Paulino Frydman

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Paulino Frydman left at the 1935 Chess Olympiad

Paulino (Paulin) Frydman (born May 26, 1905 in Warsaw , † February 2, 1982 in Buenos Aires ) was a Polish chess master who represented Poland and Argentina.

On his mother's side, Frydman was a nephew of the Polish chess legend Szymon Winawer . He learned to play chess at an early age, when he began playing tournament chess at the age of 16. Frydman was considered a leading Polish chess master in the interwar period. He was second behind Dawid Przepiórka in the 1926 championship of Poland for the first time . In 1935 he was third at the state championship after Savielly Tartakower and Miguel Najdorf . He won the Warsaw championship four times. He took part in all seven Chess Olympiads for Poland from 1928 to 1939 . In 1930 he led Poland to gold medals in Hamburg with Akiba Rubinstein, among others , and he won the silver medal with the team in 1931 and 1939 and bronze in 1928, 1935 and 1937 . In the individual ranking he achieved the second best result on the second and 1939 on the third board, and the third best individual result on the second board in 1933 and on the third board in 1937. His overall result for his homeland was impressive: 67% (+44 = 34 −13). At the unofficial Chess Olympiad in 1936 he reached second place with the Polish team. In 1934 in Budapest and 1936 in Helsinki , Frydman won international tournaments, in Helsinki even before Paul Keres , whom he defeated. In 1930 he played a match in Warsaw with Miguel Najdorf, a draw 2.5: 2.5 (+2 = 1 −2), in 1935, also in Warsaw, 2.5: 2.5 (+0 = 5 −0) against Rudolf Minstrel . In 1929 he won the first Polish team championship with the Warsaw team .

The outbreak of World War II during the 1939 Chess Olympiad in Buenos Aires persuaded Frydman and Miguel Najdorf to stay in Argentina. Frydman gave up professional chess and opened a chess café ( Rex ) in Buenos Aires . Here he made friends with the Polish exiled writer Witold Gombrowicz , who was an avid chess player and frequent guest in Frydman's café. Gombrowicz mentioned Frydman by name several times in his diary ( ISBN 3-596-13895-7 ). Frydman won international tournaments in Buenos Aires in 1940 and 1941. In 1955, FIDE awarded him the title of International Master for his successes in the 1930s . Frydman died in Buenos Aires in 1982.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paulino Frydman's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  2. ↑ Paulino Frydman's results at unofficial Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  3. ↑ Paulino Frydman's results at Polish team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  4. ↑ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 88.
personal data
SURNAME Frydman, Paulino
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frydman, Paulin; Frydman, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentinian chess master of Polish origin
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw
DATE OF DEATH 2nd February 1982
Place of death Buenos Aires