laskereshevsky: Vujovic Milorad, Jugoslavian and after Serbian IM
Belgrad (Serbia) the 14th March 1933 - Pavia (Italy) the 14 March 2001
A very talented player (expecially strong in blitz games) learned to play chess at the age of 22.
After a not bad sportif career as soccer goal-keeper and as pugilist, was a very tall and massive figure, he turned all his passions to our game.
its a pitty that on CG there are only few games about him, Cause maybe was the man who played more tournaments in ALL the chess history.... i heard of more or less a thousand(!) played by him around Europe... He was from very fluent, to enough able in several languages. For shore Russian, English, French, Italian, German... And maybe all in all even a dozen....
Ona day he said me he achieved about 20/30 International Master Norms in his carreer, and he beated same GMs and a lot of IMs between whom players like FLESH, PINTER, LJUBOJEVIC, BUKAL,EFIMOV and FERENC PORTISCH...
He considered his best achievement a victory in a Strasbourg's open above MATULOVIC, JANOSEVIC, RAICEVIC and other ab. 240 players...
Always failed to get the GM title cause too he played for support the family.....
For a big part of his life, in a year he played chess for 6 month and working in a factory the remaing half year, not the very best for trying to achieve GM's norms....
During the tournaments he was a lot involved in selling chess-books, was very famous for this in half Europe, and playing Money stakes blitz games saying: "You PUT 100 I PUT 1000 for every game! and 1 mnute for me, 5 for you!"... I was too amongs his "victims"...
The 14th of march 2001 ( the day of his 68th Birthday ) He's pasted away....
Same people say to me he was playing blitz games in a friends' home, with a little "friendly" money stake. Suddendly an hearth attack overturned him...
R.I.P. "Mitchko"
Kibitzing
