Israel Albert Horowitz

Israel Albert Horowitz (* November 15, 1907 in Brooklyn, New York City; † January 18, 1973 in New York City ) was an American chess player.

Horowitz was in the 1930s of the best players of the United States, so he later participated in three Chess Olympiads in 1931, 1935 and 1937 in the winning team and at the Chess Olympiad in 1950, where he total at 29 wins and 19 draws only three games lost. The U.S. Open he won in 1936, 1938 and 1943. U.S. Championship, he played in May 1941, where he lost a duel against Samuel Reshevsky winless with three defeats and thirteen draws. His best historical Elo rating of 2680 reached Horowitz in January 1943, that he was at this time at # 10 in the world rankings retroactively calculated.

During radio competition of the United States against the Soviet Union in 1945, he played on board 4 against Salo Flohr. Horowitz won one of his two matches and lost the other.

For his chess achievements, he was awarded the first award of the title International Master title. A year later, he was International Arbiter in chess.

As a chess author Horowitz was known as an editor of Chess Review and succession magazine Chess Life and Review, as well as several books. He also supervised over two decades a column in the New York Times.

There are six known published from 1926 to 1971 chess study by Horowitz, three of them together with Isaac Kashdan.

Works

  • Let's play chess (1950 )
  • Modern ideas in the chess openings Public (1953 )
  • How to Improve your chess (1954 )
  • Chess for beginners (1956 )
  • Chess traps, pitfalls, and swindles (1956 )
  • The Macmillan handbook of chess (1956 )
  • How to win in the chess endings (1957 )
  • Point count chess (1960 )
  • How to win in the chess openings Public (1961 )
  • Solitaire Chess (1962 )
  • Winning chess tactics illustrated (1963 )
  • The personality of chess (1963 )
  • Chess openings Public theory and practice (1964 )
  • The best in chess (1966 )
  • All about chess (1971 )
  • Chess games to remember (1972 )
  • The world chess championship (1973 )
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