Milan Vidmar
Slovenian chess player
- Lived
- 1885–1962
- Country
- Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
Updated September 2026
About Milan Vidmar
Milan Vidmar was a Yugoslav-Slovenian electrical engineer, chess player, chess theorist, and writer. He was among the top dozen chess players in the world from 1910 to 1930 and in 1950, was among the inaugural recipients of the title International Grandmaster from FIDE. Vidmar was a specialist in power transformers and transmission of electric current.
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