Alexandru (Sándor) Tyroler (19 October 1891, in Garamszentkereszt, now

Žiar nad Hronom Žiar nad Hronom (slang: Žiar, german: link=no, Heiligenkreuz, hu, Garamszentkereszt; until 1920 ''Svätý Kríž'' and until 1955 ''Svätý Kríž nad Hronom'') is a city in Banská Bystrica Region, Slovakia. Name development The name of the ...

Slovakia Slovakia (; sk, Slovensko ), officially the Slovak Republic ( sk, Slovenská republika, links=no ), is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the ...

– 3 February 1973, in

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) was a Hungarian-

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. Sándor Tyroler was born in Garamszentkereszt ( sk, Hronský Svätý Kríž, german: Heiligenkreuz an der Gran) in Hungary (now Slovakia) into a Hungarian

Jew Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""T ...

ish family. After

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, following the

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(1920), he became a citizen of Romania. In 1912, he took 5th in Temesvár (

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), now

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, Romania. In 1925, he won in

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. In 1926, he won the first

Romanian Chess Championship The Romanian Chess Championship became a yearly event in 1946, and was held irregularly earlier. A series of national eliminating contests are played to select a 20-player field for the men's final. The women's final consists of 16 players. Men's w ...

Sibiu Sibiu ( , , german: link=no, Hermannstadt , la, Cibinium, Transylvanian Saxon: ''Härmeschtat'', hu, Nagyszeben ) is a city in Romania, in the historical region of Transylvania. Located some north-west of Bucharest, the city straddles the Ci ...

. In 1927, he won in Bucharest (ROM-ch). In 1928, he took 15th in The Hague ( Amateur World Championship,

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won). In 1929, he won in Iaşi (ROM-ch). In 1929, he took 6th in Bucharest. In 1930, he took 3rd in

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(ROM-ch). Alexandru Tyroler represented Romania in the

2nd unofficial Chess Olympiad The second unofficial Chess Olympiad was a team chess tournament held in Budapest from June 26 to July 15, 1926, during the third FIDE Congress. Six teams applied to contest the team tournament but Austria and Czechoslovakia withdrew before the star ...

1926, where he won team bronze medal. He also played at 3rd board (+4 –7 =4) in the 3rd Chess Olympiad at

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1930.OlimpBase :: 3rd Chess Olympiad, Hamburg 1930, Romania
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References

External links

Alexandru Tyroler at 365Chess.com
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