István Csom

István CSOM ( born June 2, 1940 in Sátoraljaújhely ) is a Hungarian chess player and umpire. The FIDE title of International Master in 1967 he was awarded the Grandmaster title in 1973. Since 1991 he is also the official FIDE International Arbiter.

1972 and 1973 ( shared ), he was Hungarian champion. He won tournaments in for example Amsterdam ( 1969), Olot (1973 ), Cleveland and the zone tournament in Pula ( 1975), and Hanover ( 1976), Berlin (1979 ), Copenhagen ( 1983), Järvenpää (1985) and Delhi (1987 ). In the Senior World Championship 2001 in Italy Arco he finished second behind Jānis Klovans.

In the European Team Championships in Bath in 1973 he received the Gold Medal as the best player on the fifth board (with a 5.5 out of 7). With the Hungarian national team, he participated in nine Chess Olympiads, with Hungary in 1978 the tournament and he a single title (7 out of 9 on the fourth board ) won with him in 1980. In the World Team Championship in 1985 in Lucerne, he finished with the Hungarian team to second place.

Csom plays in the first Hungarian League ( for ASE Paks) and in the Austrian league play (up to the 2001/02 season for stone / Steyr, since the 2007 /08 season for Kremsmuenster ); in the German chess club he played for the Preetzer TSV in the 2001/ 02 season. His Elo rating is 2407 (as of January 2014), its highest ever Elo rating was 2545 in January 1989.