Eduard Glass

{{short description|Austrian chess player}} '''Eduard (Esra) Glass''' (born 1902 - died after 1980) was an Austrian chess master.

He won at Vienna 1927,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.anders.thulin.name/SUBJECTS/CHESS/CTCIndex.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2010-07-27 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070704030849/http://www.anders.thulin.name/SUBJECTS/CHESS/CTCIndex.pdf |archivedate=2007-07-04 }} Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's Chess Tournament Crosstables, An Electronic Edition, Anders Thulin, Malmö, 2004-09-01</ref> and shared 1st with Erich Eliskases at Innsbruck 1929 (Austrian Chess Championship).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://schach.wienerzeitung.at/Welt.aspx?id=177 |title=Wiener Zeitungs-Schachergebnisserver schach.wienerzeitung.at - Homepage |website=schach.wienerzeitung.at |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706095818/http://schach.wienerzeitung.at/Welt.aspx?id=177 |archive-date=2011-07-06}} </ref> He played several times in the Trebitsch Memorial in Vienna.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/index.htm |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2007-02-21 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070221010007/http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/index.htm |archivedate=2007-02-21 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.endgame.nl/trebitsch.htm |title=21 Leopold Trebitsch Memorial |accessdate=2008-12-06 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081206025115/http://www.endgame.nl/trebitsch.htm |archivedate=2008-12-06 }}</ref>

Glass represented Austria in the 5th Chess Olympiad at Folkestone, 1933.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.olimpbase.org/1933/1933id01.html|title = OlimpBase :: 5th Chess Olympiad, Folkestone 1933, individual results}}</ref> In April 1935, he tied for third to fifth place in Tel Aviv (the 2nd Maccabiah Games, Abram Blass won).<ref>Wolsza, Tadeusz (2007), ''Arcymistrzowie, mistrzowie, amatorzy. Słownik biograficzny szachistów polskich, tom 5''. Wydawnictwo DiG, Warszawa. {{ISBN|83-7181-495-X}}</ref> He tied for eighth to tenth place at Budapest 1936 (Mieczysław Najdorf and Lajos Steiner won).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/tables7.htm |title=All-Union YM 1936 |accessdate=2008-02-16 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091208191715/http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/tables7.htm |archivedate=2009-12-08 }}</ref> After the Anschluss in 1938, he was imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp where he won the camp chess tournament once ahead of Georg Klaus.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ballo.de/zettel_182.htm |title=Zettel 182 |access-date=2019-01-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110208204026/http://www.ballo.de/zettel_182.htm |archive-date=2011-02-08 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Later, he moved to China and survived World War II while living in the Shanghai Ghetto.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.chess.at/geschichte/gesheumo.htm#g27|title = Eröffnung}}</ref>

After the war, Glass participated in the first Israeli Chess Championship in 1951.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://jewishchesshistory.blogspot.com/2018/07/aloni-glass-combination.html|title=Jewish Chess History: Aloni - Glass combination|date=14 July 2018}}</ref> There, he scored eight points in thirteen games to finish third. The winner, Menachem Oren, achieved nine points<ref>:ru:Орен, Менахем</ref>{{Circular reference|date=May 2019}}. Later, Glass placed fifteenth at Marianske Lazne 1959 (Lev Polugaevsky won),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chessmetrics.com |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2011-10-20 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060414132700/http://www.chessmetrics.com/ |archivedate=2006-04-14 }}</ref> and took fifth at Reggio Emilia in 1960-61.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ippogrifoscacchi.it/tdc_storia/data/1960-61.htm|title=03 Reggio Emilia Capodanno 1960|access-date=2008-12-06|archive-date=2021-06-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210620041446/http://www.ippogrifoscacchi.it/tdc_storia/data/1960-61.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>

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