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    Lajos Portisch (born 4 April 1937) is a Hungarian chess Grandmaster, whose positional style earned him the nickname, the "Hungarian Botvinnik". One of...
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  • World, 1970: Lajos Portisch comments". Chessbase. Archived from the original on 15 September 2020. Retrieved 15 September 2020. "Lajos Portisch comments on...
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    winners, including Max Euwe, Bent Larsen, Tigran Petrosian, Paul Keres, Lajos Portisch, Boris Spassky, Mikhail Botvinnik, Mikhail Tal, Viktor Korchnoi, Jan...
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  • journalist and author In chess: Lajos Portisch, Hungarian chess player Lajos Steiner, Hungarian chess player In other fields: Lajos Bárdos, Hungarian composer...
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    the tournament behind his trainer Alexander Beliavsky and tied with Lajos Portisch (one of the strongest non-Soviet players in the second half of the 20th...
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  • the FIDE equivalents. Elo gives an example of amending the rating of Lajos Portisch, a 2635-rated player before his tournament, who scores 10½ points of...
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    László Szabó, Gedeon Barcza, Pál Benkő, György Szilágyi, Miklós Bély, Lajos Portisch 1958 13th Chess Olympiad Munich, West Germany  Soviet Union 34½ Mikhail...
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    1965, he lost the final match against Boris Spassky, after defeating Lajos Portisch and Bent Larsen in matches. Exempt from the 1967 Sousse Interzonal in...
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    although finishing last (23rd place), he inflicted defeats on grandmasters Lajos Portisch and Wolfgang Uhlmann. Aaron also played thrice with the Indian team...
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  • 2690 1971-07 5 Bent Larsen 2660 1971-07 Mikhail Tal 2660 1973-07 7 Lajos Portisch 2650 1973-07 8 Tigran Petrosian 2645 1972-07 Lev Polugaevsky 2645 1972-07...
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    Zdroj 1957, equal first with Taimanov at Dresden 1959, equal first with Lajos Portisch at Beverwijk 1965, clear first at Kislovodsk 1966, clear first at Gothenburg...
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    Lajos Portisch and John Nunn tied for third. The last place in the Candidates Tournament was decided in a separate playoff in Budapest, with Portisch...
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    took place across ten boards. He played four games with Hungarian GM Lajos Portisch, drawing three and losing one. In 1984, eight years after his defection...
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    ahead of Alexander Beliavsky. The Toluca Interzonal was won jointly by Lajos Portisch and Eugenio Torre. Tal and Andersson contested a playoff in Malmö for...
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    He finished 2nd at the 1963 Halle Zonal with 13/19, behind winner Lajos Portisch, to advance to the Interzonal the next year. At Belgrade 1964, he shared...
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    Bent Larsen on 17/23, with all four, along with Borislav Ivkov and Lajos Portisch thus qualifying for the newly created Candidates' Matches the next year...
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  • as a universal system ideal for club players by grandmasters such as Lajos Portisch, David Bronstein and Yasser Seirawan. Horton, Byrne Joseph (1972). Dictionary...
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  • "Greco vs. NN, 1620". Chessgames.com. Harding, p. 4 "Laszlo Barczay vs. Lajos Portisch (1969)". Chessgames.com. Retrieved 23 January 2019. "The Baron vs. Pandix...
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    second place contested a playoff in Portorož for the remaining two spots. Portisch and Polugaevsky qualified. The 1974 Candidates Tournament was played as...
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    Chess Olympiad equaling Lajos Portisch 2012 21st Appearance at Chess Olympiad held at Istanbul, Turkey, breaking his tie with Portisch 2014 22nd Appearance...
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    the sense that Black need not lose just because he moves second". GM Lajos Portisch opined in 1994, and was quoted in one of Adorján's books, that "at least...
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  • rule. Ljubojević vs. Portisch The Cochrane Defense was also used in this 1982 game between Ljubomir Ljubojević and Lajos Portisch. The Cochrane position...
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    Interzonal, where he had tied for 8th–9th with the Hungarian Champion Lajos Portisch. The final spot for advancement to the Candidates Match was at stake...
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    Bouaziz forfeited and Gruenfeld received a point. The Interzonal in Rio saw Portisch, Petrosian and Hübner share first place between them and all three advanced...
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    Petrosian, Portisch, and Tal contested a playoff in Varese later in the year for the remaining two spots, from which Petrosian and Portisch qualified....
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    the Soviet Union. Unzicker also shared fourth place (+2−1=15) with Lajos Portisch in the 1966 Piatigorsky Cup in Santa Monica, California. Only Boris...
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  • player Imre Polyák, Olympic and World Champion Greco-Roman wrestler Lajos Portisch (born 1937), chess player Ferenc Puskás (1927–2006), football (soccer)...
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    by Jan Timman, Ljubomir Ljubojević, Boris Spassky, Vlastimil Hort, Lajos Portisch, Robert Hübner, Bent Larsen and Lubomir Kavalek. He dominated Las Palmas...
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  • went on to win in 14 more moves. Portisch vs. Tal, 1965 Another instance of Zugzwang Lite occurred in Lajos Portisch–Mikhail Tal, Candidates Match 1965...
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  • Beliavsky Vasily Smyslov Alexander Chernin Lev Polugaevsky  Hungary Lajos Portisch Zoltán Ribli Gyula Sax Jozsef Pinter András Adorján Ivan Farago István...
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