Gyula Breyer
Gyula "Julius" Breyer was a Hungarian chess player and 1912 Hungarian national champion.
Chess career
In 1912, Breyer won the Hungarian championship in Temesvar. In a 1920 tournament in Berlin, he finished first ahead of Efim Bogoljubow, Savielly Tartakower, Richard Réti, Géza Maróczy, and Siegbert Tarrasch. Breyer had a plus record against Max Euwe.In 1921, Breyer set a new blindfold chess record by playing 25 games simultaneously. He also edited Szellemi Sport, a magazine devoted to chess puzzles, and composed at least one brilliant retrograde analysis study.
Heart disease cut short Breyer's promising chess career. He died in 1921 at the age of 28 in Bratislava. He was buried in Bratislava and after exhumation in 1987, was reburied in the Kerepesi Cemetery in Budapest.
Legacy
Breyer was a leading pioneer of the hypermodern school of chess theory, which favoured controlling the with pressure from the. He was a friend of Richard Réti and an inspiration to other players.He is most notably recognised for the Breyer Variation in the Ruy Lopez, which involves Black re-routing his to d7 for increased flexibility. This line became fashionable in the 1960s, and a favourite of ex-world champion Boris Spassky. He is also recognised for the Breyer Variation of the Vienna Gambit, as well as the Breyer Gambit, a variation of the King's Gambit. He was an early adopter of the Slav Defense at a time when the Queen's Gambit Declined was Black's most common response to the Queen's Gambit, and is credited with the Breyer Variation of the Slav.