András Adorján

Andras Adorjan [ ɒndra ː ʃ ɒdorja ː n] ( born March 31, 1950 in Budapest) is a Hungarian chess player.

Andras Adorjan named in the late 1960s after the Hungarian flutist same name. Previously, he was András Joha. Under this name a few records of youth games are obtained. Adorjan was founded in 1969 in Stockholm Vice Junior World Champion. In the final, he lost to the later world chess champion Anatoly Karpov.

In 1973, he became an international grandmaster and winning tournaments in Varna and Luhačovice together with Jan Smejkal. In 1974 he was winner of the tournament in Olot. In the interzonal tournament in Riga to Adorjan 1979 qualified for a playoff win against Zoltán Ribli for the following candidates tournament, where they lost in the quarterfinals in 1980 his match against Robert Hübner short of 4.5:5.5.

Adorjan is an experienced tournament player, his successes include winning the Hungarian Cup in 1984 and the New York Open in 1987.

He played in the Chess Olympiad 1984 in Thessaloniki on the third board for Hungary. The picture shows him along with József Pintér, who won a gold medal.

For mental health problems he takes in recent years but hardly any part in tournaments. In the 1989/90 season he played for the SG Kirchheim in the Chess League.

He is regarded as a specialist opening, especially in the Grünfeld Indian Defence. In the English Opening an incipient 1.c4 g6 2.e4 with the trains e5 variant is named after him. Unlike many other grandmasters Adorjan is convinced that there is no disadvantage to play with the black pieces. He published several books on this topic.

As a coach, he worked on Garry Kasparov and Péter Lékó. His Elo rating is 2504 (as of April 2008).

Works

  • Grünfeld Indian Defence - played correctly ( Jeno Döry ). T. Beyer, Hollfeld 1989, ISBN 3-8916-8009-0.
  • Black is OK. Batsford Ltd., London, 1988, ISBN 3-8044-1353-6, ( German translation Black is OK. T. Beyer, Hollfeld 1990, ISBN 3-8044-1353-6 ).
  • Quo vadis, Garry? Andras Adorjan analyzed Kasparov's way. Chess Publishing Dreier, Mannheim, 1990, ISBN 3-9802-5740-1.
  • Black is super ... in Sicilian Sveshnikov ( with Tamás Horváth ). Black is OK Books, Budapest (?) 1993, ISBN 963-04-2653-6.
  • Black is quiet OK. Batsford Ltd., London 2004, ISBN 0-713-48870-0.
  • Black is OK forever. Batsford Ltd., London 2005, ISBN 0-7134-8942-1.
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