- Jacques Mieses
Jacques Mieses (
February 27 ,1865 , inLeipzig –February 23 , 1954 inLondon ) was a German-bornJew ishchess player and writer.He moved to
England in the 1930s to escape Nazi persecution and became the first British grandmaster in 1950. He was a dangerous attacker with a number of brilliant victories to his credit, e.g. againstFrank Marshall (Monte Carlo 1903) [http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1094553] .He also organized the master tournament of
San Sebastián 1911 and insisted that all the masters' expenses were paid. [ cite book | title=Chess Lists | author=Andy Soltis | date=2002 (2nd edition) | publisher=McFarland | url=http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review348.pdf | accessdate=2008-06-09 ] This was the first international tournament ofJosé Raúl Capablanca , who surprised everyone by winning.Mieses wrote many tournament reports, but his style was regarded as fairly dry, in contrast with his wittiness in person.
He often used the
Scandinavian Defense , and greatly developed its theory in the early 1900s.1.d3 is
Mieses Opening References
*citation | author=Hooper, David and
Kenneth Whyld | title=The Oxford Companion To Chess |edition=second | publisher=Oxford University | year=1996 | id=ISBN 0-19-280049-3External links
*chessgames player|id=21823
* [http://www.mieses.info/ Jacques Mieses - Information, Pictures and Games] (in German)
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