Yosef Porath

Yosef Porath

Infobox chess player
playername = Yosef Porath


birthname = Heinz Josef Foerder
country = GER ISR
datebirth = birth date|1909|6|7
placebirth = Breslau Germany
datedeath =1996 (aged c. 87)
placedeath = Israel
title =
worldchampion =
womensworldchampion =
rating =
peakrating =

Yosef (Josef) Porath (Porat) ( _he. יוסף פורת; 7 June 1909, Breslau, Germanycitation
last=Whyld | first=Ken | author-link=Ken Whyld
year=1986
title=Chess: The Records
publisher=Guinness Books
isbn=0-85112-455-0
page=158] citation
last=Gaige | first=Jeremy | author-link=Jeremy Gaige
year=1987 | title=Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography
publisher=McFarland
isbn=0-7864-2353-6
page=337] – 1996, Israel) was a German-born and Israeli chess player.His German name was Heinz Josef Foerder, and he changed it to Yosef Porath in Israel.

He played twelve times in Chess Olympiads. In 1928, Foerder was a member of German team at the 2nd Olympiad in The Hague. [http://www.olimpbase.org/players/sw406ecd.html Porath, Yosef] at olimpbase.org]

He played several times in Silesian Chess Congress: shared 1st with Ludwig Schmitt at Gleiwitz 1927; took 2nd, behind Gottlieb Machate, at Reichenbach 1928; and won at Breslau 1930. [ [http://www.astercity.net/~vistula/fredvandervliet.htm Chess In Former German, Now Polish Territories - Fred Van Der Vliet ] ] He also won, ahead of Salo Flohr, at Bilina 1930. [http://www.anders.thulin.name/SUBJECTS/CHESS/CTCIndex.pdf Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's "Chess Tournament Crosstables", An Electronic Edition, Anders Thulin, Malmö, 2004-09-01] In 1933 he being a Jew lost his job, and moved to Riga. [ [http://www.tomaatnet.nl/~h.christen/SORotterdam/clubblad/januari%202006.pdf Inhoud ] ] In 1934 he emigrated to Palestine. [Litmanowicz, Władysław & Giżycki, Jerzy (1986, 1987). "Szachy od A do Z". Wydawnictwo Sport i Turystyka Warszawa. ISBN 83-217-2481-7 (1. A-M), ISBN 83-217-2745-x (2. N-Z)] Foerder represented the Palestine team at first board in the 6th Olympiad at Warsaw 1935, and at second board in the 8th Olympiad at Buenos Aires 1939. He won an individual gold medal (+9 −1 =4) in last pre-war Olympiad.

After World War II, Porath played for the Israeli team in nine Olympiads (every contest from 1952 to 1968).He won the Palestine Championship in 1937 and 1940 (after a play-off), and the Israeli Championship in 1953, 1957, 1959, and 1963.In 1963, he won in Ulan Bator (zonal tournament). [ [http://www3.sympatico.ca/g.giffen/zonals.htm Zonals in USSR, CIS and Asia ] ] In 1964, he took 21st in Amsterdam (interzonal). [ [http://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/6466$iix.htm World Chess Championship : 1964-66 cycle : 1964 Amsterdam Interzonal ] ]

Porath was awarded, along with Moshe Czerniak, the International Master (IM) title in 1952.

References

External links

*chessgames player|id=88297


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Нужно сделать НИР?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • PORATH, ISRAEL — (1886–1974), rabbi. Israel Porath (son of Aryeh Lieb and Sara Sharashevsky) was born in Jerusalem, the second of seven children. His grandfather Yosef and his grandmother Malka came to Palestine from Lithuania in 1837. Malka came from 15… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • List of chess players — This list of chess players depicts men and women who are primarily known as chess players and have an article on the English Wikipedia. Contents A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z …   Wikipedia

  • List of Israeli chess players — This is a complete list of Israeli chess title holders (active players only), as of October 2005. You are invited to create articles for individual chess players on this list or to update this list beyond October 2005. GrandmastersMen (33)*Boris… …   Wikipedia

  • Index of chess articles — Contents 1 Books 2 General articles 2.1 0–9 2.2 A …   Wikipedia

  • ARCHAEOLOGISTS — From the beginning of modern archaeology many Jews have contributed to the work in all aspects of the field. Classical Archaeology Classical archaeology developed mainly in the German speaking parts of Europe, and by the time Jews in these areas… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • List of Silesians — lists people who served Silesia and Silesian case:Nobel laureates* Paul Ehrlich (1908, medicine) * Gerhart Hauptmann (1912, literature) * Fritz Haber (1918, chemistry) * Friedrich Bergius (1931, chemistry) * Otto Stern (1943, physics) * Kurt… …   Wikipedia

  • List of Jews in sports — This list includes Jews who have had outstanding achievements in sports.The criteria is:a) 1 3 places winners at major international tournaments; b) for team sports, winning in preliminary competitions of finals at major international tournaments …   Wikipedia

  • 1996 in chess — Events in chess in 1996;Top playersFIDE top 10 by Elo rating January 1996#Vladimir Kramnik RUS 2775 #Garry Kasparov RUS 2775 #Anatoly Karpov RUS 2770 #Vassily Ivanchuk UKR 2735 #Gata Kamsky USA 2735 #Viswanathan Anand IND 2725 #Veselin Topalov… …   Wikipedia

  • HISTORICAL SURVEY: THE STATE AND ITS ANTECEDENTS (1880–2006) — Introduction It took the new Jewish nation about 70 years to emerge as the State of Israel. The immediate stimulus that initiated the modern return to Zion was the disappointment, in the last quarter of the 19th century, of the expectation that… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • Malingering of posttraumatic stress disorder — Malingering of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that may result from an individual experiencing a tragic, catastrophic or traumatic event. Because of large external incentives available to …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
… Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”