Leon Kremer (1901–1941) was a Polish
chess
Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...
master.
He played several times in the Warsaw championships, and won in 1929. He also took 6th in 1925 (
Stanisław Kohn
Stanisław Kohn (1895–1940) was a Polish chess master.
Kohn played for Poland in 1st unofficial Chess Olympiad at Paris 1924.
In 1925, he won the Warsaw Championship. In 1926, he tied for 3rd-7th, behind Dawid Przepiórka and Paulin Frydman i ...
won), took 4th in 1926 (
Abram Blass
Moshe Aba Blass (born 1896, Łomża, Poland - 1971, Tel-Aviv, Israel) was a Polish-Israeli chess master.
Born in Łomża (then Russian Empire), he moved to the US, staying from 1911 to 1924. After returning to Poland, he lived in Warsaw. In 1924/2 ...
and
Paulin Frydman won), shared 1st with Kohn in 1927, tied for 6-8th in 1928 (Blass won), and took 3rd in 1930 (Frydman won).
He twice represented Warsaw in the Polish team championships at Królewska Huta 1929 and Katowice 1934. He played four times in the
Polish championships; took 11th at Warsaw 1926 (
Dawid Przepiórka
Dawid Przepiórka (22 December 1880 – presumed April 1940) was a prominent Polish chess player of the early twentieth century.
Biography
Dawid Przepiórka was born 22 December 1880 in Warsaw, Poland (then part of the Russian Empire), to a ...
won), took 9th at Lodz 1927 (
Akiba Rubinstein
Akiba Kiwelowicz Rubinstein (1 December 1880 – 14 March 1961) was a Polish chess player. He is considered to have been one of the greatest players never to have become World Chess Champion. Rubinstein was granted the title Grandmaster (chess), ...
won), tied for 12-14th at Warsaw 1935 (
Savielly Tartakower
Savielly Tartakower (also known as ''Xavier'' or ''Ksawery'' ''Tartakower'', less often ''Tartacover'' or ''Tartakover''; 21 February 1887 – 4 February 1956) was a Polish and French chess player. He was awarded the title of International Grand ...
won), and tied for 14-16th at Jurata 1937 (Tartakower won).
Kremer played for Poland at sixth board (+14 –4 =2) in
3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad The 3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad was held by German Chess Federation (''Grossdeutscher Schachbund'') as a counterpart of the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin with reference to 1924 and 1928 events. Many Jewish chess players took part in the event. Si ...
at Munich 1936, and won two silver medals (team and individual).
OlimpBase :: Chess Olympiad, Munich 1936, individual results
See also
* List of Jewish chess players
Jews, Jewish players and Chess theory, theoreticians have long been involved in the game of chess and have significantly contributed to the development of chess, which has been described as the "Jewish National game". Chess gained po ...
References
External links
Leon Kremer at 365Chess.com
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1901 births
1941 deaths
20th-century Polish Jews
Polish chess players
Jewish chess players
Place of birth missing
20th-century chess players