Rafał Feinmesser (1895 – ?) 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 was killed in the Holocaust in Warszawa.
He played several times in the Warsaw championships. He tied for 5-6th 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
Paulino (Paulin) Frydman (26 May 1905 in Warsaw, Poland – 2 February 1982 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) was a Polish chess master.
Career
In 1922, Paulin Frydman took 2nd place, behind Kazimierz Makarczyk in Warsaw. In 1923, he tied for 2nd-4 ...
won), tied for 6-7th in 1927 (
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 ...
and
Leon Kremer
Leon Kremer (1901–1941) was a Polish chess master.
He played several times in the Warsaw championships, and won in 1929. He also took 6th in 1925 (Stanisław Kohn won), took 4th in 1926 (Abram Blass and Paulin Frydman won), shared 1st with Kohn ...
won), took 10th in 1928 (Blass won), tied for 5-6th in 1929 (Kremer won), tied for 10-11th in 1930 (Frydman won).
Feinmesser, along with other members of the Warsaw team (Blass, Frydman, Kohn, Kremer,
Karol Piltz
Karol Piltz (1903–1939) was a Polish chess master.
He played for Poland in the 1st unofficial Chess Olympiad at Paris 1924, tied for 3rd-7th in the 1st Polish Chess Championship at Warsaw 1926 (Dawid Przepiórka won), and tied for 17-18th at Ju ...
,
Henryk Pogorieły
Henryk Pogorieły (1908 in Warsaw – 1943 in Warsaw) was a Polish chess master.
He took 4th in the Warsaw Championship in 1928. Pogorieły, along with other members of the Warsaw team (Abram Blass, Rafał Feinmesser, Paulin Frydman, Stanisław K ...
) won gold medal in the 1st Polish Team Championship at Królewska Huta 1929.
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References
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 ...
Jewish chess players
Polish chess players
Polish Jews who died in the Holocaust
Place of birth missing
Year of death missing
Year of birth missing
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