Dragoljub Velimirovic was then a young attacker on the rise, a player who looked for a sacrifice sooner than a defence, and the man who would later give his name to the famous "Velimirovic Attack" in the Sicilian. At barely twenty-three he was already striking fear into opponents at the strongest domestic events.
The Yugoslav Championship was at that time one of the hardest tournaments in the world; our school produced grandmasters by the dozen, so the national title led straight to the world elite. This game against the Macedonian master Jovan Sofrevski is one of the early gems of that sacrificial style: material in second place, and the enemy king out in the draught.