Eduard Glass

Eduard (Esra) Glass (born 1902 - died after 1980) was an Austrian chess master.

He won at Vienna 1927,[1] and shared 1st with Erich Eliskases at Innsbruck 1929 (Austrian Chess Championship).[2] He played several times in the Trebitsch Memorial in Vienna.[3][4]

Glass represented Austria in the 5th Chess Olympiad at Folkstone 1933.[5] In April 1935, he tied for 3rd-5th in Tel Aviv (the 2nd Maccabiah Games, Abram Blass won).[6] He tied for 8-10th at Budapest 1936 (Mieczysław Najdorf and Lajos Steiner won).[7] After Anschluss in 1938, he became imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp where he won the camp chess tournament once ahead of Georg Klaus.[8] Later he moved to China, and living in the Shanghai Ghetto survived World War II.[9]

After the war, Glass participated in the first Israeli Chess Championship in 1951.[10] There he collected 8 points in 13 games, finishing on rank 3. The winner, Menachem Oren, achieved 9 points[11]. Later Glass took 15th at Marianske Lazne 1959 (Lev Polugaevsky won),[12] and took 5th at Reggio Emilia 1960/61.[13]