Eduard Glass (born 1902 - died after 1980) was an Austrian chess

Chess

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 master.

He won at Vienna 1927, and shared 1st with Erich Eliskases

Erich Eliskases

Erich Gottlieb Eliskases was a chess Grandmaster of the 1930s and 1940s, who represented Austria, Germany and Argentina in international competition....

 at Innsbruck 1929 (Austrian Chess Championship

Austrian Chess Championship

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). He played several times in the Trebitsch Memorial in Vienna.

Glass represented Austria in the 5th Chess Olympiad

5th Chess Olympiad

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 at Folkestone 1933. In April 1935, he tied for 3rd-5th in Tel Aviv (the 2nd Maccabiah Games

1935 Maccabiah Games

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, Abram Blass

Abram Blass

Abram Blass was a Polish-Israeli chess master.Born in Łomża , he moved to the USA, staying from 1911 to 1924. After returning to Poland, he lived in Warsaw. In 1924/25, Blass tied for 3rd-5th in Warsaw . In 1926, he tied for 1st with Paulin Frydman in Warsaw...

 won). He tied for 8-10th at Budapest 1936 (Mieczysław Najdorf

Miguel Najdorf

Miguel Najdorf was a Polish-born Argentine chess grandmaster of Jewish origin, famous for his Najdorf Variation....

 and Lajos Steiner

Lajos Steiner

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 won). After Anschluss

Anschluss

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 in 1938, he moved to China, and living in the Shanghai Ghetto

Shanghai ghetto

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 survived the World War II

World War II

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.

After the war, he took 15th at Marianske Lazne 1959 (Lev Polugaevsky

Lev Polugaevsky

Lev Abramovich Polugaevsky was an International Grandmaster of chess and frequent contender for the world chess championship, although he never achieved that title...

won), and took 5th at Reggio Emilia 1960/61.

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