| Jan-23-03 | | Ashley: Does anyone know what the Balla Variation is? |
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| Jan-27-03 | | PVS: I do not know, but I would begin by looking at a monograph on the Ruy Lopez Closed if I wanted to know. |
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| Jan-28-03 | | Ashley: You were right, I found it. It is a long variation of the Lopez. |
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| Jan-28-03 | | refutor: i did a little digging up too...basically it's the position after 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 d6 8.c3 Na5 9.Bc2 c5 10.d4 Qc7 11.a4 almost the Tchigorin variation but not quite (no h3 for white, no O-O for black and white threw in a4). it's an interesting variation, but i'd likely play 10.h3 to stop ...Bg4 |
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| Jan-28-03 | | Ashley: Yes, that is what I found. |
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Dec-21-04
 | | Benzol: Zoltan von Balla
Born 31st August 1883 in Budapest
Died 1st April 1945 also in Budapest.
He was Hugarian champion in 1906 and shared the title in 1911. |
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| Aug-31-06 | | Ziggurat: von Balla used to participate in many of the same tournaments as Breyer, and played some nice games with him. Although Breyer was stronger on the whole, von Balla was not so far behind him which makes their games interesting. |
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| Aug-31-10 | | BIDMONFA: Zoltan Von Balla VON BALLA, Zoltan
http://www.bidmonfa.com/von_balla_z...
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Jan-08-11
 | | GrahamClayton: von Balla was one of the 36 players who competed in the 1906 Ostende tournament. He tied with Duras in Group A of Stage One with a score of 5/8, but did not progress to Stage 2 after a tie-break. What would have been galling for von Balla was that players with lower scores in Groups B, C and D advanced. |
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| Feb-22-11 | | Maatalkko: Balla was a legit playa. He was competitive vs some of the best of his day. Perhaps, had the 19 year old Balla been luckier at Ostende, we would have heard more of him. Ostende helped launch Nimzowitsch's career. |
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| Nov-02-13 | | Karpova: Hungary arranged a tournament to decide the players of the 1924 Paris Chess Olympiad: 1. Z von Balla 9.5
2. Havasi 8.5
3. Sterk 7.5
4-5. Andreas Steiner 7.0
4-5. Szigeti 7.0
So Hungary planned to send Balla, Havasi and Sterk. Additionally Dr. Vajda who couldn't participate in this tournament due to an illness. Possible reserve players are he brothers Steiner and Jakab. Abonyi will accompany them and give a 110-board Simul in Paris. From page 189 of the July 1924 'Neue Wiener Schachzeitung' For those interested, the 1924 Olympiad: http://www.olimpbase.org/1924x/1924... |
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| Jan-22-14 | | Karpova: More information on http://www.edochess.ca/tournaments/... This was the Winter tournament of the Győri Sakkör (Győr Chess Club) which ended at the beginning of May, 1912. It was split into 2 groups and this is the 1st group. It was a 7-player double round-robin tournament. 1. von Balla 9.5
2. Chalupetzky 8.5
3. Szekely 7.0
4-5. Balazs 6.5
4-5. Exner 6.5
6. Renyi 4.0
7. Meszey 0.0
Two important details: One game between von Balla and Balazs was not played and scored as a win for Balazs. Furthermore, Meszey withdrew from the tournament and all of his games were counted as losses. Von Balla scored +9 -2 =1 (counted: loss from the game not played). I add the result of the 2nd group:
1. Deutsch 10.5
2. Meller 8.0
3-4. Szvoboda 6.5
3-4. Herczeg 6.5
5. Fridrich 5.5
6. Weisz 4.0
7. Salgo 1.0
Source: Page 176 of the May-June 1912 'Wiener Schachzeitung' |
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| Aug-31-16 | | morfishine: Wow, what a way to go: this guy apparently got run over by a tank. ***** |
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Feb-05-17
 | | Stonehenge: Slightly better photo than BIDMONFA's:
http://m.cdn.blog.hu/sa/sakk-mester... |
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| Jan-21-18 | | zanzibar: Kingpin has this photograph:
http://www.kingpinchess.net/wp-cont... What source? |
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| Jan-22-19 | | login:
Hungarian Chess Championship, Budapest 1911
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2i3f21HO... from
'Világunk 64 Mezön', by Andras Ozsvath, Budapest 1978, p.360-361 |
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Jul-10-20
 | | perfidious: <morf: Wow, what a way to go: this guy apparently got run over by a tank.> And we have a poster in the Rogovian miasma who merely threatens to run over ideological opponents like a Mack truck.... |
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