Elod Macskasy was a Hungarian-Canadian chess master.
10 Facts About Elod Macskasy
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Elod Macskasy completed his early schooling there, and at age 16 won the city's chess championship.
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Elod Macskasy competed for Hungary in swimming at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
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Elod Macskasy studied mathematics in Budapest from 1937 to 1942, at Pazmany Peter University, earning his doctorate.
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Elod Macskasy won the British Columbia Championship for five straight years, from 1958 to 1962, and shared this title in 1967.
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Elod Macskasy continued to play often in this event, generally scoring well, into the late 1980s.
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Elod Macskasy competed several times in the Canadian Chess Championship, generally with good results.
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Elod Macskasy remained a strong player throughout his life, maintaining a master's rating of over 2200 until his final tournament, the 1989 Paul Keres Memorial in Vancouver.
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Elod Macskasy co-edited the magazine Canadian Chess Chat for many years from the late 1950s.
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Elod Macskasy was a chess mentor, notably in the late 1960s, when he mentored a group of young British Columbia masters that included Robert Zuk, Bruce Harper, Jonathan Berry, Peter Biyiasis, and Duncan Suttles.