Alex Crisovan

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Alex Crisovan-Eichenberger (born October 2, 1919 in Békéscsaba , Hungary ; † November 28, 2012 in Pfäffikon ZH ) was a Swiss chess journalist , author and official.

Life

Alex Crisovan was born in the Kingdom of Hungary a few months after the collapse of the Federative Hungarian Socialist Soviet Republic . He learned to play chess at the age of eight. When he was 13 years old, he came to Lucerne . He donated his extensive chess book collection to the Zurich Central Library in 2010 . He was married, had children and lived in Pfäffikon in Zurich.

chess

His first chess club in Switzerland was the Lucerne Chess Society, founded in 1875 . In 1950 and 1951 he was able to win the Masons Cup of the Central Switzerland Chess Association. In 1962 he won the Zurich city championship. He played chess well into old age. At the age of 92, he played his last games in March 2011 in the 4th Swiss league.

In 1989 he won the Swiss championship in correspondence chess .

He was the founder of the Central Switzerland Chess Association and a founding member of the Swiss Correspondence Chess Association . At the Swiss Chess Federation he was an official for chess history and since 1989, the eleventh person to be awarded this honorary member.

From 1973 to 1978 Alex Crisovan was editor of the Swiss chess newspaper . Until 1986 he was editor of the chess week . His successor there was Heinz Wirthensohn . Alex Crisovan was a member of the Ken Whyld Association .

Publications

  • The best of Caissa's realm. Selected games from current tournaments with Caissa chess correspondence attached . Zurich 1958–1961 (periodical as editor, together with Walter Kühnle)
  • World tournament Buenos Aires . Swiss Chess Service, Zurich 1960 (together with Walter Kühnle)
  • Bled, 1961: Mednarodni Jubilejni Sahovski Veleturnier . Swiss Chess Service, Zurich 1961 (together with Walter Kühnle)
  • Sixth European team championship 1976 in the USSR, elimination of group II in Montana-Crans, 11th to 17th January 1976 . 1976 (with Kurt Riethmann)
  • WM 76 Biel-Switzerland. Interzone tournament. 9. u. 10th international open, international youth tournament, international blitz tournament . Biel 1976 (together with Hans Suri and Janos Flesch )
  • 1889-1979. 90 years of the Swiss Chess Federation . Swiss Chess Federation, Zurich 1979 (together with Kurt Riethmann)
  • Banja Luka . Sinal, 1987 (together with Siniša Joksić , with photographs by Crisovan, Joksić and Miloš Petronić)
  • 54th Championship USSR . 1987
  • 55th Championship USSR . 1988 (together with Siniša Joksić)
  • 1889-1989. 100 years of the Swiss Chess Federation . Zürcher AG, Zug 1989.
  • Alois Nagler and the Nagler Memorial Tournament Zurich 1998 . Schachgesellschaft Zürich, Zürich 2007, ISBN 978-3-033-00981-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Farewell on the website of the Swiss Seniors Chess Association
  2. ↑ Minutes of the regular assembly of delegates of the SSB on June 19, 2010 in Bern ( PDF ; 78 kB)
  3. ^ List of the Cup winners of the Central Switzerland Chess Association
  4. ↑ Alex Crisovan's rating card ( memento from April 20, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) at the Swiss Chess Federation
  5. ↑ Swiss chess newspaper from 2001, page 11 ( Memento of February 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 584 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Crisovan, Alex
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Crisovan-Eichenberger, Alex (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss chess journalist, author and official
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Békéscsaba , Hungary
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 2012
Place of death Pfäffikon ZH