Rudolf Spielmann
Rudolf Spielmann · Sports
Chess grandmaster
1883, Vienna, Austria-Hungary — 1942, Stockholm, Sweden
Austria · Germany · Sweden
Rudolf Spielmann is recognized among Jewish contributors to Sports — Chess grandmaster
Spielmann was a leading chess grandmaster of the early 20th century, celebrated for his bold sacrificial, romantic attacking style and author of the classic manual The Art of Sacrifice in Chess. A Jew from Vienna, he fled Nazi persecution and died in Stockholm in 1942 in wartime hardship.
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Chess grandmaster
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