Dec-29-04
 | | Benzol: Gyozo Victor Forintos
Born 30th July 1935 in Budapest
Awarded the IM title in 1963 and the GM title in 1974 he was also Hungarian champion in 1968-69. |
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| Jul-30-06 | | BIDMONFA: Gyozo V Forintos FORINTOS, Gyozo V.
http://www.bidmonfa.com/forintos_gy...
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| Mar-26-10 | | wordfunph: A photo taken at the 1978 Benedictine tournament shows the Hungarian Grandmaster Gyozo Forintos playing Tony Kosten. Not many years later they were father-in-law and son-in-law! |
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| Jul-30-10 | | wordfunph: GM Forintos turns 75 today, any news on him? |
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| Jun-19-11 | | biglo: Co-author of Petroff's Defence (Batsford, 1983) with Ervin Haag |
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| Oct-16-11 | | wordfunph: from Tibor Karolyi and Nick Aplin's book Genius in the Background.. <Grandmaster Forintos was a very strong player, but he was known for being very optimistic. Let me share with you one famous story about him. His opponent could have checkmated in two, so Forintos - rather cheekily one might think - offered a draw. His opponent declined, but missed the mate and
went on to lose. After the game the Hungarian grandmaster remarked, "Next time I should not be so pessimistic..."> |
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Feb-27-15
 | | Annie K.: <Gyözö Victor Forintos> Hmm... a couple of comments.
First, the correct accents are Győző, not Gyözö (both 'o's with double acute, not diaresis). Second, 'Victor' is very unlikely to be his actual middle name, since it's a translation of the meaning of his first name. :) |
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| Feb-28-15 | | Retireborn: <Annie> I thought it was not unusual for Hungarians to have a "German" name as well as a Hungarian one? Rudolf Reszo Charousek being the classical example. Of course it's true that such names aren't really middle names in the Western sense. |
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Feb-28-15
| | Annie K.: Yes, Rezső (Rudolf) Charousek is exactly the same situation, with the more internationally-known "translation" Rudolf being used as a substitute for the difficult to pronounce Hungarian name Rezső, rather than being an actual middle name. I think in these cases, it might be better to put the "translations" in parentheses, though: Rezső (Rudolf) Charousek
Győző (Victor) Forintos
Thanks to the editor who fixed the accents! :) |
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| Dec-09-18 | | Volcanus: http://mtk.hu/hirek/elhunyt-forinto... |
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Dec-09-18
 | | Penguincw: RIP Gyozo Forintos. Heard of the news a few days ago, but couldn't find any sources to confirm. Someone had the following words to say about it: < "Chess Grandmaster, Hungarian champion Győző Forintos (1935-2018) passed away tonight. He played interesting and original games; won against Mikhail Tal and Vasily Smyslov. Gyozo taught and helped many Hungarian chess players.In chess tournaments he was 1st at Reggio Emilia 1962/3, 2nd at Wijk aan Zee-B 1970 (after Andersson), 1st at Baja (Asztalos Memorial) 1971, 3rd at Caorle 1972, 2nd at Vrnjačka Banja 1973, 2nd at Reykjavík 1974 (after Smyslov, but ahead of Bronstein), 2nd at Novi Sad 1974, 2nd= at Lone Pine 1976 (after Petrosian), 2nd at Sarajevo 1978, and 1st= at the Perpignan Open 1987." > |
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| Dec-09-18 | | Eastfrisian: RIP Master Forintos. |
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