chess-The Oxford Companion to Chess - First Edition by David Hooper & Kenneth Whyld

2l h4f6 22h5Bif 23Os4Kh3 24Nh4 Nbl 25 Bxbl
BxhS 26Ns6+ Ks3 27NI5 Qc7 23Bdr Rxar 2S Pqal
l2 Bb6 Qb7 33 Rxc4 Nxc,l 34 Nh6+ g:n6 35 Nc7+
(lf 36Qs3+L{c7 3?Qxh7+ Ke6 33 QibTNxh6 r9
Qxb6l5 !1) Qxh5 Rd3 4l Qd5+ Kl6 .12 exls L{5 43
Ql7+ Ke4 44 Qc7 Black ftsisns.
VELIMIROVTd, DRAGOLJUB 0942 ),
Yugoslav player, Intcrnaiional Grandnaster
(r973). He woo 66t prize (+8=6 1)atvrnjaaka
Ba.ja 1973 and at Novi Sad 1975 (the national
chanpionship in which k came ahead olclrcooa
and uuuor ra), came semnd ar Novi sad 1976
(+8=4-3), and sh ed Iist prize with w(a at
Zemutr 1980. Velinirovia has an eye for brilliant
conbinative play, ! characteristic thal has made
bin a popularylayer. His nother, Jovdka
Vchnnovia, s6 Yugost.via s lis! soman chan-
VEI,IMIROVI6 VAXIATTON, 246 iN ThC SICILIAN
DEFENCL. also caled the Yugosla! Variation.
VENICE vARtAI ION. 88 in the auEEN s c^MBrr
Declined lron tbe gane Taitakower Canal.
Veni.e 1943 ,nd s.netines cal6a 1he Canal
VIIRDONI (d.18q4), Italian Bbo. unusually.
learned chess onlv in his middlc aec and ycr
bccamc asnone playcr. Wirh three French playeE,
Be,nard, Carlier, aDd Leger, he wroie Lar.
thioique et pratique du jet des achecs (Patis.
1775). Popularly known as rhe tiait det adateu6.
the hook ran to lburcdilions. the lastiD 18?3. Aller
pHn,DoR's dcath (179s) verdoni was engased to
takehisplaceatPanloe sclubilLondonand spenl
rhe resi ot bis d rs in Enaland: SARRAT vas nis
VERISOV VARIATION, 25 or 129 ir rhc aUEEN's
! mkroFimagc of thc sPANrsH
op.6"rNc. Othcr names are Betbeder or Levitzky
Variaiion and Pansian Opening. Gavnl Niko
l.levich Veresov (1912 79) playcdilh ihc 6nalol
thc USSR championship 1940. and subsequcntly.
The variation had been played previously by
MARSULL Ggdinsr \rou, Monre C.do 1902).
!.IDA 371
BREYR, a.d raRrA(oER. The English playerJohn
Herbert Whne (1880-1920), who favoured this
opening. published whal may have been tbe lisr
aflalysh in the firsl edition ol Mco (191l).
VERLINSKY, BORIS MARKOVICH (1888
1950), soviet player, International Masler 0950).
He loot first pize ahead ol uocolruBow in the
Odessatour.anent 19i0, andsubsequeotlyptayed
in a nnmher ol national events. to reach his best
lorn id the early 1920s. He so. the Moscow
Championship in 1928, and cnlered rhe USSR
Chanpionship 6re limcs lron 1924 to 1931.
winning lhe litle in 1929. Verlinsky playcd in one
inlernalional evenl, tbe strorg Moscos tourna
menr oI 1925 (Non by Bosoljubo{). when he
shared rwelilh place with luBINsrEtN and sPrEL'
lrERSlON, a term used by composers to indicate
rhal a composniod has been anended subsequent
to its first publicatio.. (For e$rples of how this
may be done see TNDAN IIEME and ruRroN
VERTTCAL L[NE, a rn.E.
\.!CENT, FRANCESCH 05tncentury). audoroi
the list practical chess book 10 be pnnled.In 1.195
hjs Catalan bool Librc dels tachs Portilis dels
schnch\ en nonhre de 100 was pDblhbed in
Valencia. A copy was tnosD 10 enst in tnc
Bencdidine nonaslery ol Monlseriat, bur unforiunately
the library Nas sclttercd by occuPying
French boops iD 181i..nd no.opy is no{ known.
VIDA, MARCUS ANTONIUS HIERONYMUS
(..1490 1566), poe!, writer. aod, rrom 1532,
BishopofAlba.In 1513 oralitlle earlier he srote a
Latin poem, in lhe style oi virgil, De Ludo
'Scacchia ludui, pnnled ,i$1,
anhout Vidas approval, in li25 (probably in
Basle), and in a rcvhed fonn in 1527. Ii became
videly adnired and copied-Sn Wnlan Jones\
'Caissa'.toieianple,Nasiospiredbyit.Somel50
editions hale appearcd ol Nhich about half have
been in translaiion. The poen is not a thinly
disguised sernon, s nighl have been expecred
lron such an erafted church,nan. bul a pacan
accounl of an exciting gane oi chess between
I1 wds played according to thc rhcn ncw rules.
giving the pocm imNrlance to the chess hnlorian
The best-knosn English version. Iornerly attri
tnre,l h Oliver G.ld\miih has lhese lines:
soon altrr lhn. th. hcNenlvvicror broushl
Thc g.nc on eadh. and 6Et {hIr.li.ns ktr3ht.
Fo. (asrhey \ayl tair Scxcdrn hc csp'ed
Feedinghr cyAncb nr thc silveriide.
(Sc..chn. lhc lolelied serird olrhc pln.c)
And as \he iryd. took hq !o his cnbracc