Kornel Havasi

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Kornél Havasi (born January 10, 1892 in Budapest , † January 15, 1945 in Bruck an der Leitha ) was a Hungarian chess player .

chess

Havasi won the tournament in Budapest in 1911, shared fourth to fifth in Budapest 1917, fourth in Budapest 1918, shared ninth to eleventh in Košice in 1918, shared winner with Szávay in Budapest 1920 and sixth in Gyula in 1921. At the tournament in Budapest 1923 was he third and in Gyula 1923 shared sixth to seventh. In Debrecen in 1925 he took sixth to tenth place at the Maróczy anniversary tournament, third to fourth place in Budapest 1926 and 12th to 14th place at the first FIDE tournament in Budapest in 1926. After tied seventh to eighth place in Budapest in 1928, he won the tournament in Mezökövesd in 1929.

In Sopron 1934 Havasi was fourth, in Budapest in 1934 at the Maróczy anniversary tournament fifth to sixth and in Budapest (Ujpest) in 1934 he reached the shared 12th to 14th place. Tatatovaros in 1935 saw Havasi in fifth to sixth place, Milan in 1938 in third to fourth place and finally the Dori memorial tournament in 1939 in fourth to sixth place.

Havasi took part in several Hungarian chess championships , his greatest success being winning the competition in Budapest in 1922.

National team

Havasi took part with Hungary in the 1927 Chess Olympiads in London, 1928 in The Hague, 1930 in Hamburg, 1931 in Prague, 1933 in Folkestone, 1935 in Warsaw and 1937 in Stockholm, as well as the unofficial Chess Olympiads in 1924 in Paris and 1936 in Munich. With the team he won in 1927, 1928 and 1936 and reached second place in 1924, 1930 and 1937, in the individual ranking he achieved the second-best result on the third board in 1935.

Private

Havasi's book A soproni jubiláris sakkverseny, 1934 , was published in Budapest in 1935.

Kornél Havasi died as a Nazi slave laborer in 1945 in Bruck an der Leitha, Austria.

Individual references and sources

  1. ↑ Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's Chess Tournament Crosstables ( Memento from April 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Roger Paige's website at me.uk
  3. ↑ Kornél Havasi's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  4. ↑ Kornél Havasis results at unofficial chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  5. ↑ Játékkönyvek ( Memento of the original from June 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Hungarian) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.homoludens.hu
  6. ↑ Petra Weiß, Irmtraut Karlsson: Die Toten von Bruck . Berndorf 2008.

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personal data
SURNAME Havasi, Kornel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Havasi, Kornel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian chess player
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 1945
Place of death Bruck an der Leitha , Austria