marjan Kovačević : 2345 Chess Problems - Anthology of Chess Combinations . Chess Informant, Belgrade 1997, ISBN 86-7297-031-4 .
- Milan Velimirović and Kari Valtonen : Encyclopedia of Chess Problems . Chess Informant, Belgrade 2012.
Individual references and sources
- ^ Obituary ( memento of March 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) by Marjan Kovačević (English)
- ↑ In Memoriam - Milan Velimirovic (chessdom.com, February 26, 2013, English)
- ↑ Grand master in solving chess compositions
- ↑ Grand Master for Chess Composition
- ↑ Official website ( Memento from February 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
Further sources:
- Chessworld.org
- TwoMovers on strategems.org ( Memento from May 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
Web links
- Compositions by Milan Velimirović on the Schwalbe's PDB server
- Former homepage of Milan Velimirović ( Memento from March 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- Old MatPlus website ( memento of March 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- MatPlus.net (English)
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| SURNAME | Velimirović, Milan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Велимировић, Милан (sr) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Serbian chess composer and chess journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 21, 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Niš , Yugoslavia |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 25, 2013 |
| Place of death | Belgrade |