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István Bilek (11 August 1932 – 20 March 2010) was a Hungarian
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grandmaster. He was a three-time Hungarian Chess Champion.


Biography

Bilek was a three-time Hungarian Champion (1963, 1965, and 1970), and he played in
interzonal Interzonal chess tournaments were tournaments organized by the World Chess Federation FIDE from the 1950s to the 1990s. They were a stage in the triennial World Chess Championship cycle and were held after the Zonal tournaments, and before the Ca ...
s in 1962 and 1964. His most successful tournaments were
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(1960),
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(1967), and
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(1970). He placed first in all three. Bilek played on the Hungarian team in nine
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s (1958 through 1974), earning three individual medals: silver on board 4 in
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, bronze on board 3 in
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, and silver on board 2 in
1972 Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, ...
. Bilek was awarded the
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title in 1958 and the GM title in 1962.Bilek, István
team chess record at olimpbase.org


See also

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Milan Matulović Milan Matulović (10 June 1935 – 9 October 2013) was a Yugoslav chess International Grandmaster, grandmaster who was the third strongest Yugoslavia, Yugoslav player for much of the 1960s and 1970s behind Svetozar Gligorić and Borislav Ivkov. H ...


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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bilek, Istvan 1932 births 2010 deaths Chess players from Budapest Chess Grandmasters Chess Olympiad competitors 20th-century Hungarian chess players 20th-century Hungarian sportsmen Hungarian chess players