# Emil Zinner

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'''Emil Zinner''' (23 August 1909 in [Brno](/source/Brno) – 8 July 1942 in [Majdanek](/source/Majdanek)) was a [Jewish-Czech](/source/Jews_in_Czechoslovakia) [chess](/source/chess) master.

==Biography==
He won a tournament at Králicky 1929; tied for 5–6th at Bilina 1930 ([Heinz Foerder](/source/Yosef_Porat) won);<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.anders.thulin.name/SUBJECTS/CHESS/CTCIndex.pdf |title=Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's Chess Tournament Crosstables, An Electronic Edition |first=Anders |last=Thulin |location=Malmö |date=2004-09-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070704030849/http://www.anders.thulin.name/SUBJECTS/CHESS/CTCIndex.pdf |archive-date=2007-07-04 }}</ref> tied for 8–10th at Brno 1931 ([Salo Flohr](/source/Salo_Flohr) won),<ref>{{cite web |title=Nice 1931 |work=Roger Paige's Chess Site |url=http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/tables2.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070807014625/http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/tables2.htm |archive-date=August 7, 2007 }}</ref> tied for 2nd-4th at Moravska Ostrava 1933 ([Ernst Grünfeld](/source/Ernst_Gr%C3%BCnfeld) won); tied for 4–6th at Bad Liebenwerda 1934 (Flohr won); tied for 5–7th at Luhačovice 1935 ([Karel Opočenský](/source/Karel_Opo%C4%8Densk%C3%BD) won); tied for 2nd-3rd, behind [Karl Gilg](/source/Karl_Gilg) at Konstantinsbad 1935; took 15th at Poděbrady 1936 (Flohr won), and took 2nd, behind [Paul Keres](/source/Paul_Keres), at Prague 1937.<ref>{{cite web |title=1937 |work=Roger Paige's Chess Site |url=http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/tables8.htm |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070221005929/http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/tables8.htm |archivedate=2007-02-21 }}</ref>

Zinner played for Czechoslovakia in [3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad](/source/3rd_unofficial_Chess_Olympiad) at Munich 1936, and won an individual bronze medal at third board (+14 –5 =1) there. He also played in [7th Chess Olympiad](/source/7th_Chess_Olympiad) at Stockholm 1937 at third board (+9 –4 =4).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.olimpbase.org/players/hn7lt51c.html |title=Zinner, Emil |work=OlimpBase  |access-date=26 January 2023 }}</ref>

He was murdered in the Nazi [Majdanek concentration camp](/source/Majdanek_concentration_camp) in 1942.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://members.inode.at/ihff/IHFF_Kerry_Grossmutter.htm |title=Die väterlichen Vorfahren von Senator John Kerry |work=Instituts für Historische Familienforschung |first=Felix |last=Gundacker |date=7 October 2004 |access-date=26 January 2023 |lang=de |trans-title=The Paternal Ancestors of Senator John Kerry }}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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