Samuel Gold

Samuel Goldenberg ( born July 2, 1835 in Kővágóörs, Hungary, † November 9, 1920 in New York) was a Hungarian physician, journalist, and chess composer.

He was born into a Jewish family in the village of Kövágóörs on the shores of Lake Balaton and learned to play chess at age 15, when he went on to higher education. In 1857 he moved to Vienna to attend a medical school courses.

Gold published his first chess compositions in Budapest Vasárnapi Újság and the Wiener Zeitung magazine in 1857. Beginning in 1864, he was chess editor of The East, and later in other newspapers, including the Universal Sports Newspaper. In 1883 he published his collection of 200 chess problems (Vienna, 1883).

Since 1887 he was the first and only chess teacher of Carl Schlechter in Vienna.

He met on December 11, 1892 in America, and immediately published two chess problems in the New York Sun. Gold remained all his life in New York. He died in the Bronx at the age of 85 years, and was buried in the presence of a small group of Hungarian relatives and friends on November 11, 1920.