Abraham Kupchik
Abraham Kupchik (born March 25, 1892 in Brest , † November 26, 1970 in Montclair , New Jersey ) was an American chess player .
Kupchik grew up in a Jewish family in Brest in what was then the Russian Empire (now Belarus ). In 1903 the family emigrated to the USA.
He won the Manhattan Chess Club championship ten times alone and once shared. In 1915 he reached third and fourth place in New York with Oscar Chajes , behind José Raúl Capablanca and Frank Marshall . In the following year he was in the same place again behind Capablanca shared 2nd – 4th. with Dawid Janowski and Boris Kostić . In 1918 he won in Rye Beach (New York).
After the First World War , he won the New York State Championship in Troy in 1919 . In 1923 he took shared first place with Marshall at the 9th American Chess Congress in Lake Hopatcong. In New York in 1924 he lost a match against Efim Bogoljubow (+1 = 2 −3). A year later, again in New York, he held a match against Carlos Torre Repetto (+1 = 4 −1). In 1926 he finished second in Lake Hopatcong behind Capablanca.
Kupchik played for the US national team at the 1935 Chess Olympiad in Warsaw . On the third board he had a record of six wins and eight draws with no loss. He won the gold medal with the team and bronze in the individual competition. He played on board nine in the USA - Soviet Union radio competition in 1945, but lost to Vladimir Makogonov ½: 1½.
His best historical rating was calculated to be 2641 for August 1926; so he was in 14th place in the world rankings.
His style of play was solid and pragmatic. "Kuppele", as it was called in American chess circles, played mostly undemanding openings, switched to the defensive and tried to exploit opponent's mistakes. This proved to be very effective, especially in blitz chess , but was unattractive for spectators. Because of this reputation, he was not invited to the 1924 New York International Tournament, although he was one of the best American players at the time.
Kupchik was an accountant and lived in Brooklyn with his family . He had two children.
In 2014 he was inducted into the US Chess Hall of Fame .
Web links
- Replayable chess games by Abraham Kupchik on chessgames.com (English)
- Picture by Abraham Kupchik ( Memento from July 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Manhattan Chess Club via oocities.org
- ↑ Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's Chess Tournament Crosstables ( Memento from April 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 847 kB), An Electronic Edition, Anders Thulin, Malmö, September 1, 2004
- ↑ Statistics on OlimpBase.com
- ↑ Notation of the games (English)
- ↑ chessmetrics.com
- ↑ The Bobby Fischer I Knew And Other Stories , Arnold Denker and Larry Parr , San Francisco 1995, Hypermodern Press.
- ↑ Abraham Kupchik at worldchesshof.org, accessed on October 12, 2015
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kupchik, Abraham |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American chess player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 25, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brest |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 26, 1970 |
| Place of death | Montclair , New Jersey |