Savielly Tartakower was awarded the title of International Grandmaster in its inaugural year, 1950.
19 Facts About Savielly Tartakower
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Savielly Tartakower was born on 21 February 1887 in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, to Austrian citizens of Jewish origin.
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Savielly Tartakower's parents were killed in a robbery in Rostov-on-Don in 1911.
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Savielly Tartakower graduated from the law faculties of universities in Geneva and Vienna.
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Savielly Tartakower met many notable masters of the time, among them Carl Schlechter, Geza Maroczy, Milan Vidmar, and Richard Reti.
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Savielly Tartakower went to the Russian front with the Viennese infantry house-regiment.
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Savielly Tartakower was the captain and trainer of the Polish chess team in six international tournaments, winning a gold medal for Poland at the Hamburg Olympiad in 1930.
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In France, Savielly Tartakower decided to become a professional chess player.
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Savielly Tartakower started cooperating with various chess magazines, and wrote several books and brochures on chess.
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Savielly Tartakower took part in many of the most important chess tournaments of his day.
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Savielly Tartakower won the Polish Chess Championship twice, at Warsaw 1935 and Jurata 1937.
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Savielly Tartakower arrived in France shortly before its collapse in 1940.
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Savielly Tartakower played in the first Interzonal tournament at Saltsjobaden 1948, but did not qualify for the Candidates tournament.
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FIDE instituted the title of International Grandmaster in 1950; Savielly Tartakower was in the first group of players to receive it.
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Savielly Tartakower died on 4 February 1956 in Paris, 18 days before his 69th birthday.
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Savielly Tartakower is regarded as one of the most notable chess personalities of his time.
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Dr Savielly Tartakower is far and away the most cultured and the wittiest of all the chess masters I have ever met.
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Savielly Tartakower's talk and thought are rather like a modernized blend of Baruch Spinoza and Voltaire; and with it all a dash of paradoxical originality that is essential Tartakower.
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Savielly Tartakower is alleged to be the inventor of the Orangutan Opening, 1.