Henri Grob

Henry Grob ( born June 4, 1904 in Braunau ( Switzerland ); † 5 July 1974 in Zurich ) was a Swiss chess master and painter.

Life

Grob, who was a professional painter and bookseller, won in 1939 and 1951, the chess championship of Switzerland. He represented his native country at the Chess Olympiads 1927 in London, in 1935 in Warsaw and in 1952 in Helsinki.

Until the early 1950s, he participated in numerous international tournaments. His biggest success was the shared first place ( with Paul Keres and Reuben Fine ) in Ostend 1937.

Grob played a large number of competitions against known chess master: In 1933, he defeated Salo Flohr in Arosa with 1,5:4,5 ( 1, -4, = 1 ), 1934 he came to Zurich Jacques Lousy 4.5:1, 5 ( 4, -1, = 1 ), 1937 ( in Zurich ), he played in a draw ( 1, -1, = 2) against the Belgians George Koltanowski. In Zurich he was defeated in 1947 Max Euwe with 0,5:5,5 ( 0, -5, = 1 ), 1948 Miguel Najdorf with 1:5 ( 1, -5, = 0 ), 1949 Efim Bogolyubov with 1, 5:4-5 ( 1, -4, = 1) and in 1950 the Dutchman Lodewijk Prins with 1,5:4,5 ( 1, -4, = 1). In 1962 he won a seniors tournament in Zurich together with Boris Kostic.

1950 FIDE awarded him the title of International Master.

For notoriety in Switzerland, he came by his chess column correspondence chess center in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, which he headed since 1941. He played a total of 3614 long-distance games against his readers.

Grob wrote a series of chess books: Attack g2 - g4 ( Zurich 1942), Learn to play chess ( Zurich 1945), the openings in the game of chess, using the battle plan ( Zurich 1946), playoffs ( Zurich 1946), hundreds of selected remote parts ( Zurich 1968).

After the rough opening 1 g2 - g4 ( Grob's attack) is named. This does not apply as fully and comes in the master practice hardly ever.

Swell

• Otto Borik, Joachim Petzold include: chess Meyers Lexicon. Mannheim 1993, p 114, ISBN 3-411-08811-7