chess-The Oxford Companion to Chess - First Edition by David Hooper & Kenneth Whyld

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(+ 13=9-2) ahcad oI Pilkhuryi Monle Carlo 190:1,
second (+15=8 3) afier Ta.rasch ahead ofPillsbur!
and Scblecbteri Monte Carlo 1904, about
calegory 12, liisr (+5=5) ahead oI Schlechteri
Barmcnl905.6(t(+7:7 1)eqlalwithJanowski
and Schlechleriand Ostend 1905, fi6t (+r6:r-3)
one and a hallpoi.ts ahead ofa field tbat inclnded
Jano*sld, Tarrasch. and Schlechter.
The lime had cone lor Mar6ey to bake his
challcngc for the sorldclumpionship. andin Apr.
1906 he andlnskcr signed an agrc.mcnttoplay a
malcb for the firsi to win eight ganes (draws nol
counring), rhe m.rch to rake place snmontbsl ter
in Vie.na, Cuba, and Ncw York. ln Aug a
revolution broke out in Cuba. the Vie.na Chess
Ciub became dissalisfied that only some oI the
ganes were robeplayed there,.nd the narch iell
through. Negodations for lillc-matcncs comronly
bring illfecling bctwcen lhe playen i Mar6czy was
hendly with lnsker. and lhere was no ill-will, but
the opportunny Ior a nalch never cane agiin.
Mardczy@ndnued to achievegood (esults, a6ong
ihem a second prizc (+10=9-1) at Carlsbad 190?
and fist (+10=8 1) equal with DUMS and
Scnlcchler al vienna 1903: bdt Nhen n became
clear that hn bidfor thc championsnipwas or.r hc
played less often and less successtuUy.
During the Fist World War he suffered pnva
tion. AfteNards he liled tor a dne in the
Nethcrlands, England (where he coached vera
MENcH'k). and thc us,\, rcturning to Hungary in
1927. His last bigwinwas al Carlsbad 1923when he
scored +7=9 I to tie with ALEG'NE and BoGoL
ruuow. Hc continued rouinanent play until 19.17
and played lo. Hungary in ihe Olympiads of 192?,
1930. and 1933
AlthoDgh hc won a few DRTLLTN.! pRrzEs his
stylc was posilional ralher lhan conbinative, and
he showedunusual talenl lor the ENDGAM.. Hc was
gende and unusually scll-efiacing lor a era.dmas
ter. Widely respected, he was cont.oller ior the
Alekhine Euse matches oI 1935 and 1937. His
wrilings were moslly io Magyar. bul his book Pz,l
Motpht ltgt)g) was written in Gernan and a
Russian lranslalion was publisbed in 1929.
A. Folde'k. Glza Md6..t-Lehd und L.hten
(1971) @nlains a biography and 66 ganes or gane
positions played or annolared by Mar6czyi J. Szily.
Mardcz! Gizo (1957) conlains l(I0 gamcs sith
annolations in Hungarian. biography. chess record,
and many photographs.
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