Ferenc Chalupetzky

Ferenc Chalupetzky (born April 6, 1886 in Magyaróvár , † August 19, 1951 in Győr ) was a Hungarian chess author and chess player. He is one of the pioneers of correspondence chess .

Chess author

In 1935 Chalupetzky published the first book about a correspondence chess tournament : The large distance tournament of the International Correspondence Chess Federation (IFSB) for the 1932 federal championship . This book was widely recognized in the chess world, among other things. a. also from the world champion Alekhine . It contributed significantly to the fact that correspondence chess was recognized as being equivalent to tournament chess. Chalupetzky also published other valuable books, for example about the Győr chess tournament in 1924 .

Chalupetzky was also one of the participants at the conference of the correspondence chess association IFSB in Munich in 1936, when a commission was set up to prepare a world championship in correspondence chess.

Chess player

Chalupetzky played a number of international tournaments, including some remote tournaments. Although he did not belong to the absolute top, he achieved several victories on the board over well-known chess masters, for example against Breyer (Budapest 1911) and Emanuel Lasker (Győr 1917, simultaneous game). He drew against Marshall in Győr in 1911.

In 1903 he played his first long-distance games. In 1905 he took part in a tournament organized by the chess sponsor Prince Dadian von Mingrelien . In 1906, 1907 and 1908 he took first place in Hungarian long-distance tournaments. In 1911 he won two long-distance tournaments organized by the Wiener Schachzeitung. He achieved further victories in tournaments of the Reichspost and the Swiss chess newspaper .

Private

After studying law, Chalupetzky worked as a judge in Győr from 1920. He died in 1951 of a stomach ailment.

Web links

• Literature by and about Ferenc Chalupetzky in the catalog of the German National Library