Lajos Steiner

Lajos Steiner (14 June 1903, in Nagyvárad (Oradea) – 22 April 1975, in Sydney) was a Hungarian–born Australian chess master.

He was educated at the Technical High School in Budapest, and graduated in 1926 with a diploma in mechanical engineering from the Technikum Mittweida in Germany.

[1] In 1931, he won in Budapest (HUN-ch), took 5th in Vienna, and tied for 5-6th in Berlin.

In 1935, he tied for 1st-2nd with Erich Eliskases in Vienna (the 18th Trebitsch Memorial).

He won the Australian Chess Championship four times in 1945, 1946/47, 1952/53, and 1958/59.

He also won nine of his ten attempts at the New South Wales title (1940–41, 1943, 1944, 1945–46, 1953, 1955, 1958).

He was awarded the International Master (IM) title in 1950.