1. Johann Löwenthal (1810)

Hungarian Chess Player

An early professional chess master who has also contributed to chess writing as an editor.

2. Ottó Bláthy (1860)

Hungarian Chess Player

Hungarian-born electrical engineer who helped create an electric transformer and engines that run on AC electricity. He also specialized in the field of very long moremovers.

3. Zoltán Ribli (1951)

Hungarian Chess Player

A Hungarian chess Grandmaster who was a candidate for the World Championship on two occasions and won the Hungarian Championship three times.

4. Peter Leko (1979)

Hungarian Chess Player

Chess Grandmaster who is consistently ranked very highly in International competition.

5. Levente Lengyel (1933)

Hungarian Chess Player

Levente Lengyel is a Hungarian chess player who gained the Grandmaster title in 1964.

6. Ferenc Chalupetzky (1886)

Hungarian Chess Player

Chalupetzky was a Hungarian chess master and author. He took 2nd at Győr 1905 shared 1st at Győr 1906 tied for 1st-3rd at Győr 1908 shared 2nd with István Abonyi...

7. Imre König (1901)

Hungarian Chess Player

Imre König aka Mirko Kenig was a Hungarian chess master. He was born in Gyula Hungary and also lived in Austria England and the USA during the troubled times between...

8. Imre Korody (1905)

Hungarian Chess Player

Imre Kóródy Keresztély was a Hungarian chess master. He took 6th at Budapest 1932 took 8th at Budapest 1934 and tied for 9-10th at Tatatovaros 1935. He represented Hungary and...

9. Nikoletta Lakos (1978)

Hungarian Chess Player

Nikoletta Lakos is a Hungarian chess woman grandmaster. She is a three-time Hungarian Chess Championship winner having taken the title in 1997 2002 and 2005.

10. Josef Noa (1856)

Hungarian Chess Player

Joseph Noa was a Hungarian chess master. He was a judge by profession. Although an amateur he played in a number of tournaments throughout the 1880s and 1890s and defeated...

11. Egon Varnusz (1933)

Hungarian Chess Player

Egon Varnusz was a Hungarian chess Master and writer.

12. Zoltán von Balla (1883)

Hungarian Chess Player

Zoltán von Balla was a Hungarian chess champion. In 1904 he took 11th in Coburg. In 1905 he took 10th in Vienna. In 1906 he won 1st Hungarian Championship in...

13. Győző Exner (1864)

Hungarian Chess Player

Győző R. Exner was a Hungarian chess master. Born in Beregszász Carpathian Ruthenia he moved to Budapest.

14. Károly Sterk (1881)

Hungarian Chess Player

Károly Sterk was a Hungarian chess master. He tied for 2nd-4th at Budapest 1909 played at Vienna 1909/10 tied for 3rd-5th at Budapest 1911 tied for 9-11th at Bad Pistyan...

15. Endre Steiner (1901)

Hungarian Chess Player

Endre Steiner was a Hungarian chess player born in Budapest. Endre Steiner played for Hungary in five official and one unofficial Chess Olympiads. In 1927 he played at first reserve...

16. Gyula Breyer (1893)

Hungarian Chess Player

Gyula Breyer was a Hungarian chess player and 1912 Hungarian national champion.

17. Zsigmond Barász (1878)

Hungarian Chess Player

Zsigmond Barász was a Hungarian chess master. He took 2nd behind Zoltán von Balla at Györ 1906 and lost a match to him there; took 9th at Budapest 1906 tied...

18. Géza Nagy (1892)

Hungarian Chess Player

Géza Nagy was a Hungarian chess master. He was Hungarian Champion in 1924. He took 6th at Budapest 1926. Nagy played for Hungary in Chess Olympiads: In 1927 at second...

19. Pál Réthy (1905)

Hungarian Chess Player

Pál Réthy was a Hungarian chess master. Born in Deva Transylvania he lived in Hungary after World War I.

20. Gyula Kluger (1914)

Hungarian Chess Player

Gyula Kluger was a Hungarian chess master. He was the nephew of István Fazekas. In 1932 he won in Šluknov. In 1935 he took 7th in Tatatóváros. In 1936 he...

21. Kornél Havasi (1892)

Hungarian Chess Player

Kornél Havasi was a Hungarian chess master. He won at Budapest 1911; took 9th at Temesvár 1912 ; tied for 4-5th at Budapest 1917 ; took 4th at Budapest 1918...

22. Gyula Makovetz (1860)

Hungarian Chess Player

Gyula Makovetz was a Hungarian journalist and chess player. He edited the chess magazine Budapesti Sakkszemle from 1889 to 1894. Makovetz was 1st ahead of Johann Hermann Bauer and...

23. István Bilek (1932)

Hungarian Chess Player

István Bilek was a Hungarian chess Grandmaster.

24. József Szén (1805)

Hungarian Chess Player

József Szén was a Hungarian chess master. He obtained a law degree and later became the municipal archivist for the city of Pest. He often played in the café Worm...

25. Tibor Károlyi (chess player) (1961)

Hungarian Chess Player

Tibor Károlyi is a Hungarian chess International Master International Arbiter coach theoretician and author. He was Hungarian Champion in 1984. In 1989 he started his coaching career. Among his students...

26. Győző Forintos (1935)

Hungarian Chess Player

Győző Victor Forintos is a Hungarian chess master and by profession an economist. He first participated in the Hungarian Championship as early as 1954 and became the national champion in...

27. Zoltan Gyimesi (1977)

Hungarian Chess Player

Zoltán Gyimesi is a Hungarian chess player. He has participated in 4 Chess Olympiads 1998 2002-2006 with a record of +11=18-4. In 2002 at the 35th Chess Olympiad the Hungarian...

28. Gabor Kallai (1959)

Hungarian Chess Player

Gábor Kállai is a Hungarian chess Grandmaster. His Elo rating in October 2008 was 2462 but has been as high as 2555. In team championships he has won several gold...

29. Gedeon Barcza (1911)

Hungarian Chess Player

Gedeon Barcza was a Hungarian chess master. In 1940 Barcza took third place behind Max Euwe and Milan Vidmar at Maróczy Jubiläum in Budapest. In September 1942 he took sixth...

30. Rudolf Charousek (1873)

Hungarian Chess Player

Rudolf Charousek ; born September 19 1873 Prague – died April 18 1900 Budapest) was a Hungarian chess player. A brilliant player he had a short career dying at the...

31. László Bárczay (1936)

Hungarian Chess Player

László Bárczay is a Hungarian chess Grandmaster. In 1966 he was awarded the FIDE International Master title. At the 1966 Olympiad in Havana he scored 11/12 as second reserve for...

32. Leó Forgács (1881)

Hungarian Chess Player

Leó Forgács was a Hungarian chess player.

33. Csaba Balogh (1987)

Hungarian Chess Player

Csaba Balogh is a Hungarian chess player. Balogh earned his International Master title in 2002 and in 2004 he was recognized as a Grandmaster. He won the U-16 section of...

34. Veronika Schneider (1987)

Hungarian Chess Player

Veronika Schneider is a Hungarian chess woman grandmaster. In 2011 she shared first position with Anna Rudolf and Ticia Gara in the Hungarian Women Chess Championship.

35. István Csom (1940)

Hungarian Chess Player

István Csom is a Hungarian chess Grandmaster and International Arbiter. FIDE awarded him the International Master title in 1967 and the Grandmaster title in 1973. He was Hungarian Champion in...

36. Sándor Takács (1893)

Hungarian Chess Player

Sándor Takács was a Hungarian chess master born Károly Sydlauer in Miskolc Hungary.

37. Gyula Sax (1951)

Hungarian Chess Player

Gyula Sax was a Hungarian chess grandmaster and International Arbiter. Sax was awarded the IM title in 1972 and the GM title in 1974. He was the Hungarian Chess Champion...

38. Ildikó Mádl (1969)

Hungarian Chess Player

Ildikó Mádl is a Hungarian chess player. Madl learned to play chess from her father. In 1978 she became a pupil of the chess school Mereszjev that helped to promote...

39. Ticia Gara (1984)

Hungarian Chess Player

Ticia Gara is a Hungarian chess woman grandmaster. In 2009 and 2011 she won the Hungarian Women Chess Championship.