Isador (Isaac) Samuel Turover (

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master.

Biography

Born to a

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family in Poland, he moved to Belgium and then to the United States. He was a champion of Baltimore from 1918 to 1921, won the Washington D.C. championship in 1918 ahead of F.B. Walker and took 2nd, behind Vladimir Sournin, in the D.C. championship in 1920, tied for 8th at Atlantic City 1921 (the Eighth

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;

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won), tied for 4th at Bradley Beach 1928 (

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won), tied for 3rd at Bradley Beach 1929 (

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won), took 8th at New York 1931 (

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won), and took 10th at Ventnor City 1944 ( Jacob Levin won). Turover settled in the Washington area and had a very successful lumber business. He married Bessie Levin and had three daughters: Sylvia, Naomi and Ruth. Turover became a director of the American Chess Foundation. He is also known as a chess patron and philanthropist. He sponsored

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's attendance in the 1962 Stockholm Interzonal. Throughout his life he offered cash prizes and other good for brilliancies in chess games. For instance, in 1930, Turover gave a 500-lire brilliancy prize at the tournament in San Remo. Many years later, in 1973, Turover awarded

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two magnum bottles of the finest French champagne for a brilliancy in a game against Ljubomir Ljuboevic. In 1974 he established the annual World Brilliancy Prize; the first winner was

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, who received $1,000 for his win against

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at the

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References

External links

Isador Samuel Turover at 365Chess.com
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