Lajos Portisch

Lajos Portisch, Reykjavík 2008
Association	Hungary
Born	April 4, 1937 Zalaegerszeg
title	International Master (1958) Grand Master (1961)
Current  Elo rating	2467 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2655 (January 1980)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Lajos Portisch [ ˈlɒjoʃ ˈportiʃ ] (born April 4, 1937 in Zalaegerszeg ) is a Hungarian chess player .

Life

Lajos Portisch (recording from 2005)

Lajos Portisch learned to play chess at the age of 12 and improved continuously. In 1955 he took part in the youth world championship in Antwerp, where he finished 4th. In 1958 he received the title of International Master .

Portisch during the 1980 Chess Olympiad in Valletta, Malta

Between 1958 and 1981 he won the Hungarian championship nine times. He has been a grandmaster since 1961 . Between 1965 and 1989 Portisch qualified seven times for the candidates' tournament and made it to the semi-finals there in 1977 and 1980. He is considered an excellent positional player and also one of the most hard-working grandmasters. According to his own statements, he spent eight hours a day playing chess for many years. Together with Balázs Sárközy he published a book in 1986 with the title 600 Endspiele ISBN 3-87144-810-9 .

In 2002 Portisch was made an honorary member of the world chess federation FIDE . He received the highest sporting award in Hungary in 2004, he became the nation's athlete . In 2016 an asteroid was named after Lajos Portisch: (154493) Portisch .

His younger brother Ferenc (born April 9, 1939) is also a chess player and holds the title of International Master.

Game example

Portisch-Petrosyan

	a	b	c	d	e	f	G	H
8th									8th
7th									7th
6th									6th
5									5
4th									4th
3									3
2									2
1									1
	a	b	c	d	e	f	G	H

End position after 24. Bxf5

In the following game Portisch defeated the world champion Petrosyan with the white pieces in Moscow in 1967 in a well-run attacking game.

Portisch-Petrosjan 1-0

Moscow, May 26, 1967

Slav Defense , D10

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. cxd5 cxd5 4. Nc3 Nf6 5. Nf3 Nc6 6. Bf4 e6 7. e3 Bd6 8. Bg3 0–0 9. Bd3 Re8 10. Ne5 Bxe5 11. dxe5 Nd7 12. f4 Qb6 13. 0–0 Qxe3 + 14. Kh1 Qb6 15. Qh5 Nf8 16. Rf3 Ng6 17. Bf2 Qd8 18. Nb5 Nce7 19. Nd6 Bd7 20. Bh4 Qb6 21.Rh3 h6 22. Bf6 Qxb2 23.Rf1 Nf5 24. Bxf5 1 : 0

National team

Between 1956 and 2000 , Portisch took part in 20 Chess Olympiads for Hungary and set several records: Most of the participations (20; the record has since been exceeded by Eugenio Torre , who played his 21st Chess Olympiad in 2012 and also took part in 2014 and 2016 ), games played (260; this record has since been surpassed by Eugenio Torre, who played 270 games after the 2016 Chess Olympiad) and scored points (176.5). The greatest success with the national team was winning the 1978 Chess Olympiad in Buenos Aires ahead of the favored Soviet team; he also achieved three second ( 1970 in Siegen , 1972 in Skopje and 1980 in Valletta ) and two thirds (1956 in Moscow and 1966 ) with the team in Havana ) places. In the individual ranking he reached second place on the first board in 1988 and second on the second board in 1994 and third place on the first board in 1964 . In 1988 and 1994 he also achieved the third-best rating of all participants. He also reached second place in the 1985 team world championships and took part in eight European team championships between 1961 and 1992 . He achieved three second (1970, 1977 and 1980) and four third (1961, 1965, 1973 and 1983) places with the team, in the individual ranking he achieved the best individual result on the second board in 1961 and on the first board in 1983, in 1965 and 1977 the second best as well as the third best result on the top board in 1970, 1973 and 1980.

Lajos Portisch (back left), László Szabó , Wolfgang Unzicker (standing right) at the 1961 European team championship in Oberhausen

In 1970 Portisch was nominated for the USSR against the rest of the world competition and defeated Viktor Korchnoi on the third board with 2.5: 1.5.

societies

Portisch used to play for MTK Budapest FC , with whom he took part in the European Club Cup four times between 1979 and 1990 , and later until 2006 for Csuti Antal SK Zalaegerszeg , with whom he was Hungarian team champion in 2002 , 2003 , 2004 , 2005 , 2006 and between In 2001 and 2005 he took part in the European Club Cup four times, and from 2009 to 2012 for the Aquaprofit NTSK team , with whom he became champions in 2010 , 2011 and 2012 .

Works

• My Secrets in the Ruy Lopez . Gambit Publishing, London 2017, ISBN 1-911465-11-2 .

literature

• Egon Varnusz: Lajos Portisch . Verlag Harri Deutsch, Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-8171-1101-0 .

Web links

Commons : Lajos Portisch  - Collection of Images

• Literature by and about Lajos Portisch in the catalog of the German National Library
• Replayable chess games by Lajos Portisch on 365Chess.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dagobert Kohlmeyer : Lajos Portisch for the 75th In: de.chessbase.com. April 4, 2012, Retrieved October 25, 2019.
2. ^ Dagobert Kohlmeyer: Lajos Portisch for his 80th birthday . In: de.chessbase.com. April 4, 2017. Retrieved October 22, 2019.
3. ↑ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 75.
4. ↑ Honorary Members of FIDE (English)
5. ↑ Lajos Portisch became the nation's athlete ( Memento of May 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ Eugenio Torres Results at Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
7. ↑ Lajos Portisch's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
8. ↑ Lajos Portisch's results at the World Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
9. ↑ Lajos Portisch's results at the European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
10. ↑ ^{a b} Lajos Portisch's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)