Emil Zinner

Emil Zinner (23 August 1909, in Brno – 8 July 1942, in Majdanek) was a Jewish-Czech chess master.

Biography

He won a tournament at Králicky 1929; tied for 5-6th at Bilina 1930 (Heinz Foerder won);[1] tied for 8-10th at Brno 1931 (Salo Flohr won),[2] tied for 2nd-4th at Moravska Ostrava 1933 (Ernst Grünfeld won); tied for 4-6th at Bad Liebenwerda 1934 (Flohr won); tied for 5-7th at Luhačovice 1935 (Karel Opočenský won); tied for 2nd-3rd, behind Karl Gilg at Konstantinsbad 1935; took 15th at Poděbrady 1936 (Flohr won), and took 2nd, behind Paul Keres, at Prague 1937.[3]

Zinner played for Czechoslovakia in 3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad at Munich 1936, and won an individual bronze medal at third board (+14 –5 =1) there. He also played in 7th Chess Olympiad at Stockholm 1937 at third board (+9 –4 =4).[4]

He was murdered in the Nazi Majdanek concentration camp in 1942.[5]

References
  1. Thulin, Anders (1 September 2004). "Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's Chess Tournament Crosstables, An Electronic Edition" (PDF). Malmö. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 July 2007.
  2. "Nice 1931". Roger Paige's Chess Site. Archived from the original on 7 August 2007.
  3. "1937". Roger Paige's Chess Site. Archived from the original on 21 February 2007.
  4. "Zinner, Emil". OlimpBase. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
  5. Gundacker, Felix (7 October 2004). "Die väterlichen Vorfahren von Senator John Kerry" [The Paternal Ancestors of Senator John Kerry]. Instituts für Historische Familienforschung (in German). Retrieved 26 January 2023.


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