Oscar Blum (1886 – ?) was a Lithuanian–French

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 was pushed off Lenin's 1917 train by Lenin himself This incident is mentioned in Ben Kingsley's Lenin movie ( Lenin...The Train), and in James Wollrab: Russian Winter p. 206 In 1923 his book ''Russiche Köpfe'' was published in Germany. He described

Grigory Zinoviev Grigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev, . Transliterated ''Grigorii Evseevich Zinov'ev'' according to the Library of Congress system. (born Hirsch Apfelbaum, – 25 August 1936), known also under the name Ovsei-Gershon Aronovich Radomyslsky (russian: Ов ...

as a dreamer, a sleepwalker, who lived in a world of pure literature.

Chess

He won, ahead of

Nicolas Rossolimo Nicolas Rossolimo (russian: Николай Спиридонович Россоли́мо, translit=Nikolai Spiridonovich Rossolimo; February 28, 1910 – July 24, 1975) was a Russian Empire-born chess player. After acquiring Greek citizenship in 1 ...

and

Vitaly Halberstadt Vitaly Halberstadt (20 March 1903, Odessa – 25 October 1967, Paris) was a French chess player, theorist, tactician, problemist, and, above all, a noted endgame study composer. Born in Odessa, in the Kherson Governorate of the Russian Empire (pre ...

, in the 8th

Paris City Chess Championship The first Paris City Chess Championship was held in 1925. Since 1989 the title of Paris Champion has been awarded to the highest-placed French player licensed in Île-de-France , timezone1 = CET , utc_offset1 = +0 ...

in 1932. Dr Oscar Blum played at Folkestone 1933. He participated not in the

5th Chess Olympiad The 5th Chess Olympiad, organized by the FIDE and comprising an openAlthough commonly referred to as the ''men's division'', this section is open to both male and female players. and (unofficial) women's tournament, as well as several events desig ...

but in the ''General Congress'', finishing second, half a point behind

Eugene Znosko-Borovsky Eugene Znosko-Borovsky (russian: Евге́ний Алекса́ндрович Зноско-Боро́вский, Yevgeny Alexandrovich Znosko-Borovsky; 16 August 1884 – 31 December 1954) was a Russian chess player, music critic, music and drama ...

.NED-ch08 The Hague/Leiden 1933

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