Artur Havasi

Artur Havasi (Hungary, 07.01.1864 - 09.1939)

Significant chess composer of endgame studies

Born in Pettend, lived in Budapest, is considered the most important composer of his country in the period between the two world wars.

Havasi worked as a journalist and for many years was editor of the magazine column "Magyar Sakkvilag".

Information about him can be found at magyarsakkszerzok.hu

Born in 1864 in Buda-Pest, †1939.

His work as a puzzle author is divided into two periods. First, direct puzzles and self-made puzzles in the Czech style appeared.

In 1912, Izor Halmos, the great puzzle patron, announced international competitions and commissioned Arthur Havasi and Johann Berger, the great endgame expert, to judge the endgame competition.

Berger made Havasi's decision entirely his own, and this success then preoccupied Havasi with endgame poetry.

Important study composer:

About 100 of his endgame studies were published, mostly in foreign columns.

His work in this direction is all the more significant because very few people in our country have ever been concerned with endgame acquisition.

In the Hungarian chess world, he headed the endgame study section from the beginning. This section promoted the small group of Hungarian study endgame authors who appeared in the postwar period.

Arthur Havasi was one of the leading figures in universal Hungarian chess as an active puzzle developer, tournament judge and player, as well as co-president of the Hungarian Chess Federation.

Source: Website arves.org by editor Peter Boll (mainly)