Menachem Oren

Menachem Oren (born Mieczysław Chwojnik; Hebrew: מנחם אורן; 1903 – December 1962)[1][2] was a Polish-born Israeli chess player and mathematician.

Menachem Oren
Born
Mieczysław Chwojnik

1903
Ruzhany, Russian Empire
DiedDecember 1962
Tel Aviv, Israel
CitizenshipPoland
Israel
Occupationchess player

Chwojnik was the strongest Cracovian chess player in 1920s, a thrice winner of the Cracow championship (1919, 1925, 1926). He won the Nowy Dziennik tournament in Cracow in 1926.[3]

He played in two Polish championships. In 1926, he tied for 8-9th places in Warsaw (first Polish championship). The event was won by Dawid Przepiórka. In 1927, he tied for 5-7th in Łódź. The event was won by Akiba Rubinstein.[4] In 1928, he represented Poland on fourth board at the 2nd Chess Olympiad in The Hague (+4 –3 =4), and won the team bronze medal.

He left Cracow for Rivne, Volhynia (then Poland), in the 1930s. He won in the Rivne City championship in 1938. During World War II, he lived in the Soviet Union. After the war, he returned to Poland in 1945/46, and settled in Lower Silesia.

In 1949, Chwojnik emigrated, via Czechoslovakia and Austria, to Israel, where he had changed name to Menachem Oren. In 1951, he won the Israeli championship and the Tel Aviv City championship. In 1952, he won again the Tel Aviv City championship.[5]

He played thrice for Israel in Chess Olympiads: on board two (+6 –4 =3) at Helsinki 1952, board three(+7 –2 =3) at Amsterdam 1954, and board four (+2 –2 =4) at Moscow 1956.[6]

References
  1. Gaige, Jeremy (1987), Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography, McFarland, p. 312, ISBN 0-7864-2353-6
  2. Gaige records the birth city as uncertain, possibly Roznay, and the birth year of 1903 as most probable, but notes that British Chess Magazine, 1963, pp. 74–76, gives 1901 instead. According to the National Library of Israel authorities database, he was born January 16, 1902 and died December 1, 1962.
  3. Litmanowicz, Władysław; Giżycki, Jerzy. Szachy od A do Z (in Polish). Warsaw: Sport i Turystyka. 1986, 1987, ISBN 83-217-2481-7 (1. A-M), ISBN 83-217-2745-X (2. N-Z)
  4. "Szachowe Mistrzostwa Polski - Polish Chess Championships". Archived from the original on 2002-06-08. Retrieved 2008-04-08.
  5. Wolsza, Tadeusz (2007). Arcymistrzowie, mistrzowie, amatorzy. Słownik biograficzny szachistów polskich, tom 5 (in Polish). Warsaw: Wydawnictwo DiG. ISBN 83-7181-495-X
  6. Menachem Oren team chess record at Olimpbase.org
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