Izidor Gross

Izidor Gross (25 June 1860 – 1942) was a Croatian chess master and hazzan.

Background

Gross was born into a Jewish family in Kislőd, Hungary on 25 June 1860. In 1891 he settled in Karlovac, Croatia where he served as a hazzan at Karlovac Synagogue. Apart from work at the Karlovac Jewish community, Gross was an avid chess master and notable writer about chess problems and the game itself. He is one of the founders of the Karlovac chess club in 1908 and Croatian chess federation in 1912. Gross published articles about chess problems in various domestic - foreign magazines and newspapers. In 1909 he published a book Šahovska abeceda (Chess alphabet). He composed direct mates, with some incursions in helpmates. Gross organized in Karlovac, in 1912, first international chess tournament in the Balkans. As a Jew Gross was arrested and deported to Jasenovac concentration camp where he was killed in 1942 during the Holocaust, together with his son Herman and daughter in law Julia.

Works

• Rochade und Notation bei Ibn Esra, Druck von T. Schatzky, Breslau (1900)
• Povijest šaha, Knjigotiskara M. Fogina, Karlovac (1912)
• Problemi Karlovačkog medunarodnog šahovskog turnira, Knjigotiskara Dragutina Hauptfelda, Karlovac (1913)
• Šahovska abeceda, Knjižara St. Kugli, Zagreb (1923)
• 150 izabranih problema, Knjigotiskara M. Fogina, Karlovac (1936)
• Humorističke crtice iz jevrejskog života, Knjigotiskara M. Fogina, Karlovac (1938)

References

Bibliography

1. Gross (surname)
2. List of prisoners of Jasenovac
3. The Holocaust in the Independent State of Croatia
4. Fischer random chess
5. Grasshopper Club Zürich
6. BSC Young Boys
7. List of FC Bayern Munich records and statistics
8. Isidor Mautner
9. Yugoslav Partisans
10. Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
11. Jewish councils in Hungary
12. List of people by city in Croatia
13. 1941
14. Jewish partisans
15. List of people from Croatia
16. List of Hungarian Nobel laureates
17. Education in Croatia