Miguel Najdorf
Miguel Najdorf · Sports
Polish-Argentine chess grandmaster; the Najdorf Sicilian bears his name
1910, Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire — 1997, Málaga, Spain
Poland · Argentina
Miguel Najdorf is recognized among Jewish contributors to Sports — Polish-Argentine chess grandmaster; the Najdorf Sicilian bears his name
Miguel (Mendel) Najdorf was a Polish-Argentine grandmaster and one of the world's top players in the 1940s and 1950s; the Najdorf Variation of the Sicilian Defence bears his name and remains among the most analyzed openings in chess. Stranded in Argentina when World War II broke out, he lost his entire Jewish family in the Holocaust and set blindfold-simultaneous world records partly hoping surviving relatives would hear of him. He was born into a Jewish family in Warsaw.
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews among the 64 strongest chess players (Warriors of the Mind, 1989)
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Polish-Argentine chess grandmaster; the Najdorf Sicilian bears his name
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews among the 64 strongest chess players (Warriors of the Mind, 1989)
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