Isador Samuel Turover

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Isador (Isaac) Samuel Turover (July 1892 - October 1978) was an Belgian-American chess master.


Born in Belgium, he moved to the United States. He was a champion of Baltimore from 1918 to 1921, took 2nd, behind Vladimir Sournin, in the Washington D.C. championship in 1920,[1] tied for 8-9th at Atlantic City 1921 (the Eighth American Chess Congress, Dawid Janowski won), tied for 4-5th at Bradley Beach 1928 (Abraham Kupchik won),[2] tied for 3rd-4th at Bradley Beach 1929 (Alexander Alekhine won),[3] took 8th at New York 1931 (José Raúl Capablanca won),[4] and took 10th at Ventnor City 1944 (Jacob Levin won).[5]

Turover settled in the Washington area and had a very successful lumber business. He became a director of the American Chess Foundation.[6] He is also known as a chess patron and philanthropist. He sponsored Bobby Fischer attendance in the 1962 Stockholm Interzonal.[7] Throughout his life he offered cash prizes for brilliancies in chess games. For instance in 1930 Turover gave 500 lire brilliancy prize at the tournament in San Remo.[8] In 1974 he established the annual World Brilliancy Prize, the first winner was Michael Stean who received $1,000 for his win against Walter Browne at the 21st Chess Olympiad in Nice.[9]

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Captain Vladimir Sournin: A Russian Chess Player's Exploits in America" by Olimpiu G. Urcan
  2. ^ 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
  3. ^ bradley
  4. ^ The Frank James Marshall Electronic Archive and Museum: Tournament and Match Record
  5. ^ 1944
  6. ^ Turover, Isador S. - Chess.com
  7. ^ The Skittles Room
  8. ^ http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/7378/history.txt
  9. ^ The Skittles Room
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