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Besieged Romans in the castle of Veszprém – Gesta Hungarorum

Submitted by cgs on Thu Nov 19, 2009 2:25am.

P. master the notary of Hungarian King III. Béla (1172-1196 AD) wrote down the history of Hungarian people. His work is visible in Budapest. This history was written in Latin between 1196 and 1203. Anonymus (P. master) gave the title of his work:... Read more »

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Mediaeval Church and opening of late Middle Ages

Submitted by cgs on Fri Oct 16, 2009 1:23pm.

This article is connected with my previous article. There is in territory of Romania – where are living Hungarian population – in a little village in Székelyderzs (Darjiu in Romanian) a fortified Church from the early Middle Ages. Today the ... Read more »

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The Cozma monument

Submitted by cgs on Sat Sep 26, 2009 7:38am.

I’m writing these rows from Veszprém city where in 9 February died the Romanian handball player Marian Cozma in consequence of gipsy band’s attack. He was the member of Romanian representative team and MKB Veszprém team. Here in chess.com... Read more »

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A real Alekhine game

Submitted by cgs on Sun Aug 30, 2009 6:18am.

                                            In my previous article demonstrated an interesting game of Alekhine. According to a number of people Alekhine made it up. Now i read in his biography that in... Read more »

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Alekhine’s Guinness record: five Queens on the chessboard – at the same time

Submitted by cgs on Sun Aug 23, 2009 6:15am.

Generally there aren’t five Queens in a real chessgame. Earlier was demonstrated four Queens in my article. (Four Queens on the chessboard) Then was playing another chess giant: Andor Lilienthal. Now Alekhine plays with Nikolay Grigoriev who wa... Read more »

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Bowler hat and blood of a snail – the most beautiful game in Dresden

Submitted by cgs on Sat Mar 14, 2009 2:01am.

The first Hungarian who played chess was Beatrix Queen the wife of Mathew Corvinus King (Mathias Rex). The Queen played chess with the Czech King in July, 1479. On the first picture there is the bust of Beatrix from the Louvre. She wore crown on h... Read more »

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Veni, vidi, vici – Morphy on the diamond-sky

Submitted by cgs on Sat Feb 28, 2009 6:59am.

It was the motto of great emperor (imperator) Caesar. Morphy toke Caesar’s advice when arrived to Europa and swept the European chess kings. But Morphy not only came, saw and won, he was still famous by his exhibitions of blidfold play. Neverthe... Read more »

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According to the ancient pagan custom Alekhine sacrificed his dark-coloured horse

Submitted by cgs on Sun Jan 25, 2009 8:53am.

In an interesting way in the Hungarian language the chess pieces are called as dark- and light-coloured pieces. The knight is called as hussar, and so thus we have arrived to the dark-coloured horse, which was the next to the last sacrifice of Ale... Read more »

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Morphyologia

Submitted by cgs on Tue Dec 23, 2008 4:19am.

It happened 13 years ago. At the beginning of December was published a Morphy-book in Hungary, in my editing, in Hungarian language. My good friend grandmaster István Bilek scrutinized the manuscript and wrote an article in the „Sportissimo” ... Read more »

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When the Black Queen enticed the White King from his throne – in a Fischer game

Submitted by cgs on Fri Dec 19, 2008 10:52am.

The story revived in the Olympiad in Leipzig in 1960. In the Letelier – Fischer game was a protagonist on the chessboard: the Black Queen. She sent her Rooks forward to raise the White King from his throne, from f2 to e3. As it happened in that... Read more »

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