| Dec-13-04 | | cade: An interesting player, he seems to enjoy creating bizzare positions on the chessboard rather than winning. A shame he wasnt more into playing seriously since he is able to create some very good combinations in some of his games. |
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| Jul-03-07 | | whiteshark: Isaac Mazel (1911-1943)
Source: http://www.chesscafe.com/text/skitt...
footnote XXXV |
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| Oct-19-08 | | Mibelz: Izaak Mazel, born in Minsk, Belarus, in 1911, won Moscow City championship in 1941/42, and died in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, in 1943. |
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Oct-13-09
 | | xenophon: was he in 'internal exile' by any chance? |
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| Mar-26-10 | | UUDD: He wasn't.
From a Soviet military order:
'Lieutenant MAZEL Isaak Yakovlevich - platoon commander, stayed for treatment at Tashkent Military Hospital 340. Died of disease 31.3.1945. 1911 y. Wife RUBTSOVA Olga Nikolayevna [Address]' |
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Jun-04-14
 | | GrahamClayton: <Nibelz>...won Moscow City championship in 1941/42 <Nibelz>,
Mazel defeated some good players in that tournament - Panov, Petrov, Alatortsev, Yudovich and Zubarev, amongst others.
Mazel was serving in the Red Army on the front near Moscow, and was given permission by his commander to come back into the city to play his games. |
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| Oct-22-14 | | Ke2: I think Edelman - Mazel is pretty notable. |
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| Sep-12-15 | | zanzibar: There is a fantastic photo of of a very healthy young Mazel, from the 1938 All-Lenin ch here: http://www.e3e5.com/article.php?id=... |
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Sep-13-15
 | | MissScarlett: He'd escaped my dragnet. |
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| Sep-14-15 | | zanzibar: <MS> There is no escape... |
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| Aug-08-22 | | wrap99: WW2 was a bad time for chess players. I wonder how many masters died from starvation, disease and murder during WW2. The nazis flat out sent chess masters, mathematicians and other academics to concentration camps with apparently rare exceptions for hard-to-believe reasons. Typhus is not an unusual cause of death during the war, caused by crowding and I think malnutrition can make it one more vulnerable. Many were starving for years in USSR during the war. |
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Aug-08-22
 | | perfidious: <wrap99>, Article 58 of the RSFSR penal code was a wonderful catchall to rid the Soviet regime of anyone they regarded as undesirable. Solzhenitsyn, Petrov and Bronstein's father, amongst many others, fell victim to these laws. |
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| Aug-08-22 | | wrap99: <perfidious> I suspect it was WW2 side-effects, supply chain destruction (maybe too modern a term but that's what happens in wars) that caused Mazel's death. As I mentioned, sending accomplished people to concentration where best case they were subject to incredible privations not to mention what happened after liberation, was just sickening. I wonder if there is a book about the scientists/artists/sportspeople whose lives were obliterated by the nazis -- if not, there ought to be. |
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Aug-08-22
| | perfidious: <wrap99>, of course being amongst the intelligentsia (which also often meant one was Jewish, as Mazel was) was a guarantee to be sent away. Make no mistake: the wholesale roundup, and often murder, of those who did not fit in with the regime's plans was indeed vile, and a continuation of the practice begun after the Bolshevik takeover. |
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| Aug-08-22 | | Noah Parking: Much the same thing here. |
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| Aug-10-22 | | wrap99: <perfidious> I don't want to get too far afield from chess, but the commies, while they did some terrible things, were not racist or genocidal. I am not a fan of torturing poets and even admit that Stalin was in fact an antisemite, but communism is certainly at its heart antiracist. |
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| Aug-10-22 | | Little Caezarz: Communism has no heart. It murders its own people. Try to find overcrowded prisons in a communist country. If one, it is likely a forced labor camp. |
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| Aug-10-22 | | Little Caezarz: After this post last night, LC was placed back on <RESTRICTED KIBITZING>. What is wrong with this post? Some disagree, but the post is not foul. Were the other posters above put on <RESTRICTED KIBITZING>? |
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