Meir Rauch

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Meir Rauch was an Israeli chess master.


In August-September 1939, he played for Palestine team in the 8th Chess Olympiad at first reserve board (won 4, lost 2 and drawn 7) in Buenos Aires. When WW II was broke out, Rauch, along with many other participants of that Olympiad (Najdorf, Stahlberg, Frydman, Feigins, Czerniak, Kleinstein, Winz, Eliskases, Michel, Engels, Becker, Reinhardt, Pelikan, Skalička, Luckis, Raud, Gromer, Sulik, Seitz, de Ronde, Sonja Graf, etc.) had decided to stay permanently in Argentina.

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