Károly Sterk 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.

He tied for 2nd-4th at Budapest 1909 (Zsigmond Barász

Zsigmond Barász

Zsigmond Barász was a Hungarian chess master.He took 2nd, behind Zoltán von Balla, at Györ 1906 and lost a match to him there; took 9th at Budapest 1906 , tied for 1st-2nd with Forgács at Budapest 1907 , and took 4th at Székesfehérvár 1907 .Barász won at...

 won), played at Vienna 1909/10 (the 2nd Trebitsch Memorial, Richard Réti

Richard Réti

Réti composed one of the most famous chess studies, shown in this diagram. It was published in Ostrauer Morgenzeitung 4 December 1921. It seems impossible for the white king to catch the advanced black pawn, while the white pawn can be easily stopped by the black king...

 won), tied for 3rd-5th at Budapest 1911 (the 3rd Hungarian Championship

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 failed to establish itself properly until 1923...

, Zoltán von Balla

Zoltán von Balla

Zoltán von Balla was a Hungarian chess champion.In 1904, he took 11th in Coburg . In 1905, he took 10th in Vienna. In 1906, he won 1st Hungarian Championship in Györ. He shared the title with Zsigmond Barász at Budapest 1911...

 and Barász won), tied for 9-11th at Bad Pistyan 1912 (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), took 10th at Temesvár 1912 (HUN-ch, Gyula Breyer

Gyula Breyer

Gyula Breyer was a Hungarian chess player. He was a leading member of the hypermodern school of chess theory, which favored controlling the center with pressure from the flanks....

 won), took 12th at Budapest 1913 (Rudolf Spielmann

Rudolf Spielmann

Rudolf Spielmann was an Austrian-Jewish chess player of the romantic school, and chess writer.-Career:He was a lawyer but never worked as one....

 won), shared 2nd with Réti, behind Lajos Asztalos

Lajos Asztalos

Lajos Asztalos was a Hungarian chess International Master, professor, and languages teacher....

, at Debrecen 1913 (HUN-ch), and tied for 2nd-3rd with Barász, behind Breyer, at Budapest 1917. He lost two matches to Géza Maróczy

Géza Maróczy

Géza Maróczy was a leading Hungarian chess Grandmaster, one of the best players in the world in his time. He was also a practicing engineer.-Early career:...

 in 1907 and 1917, both (+1 –2 =3).

After World War I, he mainly played in Budapest where took 10th in 1921 (Alexander Alekhine

Alexander Alekhine

Alexander Alexandrovich Alekhine was the fourth World Chess Champion. He is often considered one of the greatest chess players ever.By the age of twenty-two, he was already among the strongest chess players in the world. During the 1920s, he won most of the tournaments in which he played...

 won), tied for 8-9th in 1922, took 3rd and 4th in 1924, shared 1st and took 5th in 1925, tied for 4-5th, took 6th, and won in 1926, tied for 7-8th and took 10th in 1928, tied for 6-7th in 1929, won and shared 1st in 1930, took 2nd in 1931 (HUN-ch, 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...

 won), tied for 12-13th in 1932 (HUN-ch, Maróczy won), and tied for 9-10th in 1934 (Erich Eliskases

Erich Eliskases

Erich Gottlieb Eliskases was a chess Grandmaster of the 1930s and 1940s, who represented Austria, Germany and Argentina in international competition....

 won).

He also took 9th at Bardejov 1926 (Hermanis Matisons

Hermanis Matisons

Hermanis Matisons , , was a Latvian chess player and one of world's most highly regarded chess masters in the early 1930s. He was also a leading endgame composer...

 and 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...

 won), tied for 3rd-4th at London 1927, took 15th at Ujpest 1934 (Andor Lilienthal

Andor Lilienthal

Andor Arnoldovich Lilienthal was a Hungarian and Soviet chess Grandmaster. In his long career, he played against ten male and female world champions, beating Emanuel Lasker, José Raúl Capablanca, Alexander Alekhine, Max Euwe, Mikhail Botvinnik, Vasily Smyslov, and Vera Menchik...

 won), and tied for 11-16th at Tatatóváros 1935 (HUN-ch, László Szabó

László Szabó (chess player)

László Szabó was a prominent Hungarian Grandmaster of chess.Born in Budapest, he burst onto the international chess scene in 1935, at the unusually young age of 18...

 won).

Sterk played for Hungary in unofficial and official Chess Olympiads at Paris 1924

1st unofficial Chess Olympiad

The first Team Chess Tournament had been held by coinciding the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, 12th - 20 July 1924, at Hotel Majestic. The core of the organizing committee were the Frenchmen Pierre Vincent and Alexander Alekhine. Fifty-four players representing 18 countries arrived to Paris...

, Budapest 1926

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...

, and Prague 1931

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...

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External links

• Chessgames of Károly Sterk