Israel Albert Horowitz

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Israel Albert Horowitz (born November 15, 1907 in Brooklyn , New York City , † January 18, 1973 in New York City) was an American chess player .

Horowitz was one of the best players in the United States in the 1930s , so he took part in three Chess Olympiads in 1931 , 1935 and 1937 in the winning team and later in the Chess Olympiad in 1950 , where he only three games out of a total of 29 wins and 19 draws lost. The US Open he won in 1936, 1938 and 1943. The US championship he played in May 1941, where he lost a duel against Samuel Reshevsky without a win with three defeats and thirteen draws. Horowitz achieved his best historical rating of 2680 in January 1943, which put him in 10th place in the subsequently calculated world rankings.

In the radio competition between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1945 , he played on board 4 against Salo Flohr . Horowitz won one of his two games and lost the other.

For his chess successes, he was awarded the title at the first award of the title International Master . A year later he became an international chess referee .

As a chess author, Horowitz became known as the editor of Chess Review and the successor magazine Chess Life and Review , as well as through several books. He also edited a column in the New York Times for over two decades .

Six chess studies by Horowitz, published from 1926 to 1971, are known, three of them together with Isaac Kashdan .

Works

  • Let's play chess (1950)
  • Modern ideas in the chess openings (1953)
  • How to improve your chess (1954)
  • Chess for beginners (1956)
  • Chess traps, pitfalls, and swindles (1956)
  • The Macmillan handbook of chess (1956)
  • How to win in the chess endings (1957)
  • Point count chess (1960)
  • How to win in the chess openings (1961)
  • Solitaire chess (1962)
  • Winning chess tactics illustrated (1963)
  • The personality of chess (1963)
  • Chess openings theory and practice (1964)
  • The best in chess (1966)
  • All about chess (1971)
  • Chess games to remember (1972)
  • The world chess championship (1973)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ MEN'S CHESS OLYMPIADS - Horowitz, Israel Albert (United States) on Olimpbase (English)
  2. ^ Result of a duel against Samuel Reshevsky , accessed on September 27, 2011.
  3. ↑ Chessmetrics Player Profile: Al Horowitz , accessed September 27, 2011.
  4. ↑ Bill Wall: USA vs USSR radio match, 1945 ( Memento from October 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ Profile at chessgames.com , accessed on September 27, 2011.
  6. ↑ Harold van der Heijden : hhdbiv . October 2010

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personal data
SURNAME Horowitz, Israel Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Horowitz, Al
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chess player
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York City
DATE OF DEATH 18th January 1973
Place of death New York City