# Milton Hanauer

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{{Short description|American chess player (1908–1988)}}
'''Milton Loeb Hanauer''' (5 August 1908 – 16 April 1988) was a public school principal, [chess master](/source/chess_master) and [Marshall Chess Club](/source/Marshall_Chess_Club) official.<ref>[http://www.davidhanauer.com/hanauer/misc/hanauer-listing.html Hanauer]</ref>

Born in [Harrison, New York](/source/Harrison%2C_New_York),<ref>{{citation
 | last=Gaige | first=Jeremy | author-link=Jeremy Gaige
 | year=1987 | title=Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography
 | publisher=McFarland
 | isbn=0-7864-2353-6
 | page=161}}</ref> He is best known for running the New York school competition that became known as the Hanauer League and for writing the book ''[Chess Made Simple](/source/Chess_Made_Simple)''.

His playing career is not well known, but he played on the silver medal winning US team in the [2nd Chess Olympiad](/source/2nd_Chess_Olympiad) at [The Hague](/source/The_Hague) 1928, he qualified for four [US Championships](/source/U.S._Chess_Championship), and he won games from [Reuben Fine](/source/Reuben_Fine) and [Isaac Kashdan](/source/Isaac_Kashdan).

==Further reading==
*Milton Hanauer, ''Chess Made Simple'', Made Simple Books / Doubleday & Company Inc (1957) {{ISBN|0-923891-26-9}}
*Andrew Soltis, ''Hanauer'', ''[Chess Life](/source/Chess_Life)'', August 2008

==References==
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==External links==
*{{Chessgames player|46187|Milton Loeb Hanauer}}
*{{OlimpBase player|7xldblpf|Milton Hanauer}} ([1928 Chess Olympiad](/source/1928_Chess_Olympiad))

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