S. Lipschütz

Samuel Lipschutz ( born July 4, 1863 in Ungvár, Austria - Hungary ( now Ukraine), † November 30, 1905 in Hamburg) was an American chess master of Hungarian origin.

Life and work

Lipschutz emigrated at the beginning of the 1880s to New York in the United States, where he quickly made ​​its appearance as a strong chess player. In 1883 he represented the first time the New York club against a team from Philadelphia and defeated his opposition 2-0. In 1885 he won the tournament of the New York chess clubs and played a year later for the first time abroad in an international tournament in London, where his victories glückten about John Hermann Zukertort and George Henry Mackenzie. Lipschutz won in 1890 and 1892, the U.S. Championship. In 1897, he shared first place with Wilhelm Steinitz in a tournament in New York. In 1900 he won the championship of the Manhattan Chess Club in front of Frank James Marshall and Jackson Whipps Showalter.

Lipschutz contracted a lung disease that he was being treated in Hamburg in 1905. He died as a result of surgery.

His best historical Elo rating was 2742 in January 1901 that he was at that time the fourth best player in the world.