1989 ON THE TOP DR. MENACHEM OREN - Listing # 20338 - Preserving the past and the future

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1989 "ON THE TOP" DR. MENACHEM OREN

The first Chess Champion of Israel

By Shlomo Kandelshine

Kandelshine, Shlomo: "ON THE TOP. Dr. Menachem Oren (Oren Ba'Tsameret: Dr. Menachem Oren)". The fisrt Chess Champion of Israel (Aluf Ha'Sachmat Ha'Rishon shel Medinat Israel).

Tel Aviv, Reshafim Press, 1989. Original softback edition. 102 pages, with 13 photos on pages 33-40 (unnumbered, between pages 32-41) of glossy paper, 1 portrait drawing (page 7) and one drawing after page 102. 22,7 x 15,2 cm. In Hebrew.

The Hebrew Title, as well as the Publisher and the city, have been obtained from the excellent website on the Jewish Chess History in Palestine and Israel: http://jewishchesshistory.blogspot.com/

Very good to excellent: Very small corner crease. Previous owner has written the names of Oren's opponents in pencil in English next to each game.

Includes biography, results tables and 40 annotated games of the Israeli chessplayer and mathematician, Menachem Oren (1903-1962).

An interesting link about Oren: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menachem_Oren

WIKIPEDIA:

"Mieczysław (Mendel) Chwojnik, later known as Dr. Menachem Oren (Hebrew: מנחם אורן‎; 1903, Ruzhany, Russian Empire (now Belarus) – December 1962, Tel Aviv, Israel) was a notable chess master and mathematician.

Chwojnik was the strongest Cracovian chess player in 1920s; thrice winner of the Cracow championships (1919, 1925, 1926). He won the Nowy Dziennik tournament in Cracow in 1926.

He played in two Polish championships. In 1926, he tied for 8-9th in Warsaw (1st POL-ch). The event was won by Dawid Przepiórka. In 1927, he tied for 5-7th in Łódź (2nd POL-ch). The event was won by Akiba Rubinstein. In 1928, he represented Poland on fourth board at the 2nd Chess Olympiad in The Hague (+4 –3 =4), and won team bronze medal.

He left Cracow for Rivne, Volhynia (then Poland), in the 1930s. He won in the Rivne City championship in 1938. During World War II, he lived in the Soviet Union. After the war, he returned to Poland in 1945/46, and settled in Lower Silesia.

In 1949, Chwojnik emigrated, via Czechoslovakia and Austria, to Israel, where he had changed name to Menachem Oren. In 1951, he won the Israeli championship and the Tel Aviv City championship. In 1952, he won again the Tel Aviv City championship.

He played thrice for Israel in Chess Olympiads: at second board (+6 –4 =3) at Helsinki 1952, third board (+7 –2 =3) at Amsterdam 1954, and fourth board (+2 –2 =4) at Moscow 1956."

Another 2 interesting links:

http://jewishchesshistory.blogspot.com/2016/01/menachem-oren-1902-1962.html

http://jewishchesshistory.blogspot.com/2009/07/theory.html

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Item weight 214g

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Location:	Spain
Started:	2020-05-22 01:00:00
Ended:	2020-05-24 21:17:00
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