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Milan Vidmar (22 June 1885 – 9 October 1962) was a Slovenian electrical engineer, chess player, chess theorist, and writer. He was among the top dozen chess players in the world from 1910 to 1930 and in 1950, was among the inaugural recipients of the title International Grandmaster from FIDE. Vidmar was a specialist in power transformers and transmission of electric current.

Milan Vidmar
Milan Vidmar

Early life, family, and education


He was born in a middle-class family in Ljubljana, Austria-Hungary (now in Slovenia). He began to study mechanical engineering in 1902, and he graduated in 1907 at the University of Vienna. He got his doctor's degree in 1911 from the Technical faculty in Vienna. The study of electrical engineering at the Technical faculty did not begin until 1904, so Vidmar had to take special examinations in the field basics.

Between 1912-13 he worked at the famous Ganz Works in Budapest as the assistant of Ottó Titusz Bláthy, one of the inventors and foremost experts on transformers which in turn became Vidmar's specialisation too.[1]

He was a professor at the University of Ljubljana, a member of the Slovene Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the founder of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering. Between 1928 and 1929 he was the 10th Chancellor of the University of Ljubljana. In 1948 he established the Institute of Electrotechnics that now bears his name.[2]


Chess career


Vidmar was also a top-class chess player, probably one of the best dozen players in the world from 1910 to 1930, all the while remaining an amateur. He was awarded the Grandmaster title by FIDE in 1950, when titles were introduced.

His successes include high places at some of the top chess tournaments of his time, e.g. sixth at Carlsbad 1907, third at Prague 1908, first at Gothenburg 1909 (the 7th Nordic Chess Championship), second at San Sebastián 1911 with Akiba Rubinstein behind José Raúl Capablanca, first at Budapest 1912, second at Mannheim 1914, first at Vienna and Berlin in 1918, second at Košice 1928, third at London 1922, shared first with Alexander Alekhine at Hastings 1925/26, third at Semmering 1926, fourth at New York 1927, fourth at London 1927, shared fifth at Carlsbad 1929, tied for 4–7th at Bled 1931, tied for 3–6th at Stuttgart 1939, second behind Max Euwe at Budapest 1940, first at Basel 1952.

Vidmar represented Yugoslavia in the Chess Olympiads of Prague 1931 (board one, 8½/16) and Stockholm 1935 (board one, 8½/14).[3]

Vidmar became an arbiter, earning the title of International Arbiter from FIDE, and was chief referee for the 1948 World Chess Championship in The Hague/Moscow.


Major writings


Books on chess:

Others:


Family


His younger brother, Josip Vidmar, was an influential Slovenian literary critic and public intellectual; his son, Milan Vidmar, Jr. was an International Master of chess.


Tributes


The Slovene Chess Federation organizes an international grandmaster tournament named the Milan Vidmar memorial.[4]


References


  1. Milan Vidmar. Central European Science Adventure.
  2. "Elektroinštitut Milan Vidmar". Retrieved 8 April 2018.
  3. "OlimpBase :: Men's Chess Olympiads :: Milan sr Vidmar". Retrieved 8 April 2018.
  4. dr. Milan Vidmar memorial Tournaments, Slovenian chess federation



На других языках


[de] Milan Vidmar

Milan Vidmar (* 22. Juni 1885 in Laibach, Krain, Österreich-Ungarn; † 9. Oktober 1962 ebenda, Jugoslawien) war ein jugoslawischer Ingenieur der Elektrotechnik, Hochschullehrer und Schach-Großmeister. Obwohl er im Gegensatz zu vielen anderen Meistern seiner Zeit sein Leben lang Amateur blieb, gehörte er für mehrere Jahre zur Weltspitze; laut historischen Berechnungen war er zeitweise der viertstärkste Schachspieler der Welt.
- [en] Milan Vidmar

[es] Milan Vidmar

Milan Vidmar (22 de junio de 1885 – 9 de octubre de 1962) fue un ingeniero eléctrico, jugador y teórico del ajedrez, filósofo y escritor esloveno, nacido en Liubliana, Imperio austrohúngaro (ahora Eslovenia). Fue especialista en transformadores de energía y transmisión de corriente eléctrica.

[ru] Видмар, Милан

Милан Видмар (словен. Milan Vidmar, 22 июня 1885, Любляна — 9 октября 1962, там же) — словенский электротехник, шахматист, философ и писатель.



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