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Kornél Havasi (10 January 1892 – 15 January 1945) was a Jewish-Hungarian
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master. He won at Budapest 1911; took 9th at Temesvár 1912 (HUN-ch,
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won); tied for 4-5th at Budapest 1917 (Breyer won); took 4th at Budapest 1918 ( Zoltán von Balla and
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won); tied for 9-11th at Kaschau (Košice) 1918 (Réti won); tied for 1st-2nd with Szávay at Budapest 1920; took 6th at Gyula 1921 (
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won). Havasi was Hungarian Champion, winning at Budapest 1922. He took 3rd at Budapest 1923; tied for 6-7th at Gyula 1923 (Gruber won); took 10th at Györ 1924 (HUN-ch, Géza Nagy won); tied for 6-10th at Debrecen 1925 (''Maróczy Jubiläumturnier'', Hans Kmoch won); tied for 3rd-4th at Budapest 1926 (
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won); tied for 12-14th at Budapest 1926 (1st FIDE Tournament, Ernst Grünfeld and
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won); tied for 2nd-4th at Budapest 1928 (HUN-ch, Árpád Vajda won); tied for 7-8th at Budapest 1928 (
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won), and won at Mezökövesd 1929 (Quadrangular). He tied for 4-5th at Budapest 1931 (HUN-ch, Lajos Steiner won); took 4th at Sopron 1934 (
Rudolf Spielmann Rudolf Spielmann (5 May 1883 – 20 August 1942) was a Jewish-Austrian chess player of the romantic school, and chess writer. Career Spielmann was born in 1883, third child of Moritz and Cecilia Spielmann, and had a younger brother Edgar, an ol ...
won); tied for 5-6th at Budapest 1934 (Maróczy Jubilee,
Erich Eliskases Erich Gottlieb Eliskases (15 February 1913 – 2 February 1997) was a chess player who represented Austria, Germany and Argentina in international competition. In the late 1930s he was considered a potential contender for the World Championship. ...
won); tied for 12-14th at Budapest (Ujpest) 1934 (
Andor Lilienthal Andor (André, Andre, Andrei) Arnoldovich Lilienthal Reuben Fine, ''The World's Great Chess Games'', Dover Publications, 1983, p. 216. . (5 May 1911 – 8 May 2010) was a Hungarian and Soviet chess player. In his long career, he played against te ...
won); tied for 5-6th at Tatatovaros 1935 ( László Szabó won); tied for 5-7th at Budapest 1936 (HUN-ch, L. Steiner and Mieczysław Najdorf won); tied for 3rd-4th at Milan 1938 (Eliskases and Monticelli won), and tied for 4-6th at Budapest 1939 (Dori Memorial, Balla and Szabó won). Havasi played for Hungary in Chess Olympiads: * In 1924, at 1st unofficial Chess Olympiad in Paris (+6 –5 =0) * In 1927, at fourth board in 1st Chess Olympiad in London (+4 –1 =3) * In 1928, at fourth board in
2nd Chess Olympiad The 2nd Chess Olympiad ( nl, De 2e Schaakolympiade), organized by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE) and comprising an open and women's tournament, as well as several events designed to promote the game of chess, took place between ...
in The Hague (+6 –1 =9) * In 1930, at fourth board in
3rd Chess Olympiad The 3rd Chess Olympiad (german: Die 3. Schacholympiade), organized by the FIDE and comprising an open and women's tournament, as well as several events designed to promote the game of chess, took place between July 13 and July 27, 1930, in Hamburg ...
in Hamburg (+10 –0 =4) * In 1931, at fourth board in
4th Chess Olympiad The 4th Chess Olympiad ( cz, 4. Šachová olympiáda), organized by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE) and comprising an openAlthough commonly referred to as the ''men's division'', this section is open to both male and female playe ...
in Prague (+7 –4 =3) * In 1933, at fourth board in 5th Chess Olympiad in Folkestone (+5 –1 =6) * In 1935, at third board 6th Chess Olympiad in Warsaw (+5 –0 =6) * In 1936, at fourth board in 3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad in Munich (+4 –0 =12) * In 1937, at fourth board in
7th Chess Olympiad The 7th Chess Olympiad ( sv, Den 7:e Schackolympiad), organized by the FIDE and comprising an open and (unofficial) women's tournament, as well as several events designed to promote the game of chess, took place between July 31 and August 14, 1937, ...
in Stockholm (+6 –4 =5). He won six team medals (three gold in 1927, 1928, 1936, and three silver in 1924, 1930, 1937) and one individual silver medal in 1935. He published a book ''A soproni jubiláris sakkverseny, 1934'' (Budapest 1935). During
The Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; ...
, Kornél Havasi was killed by the Nazis at 1945 in
Bruck an der Leitha Bruck an der Leitha ( bar, label=Central Bavarian, Bruck aun da Leitha; "Bridge on the Leitha") is a town in the state of Lower Austria of Austria on the border of Burgenland, marked by the Leitha river. In 2018 it had a population of around 8,00 ...
(Austria). He had to work there as a forced labourer until his death.https://www.yadvashem.org/odot_pdf/Microsoft%20Word%20-%203218.pdf


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