Emil Zinner

Emil Zinner (23 August 1909, in Brno – 8 July 1942, in Majdanek) was a Jewish-Czech chess master.

Biography

He won a tournament at Králicky 1929; tied for 5-6th at Bilina 1930 (Heinz Foerder won);[1] tied for 8-10th at Brno 1931 (Salo Flohr won),[2] tied for 2nd-4th at Moravska Ostrava 1933 (Ernst Grünfeld won); tied for 4-6th at Bad Liebenwerda 1934 (Flohr won); tied for 5-7th at Luhačovice 1935 (Karel Opočenský won); tied for 2nd-3rd, behind Karl Gilg at Konstantinsbad 1935; took 15th at Poděbrady 1936 (Flohr won), and took 2nd, behind Paul Keres, at Prague 1937.[3]

Zinner played for Czechoslovakia in 3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad at Munich 1936, and won an individual bronze medal at third board (+14 –5 =1) there. He also played in 7th Chess Olympiad at Stockholm 1937 at third board (+9 –4 =4).[4]

He was murdered in the Nazi Majdanek concentration camp in 1942.[5]

References

  1. ^ Thulin, Anders (1 September 2004). "Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's Chess Tournament Crosstables, An Electronic Edition" (PDF). Malmö. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 July 2007.
  2. ^ "Nice 1931". Roger Paige's Chess Site. Archived from the original on 7 August 2007.
  3. ^ "1937". Roger Paige's Chess Site. Archived from the original on 21 February 2007.
  4. ^ "Zinner, Emil". OlimpBase. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
  5. ^ Gundacker, Felix (7 October 2004). "Die väterlichen Vorfahren von Senator John Kerry" [The Paternal Ancestors of Senator John Kerry]. Instituts für Historische Familienforschung (in German). Retrieved 26 January 2023.


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