Mark Stolberg

Mark Moiseevich Stolberg (born 1922, Rostov-on-Don - died 1943, Novorossiysk) was a Russian chess master.

Stolberg won the Rostov-on-Don City championship in 1938. The next year he took 2nd in a Soviet master candidates tournament.^[1] In 1940, he shared 1st with Eduard Gerstenfeld in Kiev (the 12th USSR-ch semi-final),^[2] and tied for 13-16th in Moscow (the 12th USSR Chess Championship won jointly by Andor Lilienthal and Igor Bondarevsky).^[3] In June 1941, he was in 4th place in Rostov-on-Don (the 13th USSR-ch semi-final), when the German attack on the Soviet Union interrupted the event.^[4]

He entered the Soviet Army at the end of 1940, and died in combat against German troops in the battle of Malaya Zemlya (lit. "Minor Land"), a part of Novorossiysk on Russia's Black Sea coast, in 1943.

References

1. ^ Шахматы : Энциклопедический словарь. Москва : Советская энциклопедия, 1990. С. 388. ISBN 5-85270-005-3.
2. ^ Tadeusz Wolsza, Arcymistrzowie, mistrzowie, amatorzy... Słownik biograficzny szachistów polskich, tom 5. Wydawnictwo DiG, Warszawa 2007, ISBN 83-7181-495-X
3. ^ Roger Paige Chess Site :: 1940
4. ^ Roger Paige Chess Site :: 1941

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Name	Stolberg, Mark
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Date of birth	1922
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Date of death	1943
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