Deaths
- 1939 - Katarina Beskow-Froeken died in Sweden. Women's World Sub-Champion in 1927.
- 1939 - Iosif Januschpolski (Yanushpolsky) died.
- 2 February 1939 - Bernhard Gregory died in Berlin, Germany.
- 8 February 1939 - Salomon Langleben died in Warsaw, Poland.
- 11 February 1939 - Jan Kvíčala died in Czecho-Slovakia.
- 28 May 1939 - Hans Fahrni died in Ostermundingen, Switzerland. 1st to play 100 simultaneously, 1911.
- 7 August 1939 - Paul Krüger died in Germany.
- August 1939 - Alexei Alekhine killed by NKVD in the Soviet Union.
- September 1939 - Jan Kleczyński, Jr. died of a heart attack during a bombing of Warsaw (World War II).
- September 1939 - Karol Piltz died during the siege of Warsaw.
- after 17 September 1939 - Kalikst Morawski died during the Soviet occupation of Lvov.
- 26 September 1939 - Ottó Bláthy died in Budapest. Created longest problem, 290 moves.
- 4 October 1939 - Ludvig Collijn died in Stockholm. President of the Swedish Chess Association from 1917 to 1939.
Read more about this topic: 1939 In Chess
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)
“Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)