Milan Vidmar (June 22, 1885 – October 9, 1962) was a Slovene electrical engineer, chess player, chess theorist, philosopher and writer, born in Ljubljana, Austria-Hungary (now Slovenia). He was a specialist in power transformers and transmission of electric current. Jump to: navigation, search June 22 is the 173rd day of the year (174th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 192 days remaining. ... 1885 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Jump to: navigation, search October 9 is the 282nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (283rd in Leap years). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1962 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... An engineers degree is an academic degree which is intermediate in rank between a masters degree and a doctorate; it is occasionally to be encountered in the United States in technical fields. ... A chess table is a table with a chessboard painted or engraved on it. ... Jump to: navigation, search A philosopher is a person devoted to studying and producing results in philosophy. ... Jump to: navigation, search The term writer can apply to anyone who creates a written work, but the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... Tromostovje (Tromostovje) and Franciscan church (FrančiÅ¡kanska cerkev) in baroque style in the back Ljubljana (IPA ), German Laibach (), Italian Lubiana () is the capital of Slovenia, situated on the outfall of the river Ljubljanica into the Sava, in central Slovenia, between the Alps and the Mediterranean. ... Austria-Hungary, also known as the Dual monarchy (or: the k. ... Jump to: navigation, search A transformer is an electrical device that transfers energy from one electrical circuit to another by magnetic coupling but without any moving parts. ... In communications, transmission is the act of transmitting electrical messages (and the associated phenonomena of radiant energy that pass through media). ... In electricity, current is the rate of flow of charges, usually through a metal wire or some other electrical conductor. ...

Milan Vidmar

He began to study a mechanical engineering in 1902 and he graduated in 1907 at the University of Vienna. He got his doctor's degree in 1911 from the Technical faculty in Vienna. The study of an electrical engineering at Technical faculty began not until 1904, so Vidmar had to take special examinations of the field basics. He was a professor at the University of Ljubljana, a member of the Slovene Academy of Arts and Sciences (SAZU), and the founder of the Faculty of Electrical engineering. Between 1928 and 1929 he was the 10th Chancellor of the University of Ljubljana. In 1948 he established the Institute of Eletrotechnics that now bears his name. Milan Vidmar File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... The Ford Essex V6 engine Mechanical engineering is the application of physical principles to the creation of useful reality for machine design. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1902 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1907 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Vienna (German: Wien [viːn]; Hungarian: Bécs) is the capital of Austria, and also one of Austrias nine federal states (Bundesland Wien). ... Jump to: navigation, search Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1911 was a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline that deals with the study and application of electricity and electromagnetism. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1904 is a leap year starting on a Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... The University of Ljubljana (in Slovenian, Univerza v Ljubljani; in Latin, Universitas Labacensis) is the first and the largest university in Slovenia; with 56,000 enrolled students it is also amongst the largest universities in the world. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1928 was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1929 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Vidmar was also a top-class chess International Grandmaster, probably one of the top half dozen players in the world from 1911 to 1929, all while remaining an amateur. The five original grandmasters of chess, from left to right: Lasker (seated), Alekhine, Capablanca, Marshall, Tarrasch (seated) The title International Grandmaster is awarded to world-class chess masters by the world chess organization FIDE. Apart from World Champion, Grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can attain. ...

His successes include high places at some of the top chess tournaments of his time, e.g. Karlsbad 1907, 3rd at Prague 1908, 2nd= at San Sebastian 1911 with Akiba Rubinstein behind José Raúl Capablanca, Budapest 1912, Ist at Vienna and Berlin in 1918, 2nd at Kaschau 1928, 3rd at London 1922 behind José Raúl Capablanca and Alexander Alekhine, Hastings 1925, 3rd at Semmering 1926, 4th at New York 1927, 4th at London 1927, 5th at Karlsbad 1929, Bled 1939, Basel 1952). The Slovene Chess Federation organizes an international chess grandmaster tournament named the Milan Vidmar memorial. the traditional English name for the city and spa Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic Carlsbad, California Carlsbad, New Mexico, with Carlsbad Caverns National Park nearby Carlsbad, Texas ... 1907 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search Prague (Czech: Praha, see also other names) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. ... 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Vidmar became an arbiter, and was chief referee for the 1948 World Chess Championship tournament in The Hague/Moscow. Jump to: navigation, search 1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search The 1984 World Chess Championship was between Anatoly Karpov (right) and Garry Kasparov (left). ... Arms of The Hague The Hague (with capital T; Dutch: Den Haag, or officially s-Gravenhage) is the administrative capital of the Netherlands, located in the west of the country, in the province South Holland of which it is also the capital. ... Moscow (Russian: Москва́, Moskva, IPA:   listen?) is the capital of Russia, located on the river Moskva. ...

Vidmar wrote several books on chess, including Pol stoletja ob šahovnici (Half a century at the chessboard) (Ljubljana 1951), Šah (Chess), Razgovori o šahu z začetnikom (Conversations on chess with a beginner), and, in German, Goldene Schachzeiten (The Golden Times of Chess) and others Transformatorji (Transformers), Problemi prenosa električne energije (Problems of electric energy transmission), Pogovori o elektrotehniki (Talkings about electrotechnics), Med Evropo in Ameriko (Between Europe and America), Moj pogled na svet (My view of the World), Oslovski most (Pons asinorum) (Merkur, Ljubljana 1936). Jump to: navigation, search 1951 was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1936 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

The "ZBD" model transformer was invented by three Hungarian engineers: Ottó Bláthy, Miksa Déri and Károly Zipernowsky in a year of Vidmar's birth in 1885 (and in the same year Stanley invents his transformer). Jump to: navigation, search Look up engineer on Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Ottó Titusz Bláthy (1860-1939), was a Hungarian electrical engineer, co-inventor of the electric transformer, the tension regulator, the watt meter, the alternating current (AC) electric motor, the turbogenerator and high efficiency turbogenerator. ... Miksa Déri (1854 - 1938), was a Hungarian electrical engineer, co-inventor of the transformer and the ZBD model AC electrical generator. ... Károly Zipernowsky (1853 - 1942), was a Hungarian electrical engineer of Slovak origins. ... 1885 is a common year starting on Thursday. ...

External links

• The Milan Vidmar Electric Power Research Institute (EIMV)
• Richard Strange's Milan Vidmar chess games