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Latest Chess news from Belgium
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The last report from Budapest, chess city par excellence, where all eyes were also on in the 1990s because one Bobby Fischer, who most probably descended from a Hungarian father (the physicist Dr Pal Nemeyi), lived there from 1993 to 2000. By the way, his rematch against Boris Spasski in 1992 was mainly due to a Hungarian player, Zita Rajcsanyi. …
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In the Interclubs Manager the planning module has become active, meaning that all clubs can input their teams for the first round of next Sunday. Also there is an imported bugfix: the excel download of the playerlist contains the players imported from another club.
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Lajos Portisch, who we presented in our yesterday's report, got to play the first move at the Olympiads today and he received recognition for all his achievements. Yet he is certainly not the only living legend of Hungarian chess. In women's chess too, Hungary grew into a top country and a great candidate for medals in the Olympiads. Until the …
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A country where chess was so popular would naturally put itself on the chess map. Laszlo Szabo took over from Gena Maroczy as best player. Gedeon Barcza (1911-1986) would mainly dedicate himself to patriotic chess as a writer and trainer. Together, from 1951, they would inspire an awful lot of Hungarians through the chess magazine Magyar Sakkélet. Popularity would also …
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Due to the many commissions I try to attend in Budapest, yesterday's report has been delayed for a while.... My apologies. Hungary did not just go through a period of poverty after WWI. In fact, it also had to cope with an identity shift. The Austrian empire had disintegrated and German culture became less pronounced. As a result, Jewish culture …
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FRBE (ASBL) - KBSB (VZW) - KSB (VoG)
Frans Vekemansstraat 131, 1120 Brussel
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