Otto Titusz Blathy

Ottó Titusz Bláthy (born August 11, 1860 in Tata, † September 26, 1939 in Budapest) was a Hungarian mechanical engineer.and significant chess composer

Ingenious chess composer, specialised in chess problems with extremely long solutions.

Life

1885: Transformer from Zipernowsky, Déri and Bláthy

1889: Wattmeter constructed by Bláthy
Bláthy studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Vienna until the diploma in 1882 and worked for the company in Budapest from 1883. He acquired significant merits through the development of the transformer together with Miksa Déri and Károly Ziblenowsky in 1885. Bláthy mainly submitted over a hundred patents to electrical machines. From 1887 he experimented with AC generators, which were introduced to an Italian power plant a year later. In 1889 he designed a kilowatt hour counters who was called after him.

When Hofrat Ing. Otto Blathy, senior director of the electrical engineering department of the Ganz & Co. in Budapest, was awarded the dignity of an honorary doctor of technical sciences in 1917. 

Bláthy was an honorary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences from 1927.

Bláthy was awarded the Grand Prix at the world exhibition in Paris in 1900. A Budapest road is named after him.

Chess composition
Bláthy specialized primarily in long -term chess compositions, many of them are in the border area between moremover problem and endgame study. He published 50 of them in 1890 in his book.

Publications
Otto T. Bláthy: Middle Economists. Second, increased edition, publisher of Veit, Leipzig 1890.
Web links
Commons: Ottó Titusz Bláthy - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Ottó Titusz Bláthy in: A Pallas Nagy Lexikona (Hungarian)
Bláthy, Otto Titusz in the Cesa project
Compositions by Ottó Titusz Bláthy on the Schwalbe PDB server (201 chess problems)
Bláthys 257-Matt with solution (Memento of August 7, 2007 on the Internet Archive)
Bláthys 292-Matt with solution
Individually
  Journal of the Österr (Eichische) engineering and architect association. No. 18/1917, Vienna 1917, p. 293.

Source: Germain Wikipedia

Others: 3 endgame studies by him are selected on Website arves.org. (editor Peter Boll)