Salomon Flohr
Salomon Flohr · Sports
Czechoslovak chess grandmaster, leading world-title candidate of the 1930s
1908, Horodenka, Austria-Hungary — 1983, Moscow, Soviet Union
Czechoslovakia · Soviet Union
Salomon Flohr is recognized among Jewish contributors to Sports — Czechoslovak chess grandmaster, leading world-title candidate of the 1930s
Known as Salo Flohr, he was a Czechoslovak grandmaster who rose to be one of the world's strongest players in the 1930s and a designated challenger for the world title. Orphaned as a Jewish child amid the violence of World War I in Galicia, he later fled the Nazi occupation to the Soviet Union, where he settled. His Jewish origin is well documented.
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews among the 64 strongest chess players (Warriors of the Mind, 1989)
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Czechoslovak chess grandmaster, leading world-title candidate of the 1930s
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews among the 64 strongest chess players (Warriors of the Mind, 1989)
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