Oscar Blum

Oscar Blum (1886 https://www.ecforum.org.uk/viewtopic.php?t=8782 – ?) was a Lithuanian–French chess master. He was pushed off Lenin's 1917 train by Lenin himself (https://www.ecforum.org.uk/viewtopic.php?t=8782)(This incident is mentioned in Ben Kingsley's Lenin movie, and in James Wollrab: Russian Winter p. 206 https://books.google.no/books?id=AEyqStOE-yIC&pg=PA206&lpg=PA206&dq=oscar+blum+lenin&source=bl&ots=NNb64YBptY&sig=KZVn0aqZEtAlp7-G9Ps5WEruips&hl=no&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiRreCK97vZAhWDGCwKHbBVAyUQ6AEISTAE#v=onepage&q=oscar%20blum%20lenin&f=false) He won, ahead of Nicolas Rossolimo and Vitaly Halberstadt, in the 8th Paris City Chess Championship in 1932.[1] Dr Oscar Blum played at Folkestone 1933. He participated not in the 5th Chess Olympiad but in the General Congress, finishing second, half a point behind Eugene Znosko-Borovsky.[2][3]

References

  1. ↑ Champ Paris 1932
  2. ↑ Chess Notes by Edward Winter
  3. ↑ NED-ch08 The Hague/Leiden 1933 Archived August 7, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
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