Hans Kmoch

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Hans Kmoch (born July 25, 1894 in Vienna , † February 14, 1973 in New York City ) was an Austrian chess player , chess referee and chess journalist who emigrated to the USA .

Live and act

In 1921 he and Josef Krejcik achieved the championship title by sharing first place in the main tournament of the Austrian Chess Association . In the mid-1920s he drew international attention with good results. He won an international tournament in Debrecen in 1925 and shared 3rd and 4th place in Budapest in 1926. In 1930 he won well-attended tournaments in Vienna and Ebensee . In 1927 , 1930 and 1931 he represented Austria at the Chess Olympiad . In 1934 he took part in a Soviet tournament in Leningrad with Max Euwe , where he tied for 7th and 8th place. His last tournament as an active player was Baarn in 1941, where he finished second behind Max Euwe.

It reached its best historical rating of 2664 in April 1941.

Since he began a chess career, he has also been a journalist. He reported on international chess events for chess and daily newspapers all over the world. He took over the chess section in the New Vienna Journal from Georg Marco . He also wrote for the Vienna chess newspaper and was known for his parodies of well-known chess masters. In 1930 he published a supplement to the manual of the game of chess founded by Paul Rudolph von Bilguer . He benefited from the fact that Albert Becker made his extensive opening file available to him.

Kmoch was the second of Alexander Alekhine during his World Cup match against Efim Bogolyubov and tournament director during the World Cup match Alekhine against Max Euwe in 1935.

In 1932 Kmoch, who was married to a Jew , moved from Austria to the Netherlands , after the end of the Second World War , in 1947, to the USA. Here he worked for chess magazines such as Chess Life and Chess Review . In 1950 FIDE awarded him the title of International Master and in 1951 that of International Referee .

Kmoch made a lasting name for himself with his books, which are still valued.

Publications

  • The art of defense , Berlin / Leipzig 1927.
  • Addendum to the manual of the chess game by Bilguer for the years 1916–1929 , Berlin / Leipzig 1930.
  • Rubinstein wins! , Vienna 1933.
  • Diary from the Alekhine-Euwe competition , Vienna 1936.
  • The art of leading a farmer . Siegfried Engelhardt, Berlin 1956.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Kmoch's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  2. ↑ Chessmetrics Player Profile April 22, 2006 (English)
  3. ↑ Michael Ehn: Nothing new in the Bilguer. In: Kaissiber 2007, 27, pp. 46–69.
  4. ^ Władysław Litmanowicz & Jerzy Giżycki: Szachy od A do Z. Volume 1, Warsaw 1986, p. 436.
personal data
SURNAME Kmoch, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian chess player
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 1973
Place of death New York City