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Laszlo Witt (born April, 1933 in Budapest, Hungary, died December 27, 2005 in Toronto, Canada) was a Hungarian-Canadian International Master of chess. ==Biography== ===Early life=== Laszlo (Leslie) Witt was born in Hungary and lived there until 1956. He began playing chess at age eight, and by 17 was the top junior player in Hungary.〔Catherine Dunphy's obituary of Witt, ''Toronto Star'', Feb. 19, 2006〕 Witt was part of an exceptionally talented cohort of young Hungarian chess players. Contemporaries in his age group included future Grandmasters Levente Lengyel, Gyozo Forintos, and Istvan Bilek, future International Master and noted writer Egon Varnusz, and future world-class Grandmaster Lajos Portisch, who was a bit younger. Grandmaster Laszlo Szabo (chess player) of Budapest was among the world's top ten players for some 20 years during this era. ===Defects, emigrates to Canada=== Witt emigrated to Canada following the failed Hungarian Revolution of 1956, which was crushed by the Soviet Union. He was competing in a chess tournament in Vienna, Austria at that time. Witt's wife Viola and young daughter Sylvia fled Hungary, and joined him in an Austrian refugee camp; by early 1957 the Witts, a Jewish family, had reached Halifax, Nova Scotia, where Viola had a relative. The Witts made their new home in Montreal.〔''Leslie Witt -- tribute to a legend'', by Robert Hamilton, ''Chess Canada'', April 2006, pp. 16-19〕 Witt made his career in the electronics industry. Witt was one of four very strong Hungarian chess players who emigrated to Canada around this time, along with Geza Fuster, Dr. Elod Macskasy, and Andrew Kalotay; all four earned Master titles in Canada, and represented Canada in international team competition. ===Canadian chess successes=== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Laszlo Witt」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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