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The fireworks are spectacular events always. In the recent past I saw two real fireworks in August at Balaton Lake from the window of my house. 20 August is a national day in Hungary. This is the feast of first Hungarian King. (Saint Stephanus, re... | Read More
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In New York Alekhine held a blindfold simul on 26 board. It happened in 17 April, 1924. The final result: +16 –5 =5. In this game Alekhine presented the evening meal for his adversary in form „mate in 3” or „mate in 4”. His opponent ... | Read More
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Here is the front page of the book about this Olympiad.
István Bilek wrote in this book:
We were turning into the finishing straight with half point before the great rival as it is said: their breath hits our nape already.
XII. round, 3 Dece... | Read More
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In 8, May, after 3 days of his 99th birthday died GM Andor Lilienthal the great old man of Universal Chess-playing. In his life he defeated 6 world champions and achieved numerous successes. One of these there was in the Warsaw Olympiad in 1935.... | Read More
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The XXIVth Chess Olympiad took place in a Knightly Hospital which had built in the 16th century. This Hall is in the Mediterranean Conference Centre. The Hall is one of largest halls in Europe, its lenght is 161 m, width is 12 m. (on the pict... | Read More
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This headline is identical with the title of a Hungarian chess-book about this Chess Olympiad. Grandmaster István Bilek edited this book in 1982. 30 years ago this result was the best result of Hungarian Chessplaying. At men this was the final ... | Read More
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Now I demonstrate two games where Alekhine was playing against his opening the Alekhine Defense. The first played during a blindfold simul in Paris in 1925.
In February 1925 Alekhine broke the world blindfold record by playing 28 games blindfold ... | Read More
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This article is connecting to my previous articles: „The Cozma monument” and „Mediaeval church…”
This monument was establihed to memory of a Roumanian handball player Marian Cozma.
The inauguration event happened in 6 February, 2010 (o... | Read More
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It was to be wished that read fresh chess news and for this reason gleaned in the French chess journal in „Le Palaméde” of the 1846 volume. This journal was published in Paris in monthly. The journal earlier was edited by La Bourdonnais but h... | Read More
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In this game Alekhine demonstrated the case when the Pawn is stronger as the Queen. In the Hungarian language the names of chess pieces have two expressions – except the King. We have an official and a popular expression of chess pieces. Here I... | Read More