József Pintér (born 9 November 1953 in
Budapest
Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population ...
) is a
Hungarian chess
Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...
Grandmaster and chess writer. He won the
Hungarian Chess Championship The inaugural Hungarian Chess Championship was held in the city of Győr in 1906. Initially, there was no governing body responsible for its organisation, until the formation of the Hungarian Chess Federation. The HCF first appeared in 1911, but fai ...
in 1978 and 1979. Pinter gained his grandmaster title in 1982. He is well known for a 1984 brilliancy against his compatriot
Lajos Portisch
Lajos Portisch (born 4 April 1937) is a Hungarian chess Grandmaster, whose positional style earned him the nickname, the "Hungarian Botvinnik". One of the strongest non-Soviet players from the early 1960s into the late 1980s, he participated ...
in that year's Hungarian Championship.
Books
* 1000 Minor Piece Endings (Caissa Hungary, 2007)
* 1000 Rook Endings (Magyar Sakkvilág, 2007)
* 1000 Pawn Endings (Magyar Sakkvilág, 2006)
* 300 fejtörő (300 Puzzles) (Magyar Sakkvilág, 2006)
* A sakktaktika titkai I, II, III, IV, (Secrets of chess tactics) - with
István Pongó, (Magyar Sakkpartner Kiadó, 2002)
References
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Andrew Soltis
Andrew Eden Soltis (born May 28, 1947) is an American chess grandmaster, author and columnist. He was inducted into the United States Chess Hall of Fame in September 2011.
Chess career
Soltis learned how the chess pieces moved at age 10 when he ...
, ''The 100 Best Chess Games of the 20th Century, Ranked''. McFarlard & Company, Jefferson, NC, 2000
External links
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1953 births
Living people
Chess grandmasters
Chess Olympiad competitors
Hungarian chess players
Hungarian chess writers
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