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Lajos Portisch
Lajos Portisch (born April 4, 1937 in Zalaegerszeg, Hungary) is a Hungarian chess player, whose positional style earned him the nickname of the "Hungarian Botvinnik". One of the strongest non-Soviet grandmasters in the 1960s and 1970s, he participated in twelve straight Interzonals and qualified for the World Chess Championship candidates cycle five times.
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