Sándor Takács (chess player)

Sándor Takács (born February 10, 1893 as Károly Sydlauer in Miskolc , † April 22, 1932 in Budapest ; sometimes referred to as Alexander Takács ) was a Hungarian chess player .

Takács, who came from a wealthy family, studied oriental studies in Budapest until the outbreak of World War I , but broke off his studies as a result of the war events in which he participated as a soldier. During the war, he sustained two serious injuries, and one shot in the lung "marked the beginning of a long-term illness from which he finally perished."

After the war, Takács devoted himself entirely to the game of chess and became one of the leading players in Hungary in the 1920s. He took part in numerous international tournaments during this period and achieved several successes: in 1926 he was shared third (with Ernst Grünfeld and Hans Kmoch ) at the first tournament officially organized by FIDE in Budapest, in 1928 he won together with Ernst Grünfeld in Vienna , At the turn of the year 1928/29 he won the traditional tournament of Hastings together with Edgard Colle and Frank James Marshall . He also had successful participations in the tournaments of Meran 1924 (6th place), Kecskemét 1927 (5th place) and Rogaška Slatina 1929 (shared third, whereby Takács managed to win over the tournament winner Akiba Rubinstein ). In 1930 he finished second in Antwerp behind Salo Flohr .

In 1930 he took part with the Hungarian national team at the Chess Olympiad in Hamburg , where the Hungarians won a silver medal. Takács scored 8.5 points from 14 games.

Takács spent the last two years of his life in the Netherlands and Belgium , where he took part in numerous chess events. He died in Budapest from the long-term effects of his war injuries.

Web links

• Compositions by Sándor Takács (chess player) on the Swallow's PDB server

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans Müller: Obituary for Alexander Takacs in the Reichspost of May 22, 1932, p. 22
2. ↑ Sándor Takács' results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)