Zelman Kleinstein

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Zelman Kleinstein (born 1910) was a Palestine/Israeli chess master.

He played for Palestine (British Mandate) team in the 8th Chess Olympiad at fourth board (won 2, lost 6 and drew 2) at Buenos Aires 1939.[1] In September 1939, when World War II was broke out, Kleinstein, along with many other participants of that Olympiad (Najdorf, Stahlberg, Frydman, Feigins, Czerniak, Rauch, Winz, Eliskases, Michel, Engels, Becker, Reinhardt, Pelikan, Skalička, Luckis, Raud, Gromer, Sulik, Seitz, de Ronde, Sonja Graf, etc.) had decided to stay permanently in Argentina.[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ OlimpBase :: 8th Chess Olympiad, Buenos Aires 1939, individual results
  2. ^ http://ar.geocities.com/carloseadrake/AJEDREZ/Asilados_1939.htm


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