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László Bárczay

László Bárczay

Hungarian chess grandmaster (1936–2016)

László Bárczay (21 February 1936 – 7 April 2016) was a Hungarian chess Grandmaster.[2][3]

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Biography

In 1966 he was awarded the FIDE International Master title.[2] At the 1966 Olympiad in Havana, he scored 11/12 (ten wins and two draws) as second reserve for the bronze medal-winning Hungarian team, winning the individual gold medal for sixth board.[4] In 1967 he was awarded the Grandmaster title.[2]

Other tournament successes include:

From 1972 to 1976 he was the editor of the Magyar Sakkélet. During this time he took up correspondence chess, and was awarded the ICCF International Master title in 1973.[2] Bárczay earned the ICCF Grandmaster title in 1979[2] after finishing equal first in the Vidmar memorial tournament between 1975 and 1979.

References

  1. [1]
    Dortmunder Schachtage 1982 – Tabelle des Großmeisterturnieres on TeleSchach
  2. [2]
    Gaige, Jeremy (1987), Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography, McFarland, p. 23, ISBN 0-7864-2353-6
  3. [3]
    Bárczay László (1936–2016) (in Hungarian)
  4. [4]
    László Bárczay Chess Olympiad Record at olimpbase.org, retrieved 24 March 2013
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