Milan Velimirović

Milan Velimirović, (21 April 1952 – 25 February 2013[1]) was a Serbian chess problemist and publisher.

Milan Velimirović was born in Niš, Yugoslavia. Velimirović gained the title International solving grandmaster in 1984[2] and Grandmaster of chess compositions in 2010.[3] He was also editor of Mat Plus Review and author of MatPlus Librarian software for chess problems.

Milan Velimirović
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Mate in 2 moves

Try:
1.Qf3!? (threats: 2.Qd3#)
1... Rg3 2.Bd5# (Bristol)
1... Bg3 2.Qc3#
1... c6 2.Nxd6#
But: 1...Rb5!

Solution:
1.Qb1! (threats: 2.Qd3#)
1... Rg3 2.Qb5#
1... Bg3 2.Rb4# (Bristol)
1... c6 2.Nb6#
1... Nc2 2. Qa2#

Example of the Bristol theme.

Books
  • Milan Velimirović and Kari Valtonen: Encyclopedia of Chess Problems - Themes and Terms. Chess Informant, Belgrade 2012. ISBN 8672970640
  • Milan Velimirović and Marjan Kovačević: 2345 Chess problems – Anthology of Chess Combinations. Chess Informant, Belgrade 1997. ISBN 86-7297-031-4 COBISS 8806962
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gollark: I want to reply... but my post count is at a nice round 256...
gollark: It's somewhat funny that the people saying "no, the existing rules describe it fine" seem to now be perfectly happy with the rules actually being slightly written out now.

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 3 March 2013. Retrieved 25 February 2013.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. Grandmasters of the FIDE for Chess Compositions
  3. WFCC decisions 2010


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