Ivan Halic (also Ioan Halic; 18 September 1910 – 8 July 1978) was a

Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Moldova to the east, a ...

chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to dist ...

player,

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 ...

winner (1936).

Biography

In 1936, Ivan Halic won individual

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. As a member of the Romanian national team, he took part in the

3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad The 3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad was held by German Chess Federation (''Grossdeutscher Schachbund'') as a counterpart of the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin with reference to 1924 and 1928 events. Many Jewish chess players took part in the event. Si ...

in 1936. Ivan Halic was participant in the

Hungarian Chess Championship The inaugural Hungarian Chess Championship was held in the city of Győr in 1906. Initially, there was no governing body responsible for its organisation, until the formation of the Hungarian Chess Federation. The HCF first appeared in 1911, but fa ...

in 1937 (played out of competition, the championship was held with the participation of foreign chess players).Nemzeti mesterverseny – Dr. Sipőcz Jenő emlékverseny – 1937
/ref> He also played in the international chess tournament in

(1949).

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* * 1910 births 1978 deaths Romanian chess players 20th-century chess players Chess Olympiad competitors {{Romania-chess-bio-stub