Eduard Glass

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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 third to fifth place in Tel Aviv (the 2nd Maccabiah Games, Abram Blass won). [6] He tied for eighth to tenth place at Budapest 1936 (Mieczysław Najdorf and Lajos Steiner won). [7] After the Anschluss in 1938, he was imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp where he won the camp chess tournament once ahead of Georg Klaus. [8] Later, he moved to China and survived World War II while living in the Shanghai Ghetto. [9]

After the war, Glass participated in the first Israeli Chess Championship in 1951. [10] There, he scored eight points in thirteen games to finish third. The winner, Menachem Oren, achieved nine points [11] [ circular reference ]. Later, Glass placed fifteenth at Marianske Lazne 1959 (Lev Polugaevsky won), [12] and took fifth at Reggio Emilia in 1960-61. [13]

References

  1. ↑ "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
  2. ↑ "Wiener Zeitungs-Schachergebnisserver schach.wienerzeitung.at - Homepage". schach.wienerzeitung.at. Archived from the original on 2011-07-06.
  3. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-02-21. Retrieved 2007-02-21.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ↑ "21 Leopold Trebitsch Memorial". Archived from the original on 2008-12-06. Retrieved 2008-12-06.
  5. ↑ "OlimpBase :: 5th Chess Olympiad, Folkestone 1933, individual results".
  6. ↑ Wolsza, Tadeusz (2007), Arcymistrzowie, mistrzowie, amatorzy. Słownik biograficzny szachistów polskich, tom 5. Wydawnictwo DiG, Warszawa. ISBN   83-7181-495-X
  7. ↑ "All-Union YM 1936". Archived from the original on 2009-12-08. Retrieved 2008-02-16.
  8. ↑ "Zettel 182". Archived from the original on 2011-02-08. Retrieved 2019-01-19.
  9. ↑ "Eröffnung".
  10. ↑ "Jewish Chess History: Aloni - Glass combination". 14 July 2018.
  11. ↑ ru:Орен, Менахем
  12. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2006-04-14. Retrieved 2011-10-20.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  13. ↑ "03 Reggio Emilia Capodanno 1960". Archived from the original on 2021-06-20. Retrieved 2008-12-06.


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