Leon Stolzenberg

Chess Player

1895 – 1974

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Who was Leon Stolzenberg?

Leon Stolzenberg was an American chess player. Stolzenberg had been a medic in the hospital at Tarnopol in World War I. Entering the United States after the war, he became one of the leading national and international correspondence chess players. He was several times Michigan state chess champion, and won the U.S. Open Chess Championship in 1926 and 1928.

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Born
Oct 18, 1895
Nationality
  • United States of America
Died
Oct 25, 1974

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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