Eduard Glass
Eduard (Esra) Glass (born 1902 - died after 1980) was an Austrian chess master.
He won at Vienna 1927,[1] and shared 1st with Erich Eliskases at Innsbruck 1929 (Austrian Chess Championship).[2] He played several times in the Trebitsch Memorial in Vienna.[3][4]
Glass represented Austria in the 5th Chess Olympiad at Folkestone 1933.[5] In April 1935, he tied for 3rd-5th in Tel Aviv (the 2nd Maccabiah Games, Abram Blass won).[6] He tied for 8-10th at Budapest 1936 (Mieczysław Najdorf and Lajos Steiner won).[7] After Anschluss in 1938, he became imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp where he won the camp chess tournament once ahead of Georg Klaus.[8] Later he moved to China, and living in the Shanghai Ghetto survived World War II.[9]
After the war, Glass participated in the first Israeli Chess Championship in 1951.[10] There he collected 8 points in 13 games, finishing on rank 3. The winner, Menachem Oren, achieved 9 points[11][circular reference]. Later Glass took 15th at Marianske Lazne 1959 (Lev Polugaevsky won),[12] and took 5th at Reggio Emilia 1960/61.[13]
References
[edit]- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-07-04. Retrieved 2010-07-27.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's Chess Tournament Crosstables, An Electronic Edition, Anders Thulin, Malmö, 2004-09-01 - ^ "Wiener Zeitungs-Schachergebnisserver schach.wienerzeitung.at - Homepage". schach.wienerzeitung.at. Archived from the original on 2011-07-06.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-02-21. Retrieved 2007-02-21.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "21 Leopold Trebitsch Memorial". Archived from the original on 2008-12-06. Retrieved 2008-12-06.
- ^ "OlimpBase :: 5th Chess Olympiad, Folkestone 1933, individual results".
- ^ Wolsza, Tadeusz (2007), Arcymistrzowie, mistrzowie, amatorzy. Słownik biograficzny szachistów polskich, tom 5. Wydawnictwo DiG, Warszawa. ISBN 83-7181-495-X
- ^ "All-Union YM 1936". Archived from the original on 2009-12-08. Retrieved 2008-02-16.
- ^ "Zettel 182". Archived from the original on 2011-02-08. Retrieved 2019-01-19.
- ^ "Eröffnung".
- ^ "Jewish Chess History: Aloni - Glass combination". 14 July 2018.
- ^ ru:Орен, Менахем
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2006-04-14. Retrieved 2011-10-20.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "03 Reggio Emilia Capodanno 1960". Archived from the original on 2021-06-20. Retrieved 2008-12-06.
External links
[edit]- Eduard Glass player profile and games at Chessgames.com
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