László Bárczay (21 February 1936 – 7 April 2016) was a Hungarian chess Grandmaster. In 1966 he was awarded the

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title. At the 1966 Olympiad in Havana, he scored 11/12 (ten wins and two draws) as second reserve for the bronze medal-winning Hungarian team, winning the individual gold medal for sixth board.László Bárczay Chess Olympiad Record
at olimpbase.org, retrieved 24 March 2013 In 1967 he was awarded the Grandmaster title. Other tournament successes include: *

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Memorial in Salgótarján, 1967 – 1st= * Zonal Tournament in Vrnjačka Banja, 1967 – 3rd * Sarajevo, 1968 – 1st= * Polanica-Zdrój, 1969 – 1st *

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, 1970 – 2nd *

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, 1975 – 2nd *

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, 1982 – 1st From 1972 to 1976 he was the editor of the ''Magyar Sakkélet''. During this time he took up

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, and was awarded the ICCF International Master title in 1973. Bárczay earned the ICCF Grandmaster title in 1979 after finishing equal first in the Vidmar memorial tournament between 1975 and 1979.

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