Zsuzsa Makai
{{short description|Romanian-Hungarian chess player}}
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| death_place = Budapest, Hungary
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| title = Woman International Master (1970)
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Zsuzsa Makai (3 September 1945 – 12 May 1987), born as Suzana Makai, was a Romanian and Hungarian chess player. She holds the title of Woman International Master (WIM, 1970). She is a Hungarian Women's Chess Champion (1980).
Early life
She was born to a Hungarian medical family in Romania. She learned to play chess at age 12. In 1959, she won the Romanian Youth Chess Championship. In 1960, at age fifteen, she debuted in the Romanian Women's Chess Championship. Thereafter she won 5 medals there: 3 silver (1966, 1974, 1976) and 2 bronzes (1972, 1975).{{cite web|url=http://www.frsah.ro/prezentare.htm|title=Federaţia Română de Şah: Prezentare|first=Zidaru|last=Nicolae|website=www.frsah.ro}} Between 1972 and 1976, she won the Romanian team chess championship five times with Timișoara
In 1977 she moved to Hungary and in the same year won the bronze medal in the Hungarian Women's Chess Championship. In 1980, she won that contest.
Makai played for Romania and Hungaria in the Women's Chess Olympiads:{{cite web|url=http://www.olimpbase.org/playersw/rnlzfxzd.html|title=OlimpBase :: Women's Chess Olympiads :: Zsuzsa Makai|first=Wojciech|last=Bartelski|website=www.olimpbase.org}}
- In 1969, at first reserve board in the 4th Women's Chess Olympiad in Lublin (+5, =3, -0) and won individual silver medal.
- In 1978, at third board in the 8th Chess Olympiad (women) in Buenos Aires (+5, =4, -1) and won team silver medal.
References
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External links
- {{chessgames player|id=113517}}
- [https://www.365chess.com/players/Zsuzsa_Makai Zsuzsa Makai] chess games at 365Chess.com
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Category:Sportspeople from Oradea
Category:Hungarian female chess players
Category:Hungarian chess players
Category:Romanian female chess players
Category:Romanian chess players
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Category:Chess Olympiad competitors
Category:20th-century chess players