Tivadar Kardos (September 26, 1921 in
Budapest
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– May 15, 1998) was a
Hungarian chess composer
A chess composer is a person who creates endgame studies or chess problems. Chess composers usually specialize in a particular genre, e.g. endgame studies, twomovers, threemovers, moremovers, helpmates, selfmates, fairy problems, or retro ...
and an author of
chess
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-related material.
An academic by trade, he composed over 400
chess problem
A chess problem, also called a chess composition, is a puzzle created by the composer using chess pieces on a chessboard, which presents the solver with a particular task. For instance, a position may be given with the instruction that White is t ...
s. He focused on two-move problems, as well as
self- and
helpmate
A helpmate is a type of chess problem in which both sides cooperate in order to achieve the goal of checkmating Black. In a helpmate in ''n'' moves, Black moves first, then White, each side moving ''n'' times, to culminate in White's ''nth'' m ...
s. He was chairman of the Budapest Chess Problem Committee. Together with
István Rágó
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* Stephen I of Hungary (c. 975–1038), last grand prince of the Hungarians and first k ...
, from 1969 to 1976 he published the paper "Feladványkedvelők Lapja" (Paper of the Friends of Chess Problems).
1921 births
1998 deaths
Chess composers
20th-century Hungarian chess players
20th-century Hungarian sportsmen
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