Lajos Asztalos

Lajos Asztalos

Lajos Asztalos (Ljudevit Astaloš) (29 July 1889, Pécs – 1 November 1956, Budapest) was a Hungarian chess International Master, professor, and teacher of languages. At the beginning of his career, he tied for sixth-eighth at Budapest 1911 (third HUN-ch, Zoltán von Balla and Zsigmond Barász won); tied for 7-8th at Breslau (Wrocław) 1912 (18th DSB–Congress, B tourn, Bernhard Gregory won); took second, behind Gyula Breyer, at Temesvár 1912 (fourth HUN-ch); won at Debrecen 1913 (fifth HUN-ch); tied for 8-9th at Budapest 1913 (Rudolf Spielmann won), took fifth at Mannheim 1914 (Hauptturnier A); took 4th at Vienna 1917 (Quadrangular, Milan Vidmar won), and took 5th at Kaschau 1918 (Richard Réti won). After World War I, he moved to the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as Yugoslavia). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lajos Asztalos has received more than 13,072 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Lajos Asztalos is the 154th most popular chess player (down from 151st in 2019), the 546th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 476th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Hungarian Chess Player.