Mark Stolberg

Mark Moiseevich Stolberg (born 1922, Rostov-on-Don - died 1942, 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 disappeared on 16 May 1942 in the battle of Malaya Zemlya (lit. "Minor Land"), a part of Novorossiysk on Russia's Black Sea coast against German troops.

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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