Gyula Makovetz

Gyula Makovetz ( born December 29, 1860 in Arad, † 1903 in Budapest) was a Hungarian chess master and chess journalist.

Some sources say he was born in 1859. Makovetz studied law in Budapest, in 1889 he moved permanently to the Hungarian capital. He was a civil servant at the Commercial and Industrial Chamber. Makovetz 1889 was a founding member of Budapesti Sakkozó Társaság ( Budapest Chess Club ), the first Hungarian chess magazine Budapesti Sakkszemle published under his auspices. Makovetz 1890 won the first tournament of the club with a hundred percent result. In the next two years Makovetz won again.

He won at the tournament in Graz in 1890 before Johann Hermann Bauer and Emanuel Lasker and won the match against Lasker. Together with Moritz Porges, he finished second at the Congress of the German Chess Federation in 1892 in Dresden behind Tarrasch. In the match, he defeated both Győző Exner and Hugo servant. Makovetz won in 1893 in a match against Rudolf Charousek with 3: 2 after he had won the last two games. But Makovetz had already begun to doubt his chess skills, and always lost games exercise more often, even against Géza Maroczy. In addition, his chess magazine in 1894 went through a one-year break, the definitive end came in 1895. It was a major setback for him, it was the chess column in Pesti Napló, but not enough for him as a material basis for it.

In preparation for Budapest Millennium chess tournament in the autumn of 1896 he played practice games with Dawid Janowski, who beat him scathingly. A year after, Makovetz had recovered somewhat, but he was clearly beaten again by Charousek as well as of Maroczy and then completely withdrew from chess and life back. After his death there was no obituary, his date of death is unknown. He suffered the tragic fate of a chess master, who could not succeed as a professional player and failed because of the unfavorable circumstances of the times.

Maroczy reported in his memoirs: "He ( Makovetz ) has completely avoided dealing with people. His gloom gave way to paranoia, in each he saw the enemy who threatened his life. He also has the doctor refused. By his death, the chess world has experienced even late. "

When his highest historical Elo rating a value of 2696 ( February 1893 ) was calculated. Thus Makovetz was the fifth strongest player in the world at this time.