Gedeon Barcza

Gedeon Barcza, 1961
Association	Hungary
Born	August 21, 1911 Kisújszállás , Austria-Hungary
Died	February 27, 1986 Budapest
title	International Master (1950) Grand Master (1954)
Best Elo rating	2490 (July 1971)

Gedeon Barcza [ ˈɡɛdɛon ˈbɒrʦɒ ] (born August 21, 1911 in Kisújszállás , † February 27, 1986 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian chess player .

Life

Gedeon Barcza - Paul Keres at the European Team Championship Oberhausen 1961

Gedeon Barcza grew up in Debrecen and studied mathematics .

At first he worked as a teacher for mathematics and physics at a middle school, from 1951 he worked as a chess journalist.

Close chess

In close chess he won the national championship of Hungary eight times between 1942 and 1966.

He played at the unofficial Chess Olympiad Chess Olympia 1936 in Munich, which Hungary won. He also represented his country at seven Chess Olympiads from 1952 to 1968 ( 1952 , 1954 , 1956 , 1958 , 1960 , 1962 and 1968 ). He reached third place with the team in 1956, in the individual classification he achieved the best result on the third in 1954, the second best result on the second in 1956 and the third best result on the reserve board in 1968.

He played in three European team championships , reaching third place with the team in 1961 and 1965, second place in 1970 and in 1965 achieved the best result on the fifth board.

Barcza took part in the interzonal tournaments in Saltsjöbaden in 1952 and in Stockholm in 1962 . In 1950 he was named International Master by FIDE and then Grand Master in 1954 .

He achieved his best historical rating of 2683 in December 1951.

Correspondence chess

At the correspondence chess Olympiads in 1937/39 and 1947/52, he contributed significantly to the victory of the Hungarian team. In 1941/42 he became a Hungarian correspondence chess master.

journalist

Gravestone of Gedeon Barcza

Barcza also worked as a chess journalist and author. From 1951 he was editor-in-chief of the leading Hungarian chess magazine Magyar sakkélet and published in 1959 (together with László Alföldy and Jenő Kapu ) a history of the world chess champions , which was also published in German in 1975.

Chess style

Barcza was known for its positional style. The opening structure he preferred , which was characterized by the moves 1. Nf3, 2. g3 and 3. Bg2, was called the Barcza system .

swell

• WA Földeak: Gedeon Barcza turned 70! Schach-Echo 1981, Heft 16, pp. 252 and 253 (life, annotated game).

Web links

Commons : Gedeon Barcza  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Gedeon Barcza in the catalog of the German National Library
• Replayable chess games by Gedeon Barcza on chessgames.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gedeon Barcza's results at unofficial chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
2. ↑ Gedeon Barcza's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
3. ↑ Gedeon Barcza's results at the European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
4. ^ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 74.
5. ↑ Chessmetrics Player Profile April 22, 2006 (English)