Emanuel Rubinstein (born 23 March 1897, date of death unknown) was a Polish

chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to dist ...

master. In the 1920s, Emanuel Rubinstein from Cracow was a collaborator of the ''

Wiener Schachzeitung ''Wiener Schachzeitung'' (or ''Wiener Schach-Zeitung'', "''Viennese Chess Bulletin''") was the name of several Austrian chess periodicals published in Vienna between 1855 and 1949. Original publications (1855 and 1887-1888) The original publicat ...

''. He took 4th at Cracow 1926 ( Mieczysław Chwojnik won). He played for Cracow (+3 =1 –1) in the 1st Polish Team Chess Championship at

Królewska Huta Królewska may refer to: Villages in Poland: * Bokinka Królewska, in Gmina Tuczna, within Biała Podlaska County, Lublin Voivodeship *Brzóza Królewska, in Gmina Leżajsk, within Leżajsk County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship * Brzeziny, Gmina Lubycz ...

1929, and in matches Cracow (Kraków) vs. Silesia (Śląsk) in 1932, 1937, and 1939. He tied for 2nd-4th in the Cracow City championship in 1938 (Henryk Scheier won), tied for 14-15th at Cracow 1938 (POL-ch, semi-final, Izaak Schächter won). In 1939, when

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broke out, he left Cracow for Lvov. In January/February 1941, he shared 4th with Schächter, behind Edward Gerstenfeld,

Izaak Appel Izaak (Isaak) Appel (1905–1941) was a Polish chess master. Biography In 1926, he took 12th place in the Warsaw (1st POL-ch) competition, which was won by Dawid Przepiórka. In 1929, he took 2nd place, behind Teodor Regedziński, in the C ...

, and

Henryk Friedman Henryk Friedman (Friedmann) (1903–1942) was a Polish chess master. He lived in Lviv (Lwów, Lemberg). In 1926–1934, Friedman won seven times in succession the Championship of Lviv but 1930, when he took 2nd place behind Stepan Popel. Friedman ...

, in the Lvov City championship.Tadeusz Wolsza, Arcymistrzowie, mistrzowie, amatorzy... Słownik biograficzny szachistów polskich, tom 5. Wydawnictwo DiG, Warszawa 2007, p. 41. After the war, he took 10th in the Kraków City championship in 1947 (Aleksander Ameisen won).

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