Abraham Kupchik
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Abraham Kupchik (born 25 March 1892 – died 26 November 1970) was an American chess master.
Abraham Kupchik was born into a Jewish family in Brest (then Russian Empire, later Poland, now Belarus). His family emigrated to the USA in 1903.
He was an accountant by profession.[1]
He won the Manhattan Chess Club Championship ten times outright and once shared. In 1915, he tied for third/fourth place with Oscar Chajes, behind José Raúl Capablanca and Frank James Marshall in New York. In 1916, he tied for 2nd-4th with Dawid Janowski and Borislav Kostić, behind Capablanca, in New York. In 1923, he was equal first with Marshall in Lake Hopatcong. In 1924, he lost a match to Efim Bogoljubow (+1 -3 =2) in New York. In 1925 he drew a match with Carlos Torre Repetto (+1 -1 =4) in New York. In 1926, he finished 2nd, behind Capablanca, in Lake Hopatcong.
Kupchik played for the US team in the sixth Chess Olympiad at Warsaw 1935. He scored (+6 -0 =8) on third board, and won individual bronze medal and team gold medal. He played on Board 9 in the 1945 USSR-USA radio match, losing ½-1½ to Vladimir Makogonov.
References
- ^ The Bobby Fischer I Knew And Other Stories, by Arnold Denker and Larry Parr, San Francisco 1995, Hypermodern Press.
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