Samuel Gold (July 2, 1835, Kővágó-Örs, Zala,

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– November 9, 1920,

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) was a Hungarian physician, journalist and composer of chess problems.

Biography

He was born into a

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family in Kővágóörs, a town located on the shores of Lake Balaton. He learned playing chess at the age of 15 during his years spent in a high school. In 1857, he departed to Vienna for following the courses of a medical school. Gold published his first chess compositions in the '' Budapest Vasárnapi Újság'' and the '' Wiener Illustrirte Zeitung'' in 1857. He became a chess editor for the '' Der Osten'' in 1864, and later for other newspapers, among which the '' Allgemeine Sport-Zeitung''. In 1883, he published his collection of ''200 Schachaufgaben'' (Vienna, 1883). Since 1887, he was the first and only chess teacher to Carl Schlechter in Vienna. He arrived in America on December 11, 1892, and immediately published two chess problems in the '' New York Sun''. Gold remained in New York for the rest of his life. He died in

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at the age of 85, and was buried (funeral from the chapel of

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, 159 West 120th St.) in the presence of a small group of Hungarian relatives and friends in the evening of November 11, 1920.

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Jewish chess players Hungarian chess players Austrian chess players American chess players Chess composers Hungarian Jews Austro-Hungarian emigrants to the United States American people of Hungarian-Jewish descent People from Veszprém County 1835 births 1920 deaths {{US-chess-bio-stub