Mark Stolberg
Mark Moiseevich Stolberg (1922 in Rostov-on-Don – 16 May 1942 in Novorossiysk) was a Russian chess master.
Stolberg won the Rostov-on-Don City championship in 1938. The next year he took second in a Soviet master candidates tournament.[1] In 1940, Stolberg shared first 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, Stolberg was in fourth place in Rostov-on-Don (the 13th USSR-ch semi-final), when the German attack on the Soviet Union interrupted the event.[4]
Stolberg 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.
His Brother Vladimir Stolberg also served in the Soviet army, fortunately he made it back.
References
- ^ Karpov, Anatoly, ed. (1990). "Шахматы: энциклопедический словарь". Шахматы: Энциклопедический словарь (in Russian). Moscow: Советская энциклопедия. p. 388. ISBN 978-5-85270-005-6. LCCN 97214322. OCLC 23533106.
- ^ Tadeusz Wolsza, Arcymistrzowie, mistrzowie, amatorzy... Słownik biograficzny szachistów polskich, tom 5. Wydawnictwo DiG, Warszawa 2007, ISBN 978-83-7181-495-2
- ^ Roger Paige Chess Site :: 1940 Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Roger Paige Chess Site :: 1941 Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
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