János Balogh was a Hungarian

Hungary

Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

–Romania

Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

n chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 master.

He was a Romanian Champion

Romanian Chess Championship

The Romanian Chess Championship became a yearly even 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...

 in 1930.

Dr Balogh played for Romania in Chess Olympiads:

• In 2nd unofficial Olympiad
  2nd unofficial Chess Olympiad
  The 2nd unofficial Chess Olympiad was held in Budapest, June 26 - July 15, 1926, during the FIDE Congress.Team tournament was won by Hungary. The individual tournaments, among them a masters', an open, and a women's tournament, had also been played...
  
   at Budapest 1926;
• In the 2nd Chess Olympiad
  2nd Chess Olympiad
  The 2nd Chess Olympiad, organized by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs and comprising an open and women's tournament, as well as several events designed to promote the game of chess, took place between July 21 and August 6, 1928 in The Hague, Netherlands.The final results were as...
  
   at The Hague 1928 (+4 –7 =5);
• In the 3rd Chess Olympiad
  3rd Chess Olympiad
  The 3rd Chess Olympiad, organized by the FIDE and comprising an open and women's tournament, as well as several events designed to promote the game of chess, took place between July 13 and July 27, 1930, in Hamburg, Germany...
  
   at The Hague 1930 (+5 –5 =5);
• In the 4th Chess Olympiad
  4th Chess Olympiad
  The 4th Chess Olympiad, organized by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs and comprising an open and women's tournament, as well as several events designed to promote the game of chess, took place between July 11 and July 26, 1931, in Prague, Czechoslovakia...
  
   at Prague 1931 (+3 –7 =5);

and for Hungary at first reserve board in 3rd unofficial Olympiad

3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad

The 3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad was held by German Chess Federation as a counterpart of the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin with reference to 1924 and 1928 events....

 at Munich 1936 (+5 –1 =7).
He won team bronze medal at Budapest 1926, team gold and individual bronze medals at Munich 1936.

After World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

, he participated in Hungarian championships in 1946, 1947, and 1950.

He was awarded the International Master of Correspondence title in 1953.

External links

• János Balogh at 365Chess.com