Sándor Takács was a Hungarian 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, born Károly Sydlauer in Miskolc

Miskolc

Miskolc is a city in northeastern Hungary, mainly with heavy industrial background. With a population close to 170,000 Miskolc is the fourth largest city of Hungary It is also the county capital of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén and the regional centre of Northern Hungary.- Geography :Miskolc is located...

, Hungary.

Career

In 1922, he took 13th in Vienna

Vienna

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 (Akiba Rubinstein

Akiba Rubinstein

Akiba Kiwelowicz Rubinstein was a famous Polish chess Grandmaster at the beginning of the 20th century. He was scheduled to play a match with Emanuel Lasker for the world championship in 1914, but it was cancelled because of the outbreak of World War I...

 won). In 1924, he took 6th in Meran (Ernst Grünfeld

Ernst Grünfeld

----Ernst Franz Grünfeld , an Austrian grandmaster and writer specializing in opening theory, was for a brief period after the First World War one of the strongest chess players in the world....

 won). In 1925, Takacs won, ahead of Lajos Steiner

Lajos Steiner

Lajos Steiner was a Hungarian–born Australian chess master.Steiner was one of four children of Bernat Steiner, a mathematics teacher, and his wife Cecilia,, and a younger brother of Endre Steiner...

, in Budapest

Budapest

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. In 1926, he tied for 3rd-5th in Budapest (1st FIDE tournament, Mario Monticelli

Mario Monticelli

Mario Monticelli was an Italian chess grandmaster.In 1922, he won in Rome . In 1925, he won in Bologna. In 1926, Monticelli tied for 1st with Ernst Grünfeld in Budapest. In 1929, he took 11th in Budapest . In 1929, he tied for 4-5th in Barcelona...

 and Grünfeld won). In 1927, he took 8th in Vienna (Grünfeld won). In 1927, he took 5th in Kecskemét

Kecskemét

Kecskemét is a city in the central part of Hungary. It is the 8th largest city of the country, and the county seat of Bács-Kiskun.Kecskemét lies halfway between the capital Budapest and the country's third-largest city, Szeged, 86 kilometres from both of them and almost equal distance from the two...

 (Alexander Alekhine

Alexander Alekhine

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 won). In 1928, he tied for 1st-2nd with Grünfeld in Vienna.

At Hastings

Hastings International Chess Congress

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 1928/29, he tied for 1st-3rd, with Frank Marshall and Edgard Colle

Edgard Colle

Edgard Colle was a Belgian chess master. He scored excellent results in major international tournaments, including first at Amsterdam 1926, ahead of Savielly Tartakower and future world champion Max Euwe; first at Meran 1926, ahead of Esteban Canal; and first at Scarborough 1930, ahead of Maróczy...

. In 1929, he tied for 3rd-5th in Rogaška Slatina

Rogaška Slatina

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 (Rohitsch-Sauerbrunn), an event won by Rubinstein, whom Takacs defeated in their individual game. In 1929/30, he tied for 4-7th in Hastings (José Raúl Capablanca

José Raúl Capablanca

José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera was a Cuban chess player who was world chess champion from 1921 to 1927. One of the greatest players of all time, he was renowned for his exceptional endgame skill and speed of play...

 won). In 1930, he tied for 2nd-3rd with Daniël Noteboom

Daniël Noteboom

Daniël Noteboom was a Dutch chess player.Born in Noordwijk, Daniël Notebooom gained notice at the 1930 Chess Olympiad at Hamburg, scoring 11.5/15....

, behind Savielly Tartakower

Savielly Tartakower

Ksawery Tartakower was a leading Polish and French chess Grandmaster. He was also a leading chess journalist of the 1920s and 30s...

, in Rotterdam

Rotterdam

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 (Quadrangular). In 1930, he tied for 2nd-3rd with Arthur Dunkelblum

Arthur Dunkelblum

Arthur Dunkelblum was a Belgian chess master.Arthur Dunkelblum was born in Cracow , Austria-Hungary...

, behind Salo Flohr

Salo Flohr

Salomon Mikhailovich Flohr was a leading Czech and later Soviet chess grandmaster of the mid-20th century, who became a national hero in Czechoslovakia during the 1930s. His name was used to sell many of the luxury products of the time, including Salo Flohr cigarettes, slippers and eau-de-cologne...

, in Antwerp.

Takács played for Hungary at second board (+6 –3 =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 Hamburg

Hamburg

-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

1930, as the team won the silver medal.