Ştefan Erdélyi (17 November 1905, Temesvár (now Timişoara

Timisoara

Timișoara is the capital city of Timiș County, in western Romania. One of the largest Romanian cities, with an estimated population of 311,586 inhabitants , and considered the informal capital city of the historical region of Banat, Timișoara is the main social, economic and cultural center in the...

) – 26 October 1968, Reşiţa) was a Hungarian–Romanian 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 in Temesvár, Transylvania (then Austria-Hungary), he lived in Romania after World War I. He took 4th at Bucharest 1925 (Alexandru Tyroler

Alexandru Tyroler

Alexandru Tyroler was a Hungarian-Romanian chess master....

 won), shared 1st with János Balogh

János Balogh (chess player)

János Balogh was a Hungarian–Romanian chess master.He was a Romanian Champion in 1930.Dr Balogh played for Romania in Chess Olympiads:...

 at Cernăuţi (Chernivtsi) 1930 (Romanian Chess Championship

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...

, the title went to his co-winner). Erdélyi was thrice Romanian Champion (1931, 1934, and 1949).

He twice played for Romania in Chess Olympiads at 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...

 and Warsaw 1935

6th Chess Olympiad

The 6th 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 August 16 and August 31, 1935, in Warsaw, Poland...

.

Erdélyi tied for 5-6th at Budapest 1934 (Maróczy Jubilee, 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), tied for 4-5th at Klosterneuburg 1934 (Karl Gilg

Karl Gilg

Karl Gilg was a German chess International Master from Czechoslovakia.Gilg played for Czechoslovakia in several Chess Olympiads....

 and Hans Müller won), and tied for 15-16th at Trenčianske Teplice 1949 (Gideon Ståhlberg

Gideon Ståhlberg

Anders Gideon Tom Ståhlberg was a Swedish chess grandmaster.He won the Swedish Chess Championship of 1927, became Nordic champion in 1929, and held it until 1939....

 won).

He was awarded the International Master title in 1950.

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