Elod Macskasy
Number of games in database: 45
Years covered: 1947 to 1981
Overall record: +14 -18 =13 (45.6%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.

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A42		Modern Defense, Averbakh System (5 games)
B06		Robatsch (3 games)
E20		Nimzo-Indian (3 games)
D02		Queen's Pawn Game (2 games)
D58		Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst (2 games)
B01		Scandinavian (2 games)
A07		King's Indian Attack (2 games)
D94		Grunfeld (2 games)

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ELOD MACSKASY (born Apr-17-1919, died Jan-21-1990) Hungary (citizen of Canada) [what is this?] A U of British Columbia mathematician by trade for 3 decades, he won the 1958 Canadian Open. He also played 4th board in 1964 & 3rd board in 1968 for Canada at the Olympiad. references: http://www.olimpbase.org/, http://www.chess.ca/, http://www.fide.com/

page 1 of 2; games 1-25 of 45  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. E Macskasy vs J Balogh   ½-½ 48 1947 HUN-ch E06 Catalan, Closed, 5.Nf3 2. E McCormick vs E Macskasy   0-1 18 1960 Washington-BC m E78 King's Indian, Four Pawns Attack, with Be2 and Nf3 3. Yanofsky vs E Macskasy   1-0 56 1961 Vancouver m B01 Scandinavian 4. E Macskasy vs Yanofsky   0-1 42 1961 Vancouver m E97 King's Indian 5. E Macskasy vs Anatole Kostjoerin   ½-½ 41 1964 Tel Aviv ol (Men) A07 King's Indian Attack 6. E Macskasy vs C Zuidema   0-1 41 1964 Tel Aviv ol (Men) E20 Nimzo-Indian 7. E Macskasy vs L Roux Cabral   1-0 25 1964 Tel Aviv ol (Men) D02 Queen's Pawn Game 8. Bobotsov vs E Macskasy   1-0 39 1964 Tel Aviv ol (Men) fin-A A42 Modern Defense, Averbakh System 9. C Radovici vs E Macskasy   1-0 46 1964 Tel Aviv ol (Men) B06 Robatsch 10. J Kristinsson vs E Macskasy   ½-½ 40 1964 Tel Aviv ol (Men) D59 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower 11. Spassky vs E Macskasy   1-0 41 1964 Tel Aviv ol (Men) A42 Modern Defense, Averbakh System 12. Raul Cruz vs E Macskasy   ½-½ 31 1964 Tel Aviv ol (Men) D31 Queen's Gambit Declined 13. E Macskasy vs Sliwa   1-0 41 1964 Tel Aviv ol (Men) fin-A A90 Dutch 14. Alejandro Cevallos vs E Macskasy   ½-½ 30 1964 Tel Aviv ol (Men) A57 Benko Gambit 15. K Darga vs E Macskasy   1-0 40 1964 Tel Aviv ol (Men) fin-A A42 Modern Defense, Averbakh System 16. E Macskasy vs R Fuchs 1-0 39 1964 Tel Aviv ol(Men) D14 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Exchange Variation 17. R Leonard vs E Macskasy 1-0 68 1965 CAN-ch D58 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst 18. Schulman vs E Macskasy   0-1 57 1965 CAN-ch B27 Sicilian 19. E Macskasy vs Potter   1-0 37 1965 CAN-ch D94 Grunfeld 20. E Macskasy vs Yanofsky   ½-½ 54 1965 CAN-ch B12 Caro-Kann Defense 21. R Kerr vs E Macskasy   0-1 58 1965 CAN-ch B06 Robatsch 22. E Macskasy vs L Joyner   0-1 40 1965 CAN-ch A07 King's Indian Attack 23. Suttles vs E Macskasy   ½-½ 10 1965 CAN-ch C28 Vienna Game 24. E Macskasy vs Geller   ½-½ 14 1968 Lugano Ol E92 King's Indian 25. J Roose vs E Macskasy   ½-½ 58 1968 Lugano ol (Men) B18 Caro-Kann, Classical  page 1 of 2; games 1-25 of 45

Oct-25-06    refutor: Macskasy = E Macskasy = Elod Macskasy http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~bw998/C... Jul-26-08    lentil: pronounced mash-KAh-zy. I remember a kindly old gent who was far more polite to this 1200-rated potz than etiquette required. Jul-26-08    kramputz: <lentil: pronounced mash-KAh-zy. I remember a kindly old gent who was far more polite to this 1200-rated potz than etiquette required.> It is a Hungarian name and pronounced: mahch-kah-she . Macska in Hungarian: means : cat Jul-26-08    kramputz: January 21 1990 Elod Macskasy, mathematics teacher and chess player, died in Vancouver. He was born in Hungary April 17, 1919, came to Vancouver in 1956. Wrote Nathan Divinsky, a friend and fellow chess enthusiast, “He taught mathematics at UBC for over 30 years, and was B.C.'s top chess player for most of that time. He won the Canadian Open Championship in 1958 and had a great influence on all the young B.C. chess players. He played on a number of Canadian Olympic chess teams, and always with distinction. In the late ’50s and early ’60s, he often could be found at the old Heidelberg Restaurant on Robsonstrasse, the hangout for European immigrants. Macskasy was a gentle, artistic man, a wonderful friend.” http://www.vancouverhistory.ca/chro... Jul-26-08    whiteshark: His Chess Olympiads participation: http://www.olimpbase.org/players/wc...

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