Salo Flohr

✶November 21, 1908

†July 18, 1983

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About their life

Salomon Mikhailovich Flohr was a Czechoslovak and Soviet chess player and writer. He was among the first recipients of the title International Grandmaster from FIDE in 1950. Flohr dominated many tournaments of the pre-World War II years, and by the late 1930s was considered a contender for the World Championship. However, his patient, positional style was overtaken by the sharper, more tactical methods of the younger Soviet echelon after World War II.

Czech chess player, arbiter, theoretician, organiser and writer (1908–1983)

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Biography from the article Salo Flohr on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.