Moshe Aba Blass (born 1896, Łomża, Poland - 1971, Tel-Aviv, Israel) was a Polish-Israeli chess master.
Born in Łomża (then Russian Empire), he moved to the US, staying from 1911 to 1924. After returning to Poland, he lived in Warsaw. In 1924/25, Blass tied for 3rd-5th in Warsaw ( Stanisław Kohn won). In 1926, he tied for 1st with Paulin Frydman in Warsaw. In 1926, he tied for 8-9th with Mieczysław Chwojnik at the 1st Polish Chess Championship in Warsaw. The event was won by Dawid Przepiórka. In 1926/27, he took 5th in Warsaw (Kohn and Leon Kremer won). In 1927, he took 8th at the 2nd POL-ch in Łódź. The event was won by Akiba Rubinstein. In 1928, he won, ahead of Frydman and Kazimierz Makarczyk, in Warsaw.
Blass played for Poland on the reserve board (+4 –3 =5) in the 2nd Chess Olympiad at The Hague 1928. He won team bronze medal there. [1] He, along with other members of the Warsaw team ( Rafał Feinmesser, Frydman, Stanisław Kohn, Leon Kremer, Karol Piltz and Henryk Pogorieły), won the gold medal in the 1st Polish Team Championship at Królewska Huta (Königshütte) 1929; took 2nd, behind Kremer, at Warsaw 1929 and took 8th at Warsaw 1930 (P. Frydman won). [2]
In 1931, he immigrated to Palestine where he won the chess competition at the 2nd Maccabiah Games and the Palestine Championship). The next year, he took 2nd in the Tel Aviv City-ch and tied for 2nd-3rd, behind Moshe Czerniak, in Tel Aviv (Palestine-ch). [3]He is buried in Bat Yam Cemetery.
See also
References
- ^ OlimpBase :: 2nd Chess Olympiad, The Hague 1928, individual results
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External links
- Abram Blass player profile and games at Chessgames.com
- 1896 births
- 1971 deaths
- People from Łomża
- People from Łomża Governorate
- Polish emigrants to Mandatory Palestine
- Jews from Mandatory Palestine
- Israeli people of Polish-Jewish descent
- Polish chess players
- Israeli chess players
- Jewish chess players
- Chess Olympiad competitors
- Maccabiah Games gold medalists for Poland
- Competitors at the 1935 Maccabiah Games
- Sportspeople from Podlaskie Voivodeship
- Maccabiah Games medalists in chess
- 20th-century chess players
- Expatriates from the Russian Empire in the United States