Izaak Grynfeld

Izaak (Izak) Grynfeld (born 1920) is a Polish–Israeli chess master.

In 1938, he tied for 3rd-4th in Kraków (POL-ch elim; Izak Schaechter won). After World War II, he played six-times in Polish championships (1946–1953). His best achievement was a 3rd-4th place at Sopot 1946 (Bogdan Śliwa won).[1]

In tournaments, he tied for 9-10th at Warsaw 1947 (Svetozar Gligorić won),[2] took 18th at Szczawno Zdrój (Salzbrunn) 1950 (Paul Keres won),[3] and tied for 15-16th at Międzyzdroje 1952 (Zdravko Milev and Ion Bălănel won).[4]

Grynfeld was born in Łódź, and represented Poland in the 10th Chess Olympiad at Helsinki 1952, winning the silver medal at second reserve board (+5 –1 =4) there.[5] He also played for Poland in friendly matches: POL–CSR at Katowice 1949, POL–HUN at Warsaw 1949, and POL–HUN–GDR at Görlitz 1952.[6] He later emigrated to Israel.

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-02-27. Retrieved 2013-02-23.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. Roger Paige's Chess Site - 1947 Archived 2009-12-08 at the Wayback Machine
  3. "polbase - Szczawno Zdrój 1950". Archived from the original on 2013-10-22. Retrieved 2010-01-20.
  4. polbase - Międzyzdroje 1952
  5. http://www.olimpbase.org/players/vbdfhhhf.html
  6. http://www.olimpbase.org/ Friendly matches
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