Eduard Glass Explained

Eduard (Esra) Glass (born 1902 - died after 1980) was an Austrian chess master.

He won at Vienna 1927,[1] and shared 1st with Erich Eliskases at Innsbruck 1929 (Austrian Chess Championship).[2] He played several times in the Trebitsch Memorial in Vienna.[3] [4]

Glass represented Austria in the 5th Chess Olympiad at Folkestone 1933.[5] In April 1935, he tied for 3rd-5th in Tel Aviv (the 2nd Maccabiah Games, Abram Blass won).[6] He tied for 8-10th at Budapest 1936 (Mieczysław Najdorf and Lajos Steiner won).[7] After Anschluss in 1938, he became imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp where he won the camp chess tournament once ahead of Georg Klaus.[8] Later he moved to China, and living in the Shanghai Ghetto survived World War II.[9]

After the war, Glass participated in the first Israeli Chess Championship in 1951.[10] There he collected 8 points in 13 games, finishing on rank 3. The winner, Menachem Oren, achieved 9 points[11] . Later Glass took 15th at Marianske Lazne 1959 (Lev Polugaevsky won),[12] and took 5th at Reggio Emilia 1960/61.[13]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Archived copy . 2010-07-27 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070704030849/http://www.anders.thulin.name/SUBJECTS/CHESS/CTCIndex.pdf . 2007-07-04 . Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's Chess Tournament Crosstables, An Electronic Edition, Anders Thulin, Malmö, 2004-09-01
  2. Web site: Wiener Zeitungs-Schachergebnisserver schach.wienerzeitung.at - Homepage . schach.wienerzeitung.at . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110706095818/http://schach.wienerzeitung.at/Welt.aspx?id=177 . 2011-07-06.
  3. Web site: Archived copy . 2007-02-21 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070221010007/http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/index.htm . 2007-02-21 .
  4. Web site: 21 Leopold Trebitsch Memorial . 2008-12-06 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20081206025115/http://www.endgame.nl/trebitsch.htm . 2008-12-06 .
  5. Web site: OlimpBase :: 5th Chess Olympiad, Folkestone 1933, individual results.
  6. Wolsza, Tadeusz (2007), Arcymistrzowie, mistrzowie, amatorzy. Słownik biograficzny szachistów polskich, tom 5. Wydawnictwo DiG, Warszawa.
  7. Web site: All-Union YM 1936 . 2008-02-16 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20091208191715/http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/tables7.htm . 2009-12-08 .
  8. Web site: Zettel 182 . 2019-01-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110208204026/http://www.ballo.de/zettel_182.htm . 2011-02-08 . dead .
  9. Web site: Eröffnung.
  10. Web site: Jewish Chess History: Aloni - Glass combination. 14 July 2018.
  11. [:ru:Орен, Менахем]
  12. Web site: Archived copy . 2011-10-20 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20060414132700/http://www.chessmetrics.com/ . 2006-04-14 .
  13. Web site: 03 Reggio Emilia Capodanno 1960. 2008-12-06. 2021-06-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20210620041446/http://www.ippogrifoscacchi.it/tdc_storia/data/1960-61.htm. dead.

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