Oct-05-04
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Dec-22-04
 | | Benzol: Istvan Bilek
Born 11th August 1932 in Budapest
An IM in 1958 he got the GM title in 1962. He was Hungarian champion in 1963, 1965 and 1970. |
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Mar-23-05
 | | offramp: Like Peter Szekely he doesn't seem to be someone who enjoys chess very much. |
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Apr-21-06 | | IdleFellow: Based on some of his articles that I've read, he does enjoy chess very much. His love of the game is quite contagious, in fact. There must be another rationale behind his draws. |
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Aug-10-06 | | BIDMONFA: Istvan Bilek
BILEK, Istvan
http://www.bidmonfa.com/bilek_istva...
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Aug-11-06
 | | Phony Benoni: His drawing tendencies may be due to the fact that his most famous (or infamous) game was a draw: Matulovic vs I Bilek, 1967 |
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Aug-11-06 | | sixfeetunder: Perhaps he paints too? |
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Sep-07-08
 | | GrahamClayton: <offramp>He made a lot of short draws. Offramp,
Bilek is infamous for his performance during the 1979 Slupsk tournament, where he drew all ten of his games in a combined total of 125 moves, taking only 1 hour 40 minutes in total playing time. Source: David Hooper and Kenneth Whyld "Oxford Companion to Chess", 2nd edition, OUP, 1992. |
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Apr-26-09 | | laskereshevsky: Yes, by his record dont looks exactly like a lioneheart but, at least once in his chess-life, he was the hammer... During the final A first round, in the 20th chess olympiad in Skopje 1972, while his fellows country mans Portisch, Forintos and Ribli
were drawing vs.
Petrosian Smyslov and Tal,
The little peacefull Bilek gived to Hungary a storical victory on the USSR by very patiently strangling the always impetuous Korchnoi.... I Bilek vs Korchnoi, 1972
OK, This game isnt very tactically charming, strategically enteresting maybe. But for shore is an incredible storical important one... His ever best agonistic achievment?!.... |
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Mar-22-10 | | Eastfrisian: R.I.P. |
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Mar-22-10 | | Ratul: RIP GM Bilek |
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Aug-11-10 | | wordfunph: rest in peace Maestro Istvan.. |
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Aug-11-10 | | Petrosianic: As opposed to what, exactly? |
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Sep-07-16
 | | OhioChessFan: An uninspiring record:
147 draws fewer than 20 moves.
12 draws fewer than 10 moves. |
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Dec-05-23
 | | louispaulsen88888888: A random example: Szolnok 1975 1 win 13 draws! |
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Dec-06-23
 | | louispaulsen88888888: This guy makes Ulf Anderssen seem like the life of the party. |
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Feb-04-25
 | | Gottschalk: FIDE ratings lists were unfair to chessplayers who played in the post-war period between 1945 and 1970. Because they only became public from July 1971.
https://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/Elo19...
Istvan Bilek was one of the players affected. On Arpad Elo's unofficial list of 1968, he appears with a maximum strength of 2530 pts, which would be his peak rating.
https://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/Elo19...
However, for Jeff Jonas, the author of Chessmetrics.com.
Bilek was at his best in April 1967: Here he appears as number 36 in the World!
http://www.chessmetrics.com/cm/CM2/... |
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Feb-04-25
 | | Gottschalk: Ok, the 2639 rating estimated by Sonas seems to have gone beyond Bilek's playing strength, off course, as it would be very close to the playing strength of Petrosian, the world champion at that time. However, I don't doubt that the Hungarian GM was a top-50. In other words, the period between 1945 and 1870 remains as a shadow in the evaluation of those young chessmasters. Since It's well known that most chessplayers go into decline after the age 40. |
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