GM Istvan Bilek 1932-2010 Grandmaster Istvan Bilek passed away on 21 March 2010. A three time Hungarian Champion, Bilek played on the Hungarian team in nine Chess Olympiads and played in Interzonals in 1962 and 1964. He scored many wins against the world’s top players such as Korchnoi, Portisch, Gligoric, Stein, Timman. (As reported by […]
Big day in Budapest with the Polgar sisters
The event went extremely well. It was a great success with around 500 people in the afternoon at the Palace of Arts http://www.mupa.hu/index.jsp. Over 120 got the opportunity to challenge my sisters and me in the simultaneous exhibition. Among them were a number of celebrities such as Ivan Fischer (the world famous conductor) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Fischer, Pal […]