My Biography of Dimitrije Bjelica

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Dimitrije Bjelica
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Dimitrije Bjelica (born 1935 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia) is a Yugoslav
chess master who can be found in the Guinness Book of Records for
playing a 312-board simul in Subotica in 1997 (score: +219-1=92). He
also played a record-breaking 55-game blindfold simul (+50-1=4) in the
same year in Herceg Novi. Bjelica is also one of the most prolific
chess authors in the world, with over 80 books in 180 editions and 35
videos and CDs to his name. He has organised many big events and was
the arbiter at tournaments like Linares.

Dimitrije Bjelica is one of the world's most famous and most prolific
chess journalists. He is the author of more than 80 books and
thousands of published newspaper and magazine articles about chess.
Based in Belgrade, he has interviewed at one time or another virtually
all of the world's leading chess players. For the past more than 50
years, any time an important chess event is held anywhere in Europe,
Bjelica has been there.

Bjelica claims to be a close personal friend of Bobby Fischer. Fischer
says in reply, "I want nothing to do with that guy". Nevertheless,
Bjelica has on his website and sells videos of interviews he took of
Bobby Fischer before Fischer became would chess champion.

A tireless self promoter, Bjelica tells the story that at the great
tournament in Zurich, 1959, he was driving with Future World Chess
Champions Mikhail Tal and Bobby Fischer and they nearly had an
accident. "What would happen if we turned over?" asked Bobby. "All the
world's press on the front pages would say - 'Dimitrije Bjelica got
killed in a car accident with two passengers,'" replied Bjelica.

Bjelica is known for his annual awards of "Black Oscars" in chess. The
most frequent winners of these Black Oscars are Alexander Matanovic,
Georgios Makropoulos, Florencio Campomanes and Geurt Gijssen. He also
awards White Oscars, which most often go to Anatoly Karpov and
Borislav Ivkov.

Dimitrije Bjelica is the father of the most famous and most productive
Serbian writer, Isidora Bjelica.

Books

* Reyes del Ajedrez ISBN 8488155328

External links

* Dimitrije Bjelica chess
* Black Oscars awarded by Dimitrije Bjelica
* Chess Oscars from Dimitrije Bjelica
* A couple of stories by Dimitrije Bjelica
* Web summary of Dimitrije Bjelica
* Dimitrije Bjelica Chess - Dimitrije Bjelica is a Serbian chess
personality, writer and author of chess books, who also has met many
celebrities in the chess
* ChessBase news about Dimitrije Bjelica

* FIDE rating card for Dimitrije Bjelica

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitrije_Bjelica"

Categories: 1935 births | Living people | Yugoslav chess players |
Serbian chess players | Chess players | Serbian writers

Sam Sloan

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From: dimitrijed <bj...@eunet.yu>
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 12:28 AM
Subject: Fw: My Biography of Dimitrije Bjelica

PROTEST IN FRONT OF AMERICAN EMBASSY IN MONTENEGRO VILLAGE VRBICA--

VRBICA - MONTENEGRO AFTER THE ARTICLE MY BIOGRAPHY OF DIMITRIJE
BJELIOCA BY SAM SLOAN THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE OF A SMALL VILLAGE VRBICA
UP, CAME IN FRONT OF AMERICAN EMBASSY IN THIS VILLAGE TO PROTEST
AGAINST THE FIRST SENTENCE IN THE BIOGRAPHY WHICH SAYS THAT BJELICA
WAS BORN IN BELGRADE . BUT WORLD CHAMPION IN MAGIC CHESS, FOUNDER OF
CHILDRENS OLYMPIADS M WORLD RECORD HOLDER 312 GAMES ONE DEFEAT AND
NOW 42O GAMES 14 DRAWS AUTHOR OF 18O EDITIONS OF THE BOOKS DIMITRIJE
BJELICA WAS BORN IN VRBICA UP , THE PEOPLE FROM VRBICA DOWN DID NOT
PROTEST. BELGRADE WANTS TO BE FAMOUS AND BELGRADE SEND THE NEWS TO
SAM THAT BJELICA WAS BORN IN BELGRADE , BELGRADE WILL DO IT FOR NIKOLA
TESLA AND ISIDORA BJELICA FAMOUS WRITER AND BJELICAS DAUGHER WHO WAS
IN THE PRESS OFFICE OF THE MATCH KARPOV -KASPAROV IN LONDON IN 1986
WHEN DIMITRU WAS IN THE CAMP OF KARPOV. THE POLICE IN SARAJO
INSTIGATED THEM BOTH AND ASKED TO WHICH ORGANISATION THEY BELONG. THE
ANSWER WAS TO KGB AND FBI , LUB KARPO, GLIGORIC BJELICA HERE AND
FISCHER BJELICA IVKOV THERE SC SCHOOL IJ IGSLO . THE SAME HAPPENED
WHEN BABA JOJA RECEIVED THE AWARD OF AMERICAN BIOGRAOHIUCAK INSTITUTE
IB SEVERAL NEWSPAPERS IT WAS SAID THAT BABA JOKA WAS FROM VRBICA DOWN

Sam Sloan

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From: dimitrijed bj...@eunet.yu

Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 10:55 AM

Subject: Fw: My Biography of Dimitrije Bjelica

----- Answer OF THE BIRTH PLACE DIMITRIJE BJELICA

VILLAGE VRBICA WORLD CHAMPION MAGIC CHESS BJELICA WAS\ BORN IN VRBICA
NOT BELGRADE , THANKS TO SAM SLOAN FOR BIOGRAPHY, THANKS TO THE GODS
WHO GAVE BIRTH FAMOSE SCORPIO CAPABLANCA, LJUBOJEVIC, IVKOV, BJELICA
8TH ,TAL 9TH NOVEMBER . JUST SMALL CORRECTIONS:

IN MY VILLAGE VRBICA UP ,EVEN IN VRBICA DOWN, BOTH HAVE TEN HOUSES IN
MONTENEGRO JUST NOW MEMBER OF UN , PROTESTED BECAUSE SAM SLOAN PUT
THAT I WAS BORN IN BELGRADE , THEY PROTESTED IN FRONT OF AMERICAN
EMBASSY IN VRBICA UP AND IN FRONT OF SERBIAN EMBASSY IN VRBICA UP WITH
SLOGANS - WORLD CHAMPION IN MAGIC CHESS-BJELICA, FOUNDER OF CHILDREN
OLYMPIADS , RECORD HOLDER 42O GAMES SIMULTAN , 14 DRAWS IN 2006 ,NOVI
SAD 56 GAMES BLINDFOLD , NOT 55 , IGALO 1997 , AS SAM WROTE , ALSO
PROTESTED IN THE MAIN STREET IN BELGRADE WITH SLOGAN - BJELICA
-CHAMPION WAS BORN IN VRBICA NOT BELGRADE . AT THE PROTEST MEETING
MAYOR OF VRBICA SAID - BELGRADE WANTS TO PUT IN MEDIAS THAT NIKOLA
TESLA , WAS BORN IN BELGRADE BECAUSE BJELICA MADE FILM TESLA SATELLITE
BELGRADE - LINARES , BUT HIS VILLAGE SMILJAN WOULD PROTEST . BELGRADE
ALSO WANTS TO ANNOUNCE THAT ISIDORA BJELICA ,FAMOUS WRITER ,TV STAR
AND BJELICAS DAUGHTER WAS BORN THERE AND HER NATIVE TOWN SARAJEVO
WOULD NOT PROTEST BECAUSE IN 1986 SHE WAS PRESS OFFICER AT THE MATCH
KARPOV - KASPARPOV IN LONDON AND DIMITRY WAS IN KARPOV,S CAMP ---
<bj...@eunet.yu> WWW.BJELICACHESS.CO.YU . WHEN THEY RETURNED FROM
LONDON POLICE IN SARAJEVO INVESTIGATE THEM AND ASKED TO WHICH
ORGANIZATIONS THEY BELONG THE ANSWER \WAS FBI * SCHOOL IN IGALO,
MONTENEGRO FISCHER, BJELICA ,IVKOV and kgb New York KARPOV, GLIGORIC,
BJELICA AND THEY LEFT SARAJEVO AND CAME TO BELGRADE BUT NOT BORN
THERE. A2 - AS FOR FISCHERS REMARK - BOBBY SAID THAT ALL THE MATCHES
K-K WERE PREARRANGED. ALSO THE COURT PROCESS FISCHER - BJELICA IN 1971
WAS PREARRANGED. IN ZAGREB NEWSPAPER PLAVI VJESNIK THEY PUBLISH4ED
STORIES FROM MY BOOK GRANDMASTERS IN PROFILE ABOUT FISCHER AND PUT HIS
NAME AS THE AUTHOR . BOBBY CALLED ME BY TELEPHONE AND I GAVE HIM
ADVICE- PUT TO THE COURT PLAVI VJESNIK BECAUSE THEY WROTE THAT YOU ARE
THE AUTHOR OF THE ARTICLES, PUT ME ALSO TO THE COURT AND I WILL GET A
PUBLICITY AND I WILL PAY TO YOU 1000 DOLLARS . HE DID , BOBBY GOT A
SMALL MONEY FROM JESNIK and WHEN I MET HIM AFTER THAT I SAID - BOBBY
THANKS FOR PUBLICITY ,MY BOOKS BECAME BEST SELLERS , I DID NOT GAVE
HIM 1000 DOLLARS BUT OUR VIDEO THE CHESS GREATS AND DVD HAD MORE
COPIES IN THE WORLD THAN MADONNA with her also played ,magic chess
draw, with claudia schiffer draw m and the only simultan in all
continents when i did not have any victory was in Acropolis Greece
1988. 25 DRAWS. THEY WERE SO BEAUTIFUL THAT I COULD NOT WIN ANY GAME.
A3 - AT THE PROTEST IN FRONT OF THE EMBASSY OF SERBIA AND AMERICA THE
MAYOR OF VRBICA UP SAID . THE SAME MISTAKE HAPPENED SEVERAL YEARS AGO.
IN DAILY POLITIKA BELGRADE THEY PUBLISHED THAT EX DIRECTOR OF THE
CHESS INFORMANT ALEXANDER MATANOVIC EX CHESS PLAYER WAS AWARDED BY
AMERICAN BIOGRAPHICAL INSTITUTE TO BE AMONG 500 MOST INFLUENCED
PEOPLE. AFTER THAT I SEND THE LETTER TO THE AMERICAN BIOGRAPHICAL
INSTITUTE TO GIVE AWARD THE SAME AS TO MATANOVIC TO MY GRANDMOTHER
JOKA FROM VRBICA UP AND THEY GAVE . BUT IN DAILY BORBA THEY WROTE THAT
BABA JOKA WHO DIED 5O YEARS AGO IN HER 90TIES WAS VRBICA DOWN AND
VRBICA UP PROTESTED. AND WE MADE CORRECTION AND WROTE THAT BABA JOKA
WAS\ BORN IN VRBICA UP AND THAT DIMITRY WAS BORN IN THE FIELD OF
VRBICA UP WHILE HIS MOTHER MILUSA WAS TAKING CARE ABOUT ANIMALS IN THE
FIELD AT FIVE AFTERNOON THE SAME AS IN THE POEM BY GARCIA LORFCA AT
FIVE AFTERNOON BECAUSE DIMITRY WAS TORERO IN 1967 IN MALLORCA AND THE
NUMBER ONE TORERO OF YUGOSLAVIA AND HIS DAUGHTER ISIDORA ALSO WAS
TORERO IN LINARES IN 2O CENTURY. ISIDORA AND DIMITRY ARE THE FAMILY
WITH THE BIGGEST NUMBER OF THE BOOKS , ISIDORA 55 NOVELS WITH MORE
THAN HUNDRED EDITIONS AND DIMITRY 86 BOOKS WITH 15O EDITIONS AND 55
VIDEOS CDM DVD M THEY ARE ONLY FATHER AND DAUGHTER MEMBERS OF SERBIAN
UNION OF WRITERS IN AMERICAS HALL OF FAME. A4 - MAYOR OF VRBICA UP
DECLARED AT THE PROTEST IN FRONT OF THE EMBASSY DIMITRY PLAYED CHESS
IN ALL CONTINENTS, ALSO IN THE AIRPLANES OF MALEV COMPANY BUDAPEST N-
NEW YORK , BELGRADE - DUBAI, IN THE PLANE AL ITALIA MEXICO CITY -
PARIS , IN THE AIRPLANE PAN AMERICAN LOS ANGELES - NEW YORK AND HIS
GAME VS MOHAMED ALI IN THAT PLANE CAME IN THE BOOK BY BJELICA JUST OUT
BLUNDERS AND WONDERS . A5 - BJELICA IS THE ONLY STAR WHO CAME WITHOUT
VISA TO BRASIL , BECAUSE AT THEN AIRPORT POLICE SAW HIS FAMOUS BOOK
WITH THE FOOTBALL STARS WHERE WAS PHOTO PELE AND BJELICA AND
DEDICATION TO MY FRIEND DIMITRY -PELE . BJELICA BEAT BORG IN CHESS ,
FISCHER IN TENNIS , AND GLIGORIC ALSO . HE BEAT JUDIT POLGAR 6-1 IN
TENNIS IN SEVILLA AND IN THE PRESS THEY WROTE BJELICA - JUDIT 6-1 , HE
PLAYED IN THE PRISON IN SARAJEVO 4O BOARDS AND THE HEAD LINE WAS -
BJELICA IN THE PRISON WITH BIG LETTERS HEAD LINE AND SMALL LETTERS
THEY WROTE PLAYED SIMULTAN . A6 - AT THE SITE WWW.BJELICACHESS.CO.YU
ARE PHOTOS WITHY BOBBY ON THE BOAT AT BLED LAKE , WITH PAPA PAUL THEIR
SECOND , WITH ARAFAT AND BJELICAS MOTHER PUT THE PHOTO AT THE WALL IN
THEIR HOUSE ION IGALO MONTENEGRO SKOJEVSKA 22 AND WILL BE BOULEVARD OF
BJELICAS . A VISITOR FROM VRBICA ASKED BJELICAS NOTHER - WHO IS THIS
WITH YOUR SON DIMITRY . A7 BJELICAS BOOK TRAVELLING AND ASKING SAID
MAYOR OF VRBICA GOT GOLDEN AWARD AND HE EXPLAINED HOW HE INTERVIEWED
FAMOUS PEOPLE CHE GUEVARA S DAUGHTER , SERGEY JESENIN S SON, GAGARIN ,
99 GREAT PERSONALITIES , IN HOLLYWOOD 197O ELISABETH TAYLOR AND
RICHARD BURTON REFUSED INTERVIEW AND HE BECAME AN ELECTRICIAN ,
TELEPHONED ON BEHALF OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE HOTEL BEVERLY HILLS AND
SAID - YOUR INSTALLATIONS ARE DANGEROUS I WILL SEND YOU ELECTRICIAN
FROM MONTENEGRO AND DIMITRY CAME WITH MICROPHONE HIDDEN IN THE POCKET
AND HE MADE INTERVIEW. THEY CAME IN 1971 IN JUGOSLAVIA AND IN IGALO
THEY SEND ROLLS ROYCE FOR DIMNITRY . WHO EXPLAINED THAT HE WAS NOT
ELECTRIC MASTER BUT CHESS MASTER AND THEY ALLOWED THAT HE CAN PUBLISH
ALL.

Sam Sloan

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Dear Dimitrije Bjelica,

OK. I have modified your biography to state the following:

Dimitrije Bjelica (born November 8, 1935 in Vrbica Gornja,
Montenegro) is a Yugoslav chess master who can be found in the


Guinness Book of Records for playing a 312-board simul in Subotica in

1997 (score: +219-1=92). He also played a record-breaking 56-game
blindfold simul (+51-1=4) in the same year in Herceg Novi.

As you can see, I put your birth date as November 8 and changed your
place of birth to Vrbica Gornja, Montenegro. I had a lot of trouble
with this because there are several towns named Vrbica and it took me
a while to figure out which one was your place of birth.

I did not include the fact that you were born in a field while your
mother was taking care of the cows, but I can add that interesting
fact if you wish.

I have added that Isidora was born in Sarajevo. I do not have a birth
date for her, so please provide one. I always thought that you were
exaggerating as usual when your write that your daughter is the most
famous Serbian writer, but then I found out that your daughter really
is the most famous Serbian writer.

Please check this all out at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitrije_Bjelica

I have not announced or publicized this biography to the chess world,
but I will do so in a few minutes. I was waiting to receive a response
from you before I told the rest of the world about it.

The thing I want to alert you about is that every time I post a chess
biography, certain people come in and vandalize it and try to tear it
apart. The persons who do this especially often are Paul Rubin, who
posts aa PHR, Ralf Callenberg, who posts as Rook_wave, and Louis
Blair, Taylor Kingston, Bill Brock and Neil Brennen. So, as soon as I
post this biogaphy of you they will come in and try to dismantle it.

For example, when Bessel Kok was running for FIDE election, I posted
biographies of every member of his campaign team. These people above
got all of these biographies deleted, thereby helping Kirsan
Ilyumzhinov be re-elected

These people will try to do this to you too and, unfortunately, I will
not be able to defend you when this happens. Therefore I am hoping
that your friends, whom I am CCing above, will watch your biography
and protect it from vandals. I am especially hoping that Goran Tomic
and Bruce Monson will be watching and stop any deletions that these
people might try to make to your biography.

Sam Sloan

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