Győző Victor Forintos (30 July 1935 – 5 December 2018) was a Hungarian
chess
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player and by profession, an economist. He was awarded the titles International Master, in 1963, and Grandmaster, in 1974, by FIDE.
He first participated in the Hungarian championship as early as 1954 and became the national champion in 1968/9.
In tournaments he was 1st at Reggio Emilia 1962/3, 2nd at
Wijk aan Zee
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-B 1970 (after
Andersson
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Caorle
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1972, 2nd at
Vrnjačka Banja
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1973, 2nd at
Reykjavík
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Novi Sad
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Sarajevo
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1978, and 1st= at the Perpignan Open 1987.
He played for Hungary in six
Chess Olympiad
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s (1958, 1964, 1966, 1970, 1972, and 1974). In 1958, he took an individual gold medal for his 80% score and has also won silver and bronze team medals.
As a writer on chess, he has produced two books on the opening in the English language, both co-authored by Ervin Haag: '' Petroff Defence'', MacMillan Chess Library, 1992 and ''Easy Guide to the 5.Nge2 King's Indian'', Everyman, 2000. The latter describes a fairly offbeat method of playing white against the King's Indian. Sometimes referred to as the 'Hungarian Attack', it is a system that Forintos has himself developed and become a leading expert on.
His daughter Gyöngyvér, also a chess player, was married to the Anglo-French grandmaster, Anthony Kosten.