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H Steiner 
 
Herman Steiner
Number of games in database: 223
Years covered: 1907 to 1955
Overall record: +68 -87 =68 (45.7%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 King's Indian (14) 
    E76 E70 E60 E85 E69
 Orthodox Defense (12) 
    D64 D63 D52 D50 D51
 French Defense (12) 
    C13 C18 C14 C10 C11
 Queen's Pawn Game (9) 
    A46 D02 E10 E00
 Nimzo Indian (7) 
    E38 E48 E49 E30 E34
 Queen's Gambit Declined (7) 
    D31 D37 D39 D38 D30
With the Black pieces:
 Ruy Lopez (20) 
    C78 C88 C86 C61 C63
 Nimzo Indian (13) 
    E49 E23 E20 E36 E41
 Slav (10) 
    D10 D11 D14 D16 D12
 Queen's Pawn Game (9) 
    D04 D05 E00 A50 D02
 Queen's Gambit Declined (9) 
    D31 D30 D35 D37
 Orthodox Defense (8) 
    D51 D69 D62 D57 D50
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NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   H Steiner vs NN, 1945 1-0
   E Paoli vs H Steiner, 1951 0-1
   H Steiner vs Euwe, 1948 1/2-1/2
   L Steiner vs H Steiner, 1931 0-1

GAME COLLECTIONS: [what is this?]
   1946 US Open, Pittsburgh, PA by RonB52734
   Hastings 1945/46 by suenteus po 147
   Hollywood, 1952 by Resignation Trap

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HERMAN STEINER
(born Apr-15-1905, died Nov-25-1955) Hungary (citizen of United States of America)

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Herman Steiner was born on the 15th of April 1905 in Dunajska Streda, then a part of Hungary (and now a part of Slovakia). He settled in Los Angeles in 1932. Awarded the IM title in 1950 he moved to the USA at an early age, played on 4 US Olympiad teams and was US Champion in 1948. He was equal first with Daniel Yanofsky in the 1942 US Open Championship. He took 1st place in the 1946 US Open. In 1943, he won the California Open Championship. In 1945, he won the California State Championship. He was a leading chess organiser on the US West Coast and opened the Hollywood Chess Club. Regular visitors included Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Charles Boyer and Jose Ferrer.

 page 1 of 9; games 1-25 of 223  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves Year Event/LocaleOpening
1. H Steiner vs L Forgacs 1-038 1907 PragueC29 Vienna Gambit
2. Alekhine vs H Steiner 1-065 1924 New York 1of26B38 Sicilian, Accelerated Fianchetto, Maroczy Bind, 6.Be3
3. Capablanca vs H Steiner 1-037 1928 7, BudapestD67 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense, Bd3 line
4. H Steiner vs G Kroone  1-030 1928 OlympiadE16 Queen's Indian
5. E Steiner vs H Steiner 1-020 1928 BudapestC78 Ruy Lopez
6. H Steiner vs A Vajda  1-029 1928 BudapestA48 King's Indian
7. H Steiner vs A Blass  0-159 1928 OlympiadC01 French, Exchange
8. L Merenyi vs H Steiner  ½-½50 1928 BudapestC49 Four Knights
9. H Steiner vs Spielmann  ½-½29 1928 BudapestD15 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
10. M Henneberger vs H Steiner  ½-½41 1928 OlympiadD04 Queen's Pawn Game
11. Kmoch vs H Steiner  1-028 1928 BudapestD10 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
12. H Steiner vs Marshall  ½-½31 1928 BudapestD51 Queen's Gambit Declined
13. H Steiner vs A Vajda  ½-½44 1928 OlympiadE11 Bogo-Indian Defense
14. Z von Balla vs H Steiner  0-171 1928 BudapestA50 Queen's Pawn Game
15. H Steiner vs K Havasi  ½-½46 1928 BudapestD64 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox, Rubinstein Attack
16. Marshall vs H Steiner 1-032 1929 Bradley BeachE20 Nimzo-Indian
17. Alekhine vs H Steiner 1-025 1929 Bradley BeachD28 Queen's Gambit Accepted, Classical
18. H Steiner vs E Klein  ½-½31 1930 Gyor it, HUNA46 Queen's Pawn Game
19. H Steiner vs F Meller  1-029 1930 Gyor it, HUND63 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense
20. J Rejfir vs H Steiner  1-038 1930 Hamburg ol (Men)E36 Nimzo-Indian, Classical
21. Samisch vs H Steiner  ½-½73 1930 Berlin GERD51 Queen's Gambit Declined
22. B Hoenlinger vs H Steiner  1-046 1930 Gyor it, HUNE23 Nimzo-Indian, Spielmann
23. Szijjarto vs H Steiner  0-153 1930 Gyor it, HUNC68 Ruy Lopez, Exchange
24. K Helling vs H Steiner  1-0102 1930 Berlin GERE07 Catalan, Closed
25. H Steiner vs S Boros  1-048 1930 Gyor it, HUNA46 Queen's Pawn Game
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Kibitzer's Corner
Jun-01-04
Premium Chessgames Member
  Resignation Trap: For a good article about Herman Steiner, try this: http://www.chessdryad.com/articles/...

Also note that there is only one "n" in his first name.

Nov-09-04
Premium Chessgames Member
  iron maiden: <Resignation Trap> I think you're right; every spelling I've seen gives his first name just one "n".

Unlike most American GM's, he spent most of his time on the West Coast rather than in New York. His chess club in L.A. attracted a handful of Hollywood actors and directors, or so I've read.

Nov-14-04   kostich in time: Stiener was in fact quite the celebrity in Hollywood...Bogart and Boyer, among others, hung out at his club, and he organized the 1945 "Pan-American championship" in Hollywood. I once saw apicture of him introducing an amused Clark Gable to Max Euwe and Sammy Reshevsky. He also lost a game with "living pieces"-all Hollywood starlets-to Capablanca
Nov-14-04   kostich in time: Btw..there seems to be an error here..is chessbase really sure that those games from Lodz1938 were played by HERMAN Stiener? There were also an LAJOS Stiener, and an ANDRE Stiener(no relation to Herman)who were brothers-and strong European masters. In fact, Im almost certain it was Lajos who played at Lodz. According to what few sources Ive seen, Stiener didnt play outside the US between 1931 and 1945
Nov-15-04   sneaky pete: Herman Steiner moved to the USA before 1928. The 1938 Lodz games were played by Lajos Steiner, the 1928 Budapest games (attributed here to Herman) by Andreas (=Endre) Steiner, according to Feenstra Kuiper's "Hundert Jahre Schachturniere".
May-02-05   WTHarvey: Here are some diagrams of crucial positions in Hermann's games: http://www.wtharvey.com/stnr.html
May-02-05
Premium Chessgames Member
  cu8sfan: <WTHarvey> I just want to say thanks for the incredible amount of work you do every day for all the players of the day! You really seem like a scarab, assiduously rolling up what great players have emitted. (-:
May-02-05
Premium Chessgames Member
  Sneaky: Interesting photograph here featuring Charles Boyer, Herman Steiner, Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, 1945 - http://www2.polito.it/didattica/pol...
May-02-05   WTHarvey: <cu8sfan> Much obliged! It's gratifying to see how much following some of the 19th century chessplayers still have, the Olland and Judd puzzles drew a LOT of visitors over the last week. Too bad many of their games are missing.
Jan-10-06
Premium Chessgames Member
  Gypsy: <Dunajska Streda, then a part of Hungary (and now in the Czech republic)> Nowdays, Dunajska Streda is actually in Slovakia.
Apr-15-07   wolfmaster: I don't believe Steiner is GM.
Apr-16-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  Benzol: Thanks <Gypsy>. <wolfmaster> Steiner wasn't a GM.
Aug-22-07   savagerules: < Sneaky: Interesting photograph here featuring Charles Boyer, Herman Steiner, Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, 1945 > http://www2.polito.it/didattica/pol...

Hehe, in this picture chess doesn't seem too interesting to Steiner, esp. when Bacall is so close...

Aug-24-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  whiteshark: <savagerules <Hehe, in this picture ... esp. when Bacall is so close...>> Something’s up, quite certain.
Mar-26-08   Petrosianic: Steiner was an IM, but that was back in the days when IM meant something.

Amazing how few of his games are here. There's only one or two games from his 1948 win in the database. Another database has almost all of them, but without round numbers.

I've got the Chess Life & Review 1933-1975 set on order, hopefully I can get some more information on those pre-1950 US Championships other than just the crosstables.

Apr-15-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  brankat: A very colourful personality, Mr.H.Steiner.

It happens to be his Birthday today, would have been 103!

Jun-20-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  talisman: steiner and stein...neither on the drop down list.
Apr-15-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  wordfunph: Herman Steiner died on November 25, 1955 while playing in the California State Championship. He had just played a 62 move draw against William Addison and died two hours later. The State Tournament was cancelled by the wish of the other players as a gesture of sorrow.

Happy Birthday Herman Steiner!

Apr-15-09   WhiteRook48: Happy birthday
Jun-10-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  vonKrolock: <SBC> presents, in her <'Sarah's Chess Journal'>, a wonderfull account of the so called <Pan-American Tournament> from 1945 - the players, the movie-stars, many photos, trivia, curiosities etc http://sbchess.sinfree.net/Hollywoo...
Jun-10-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  vonKrolock: Also crosstable of the tournament won by Reshevsky ahead of Fine, Pilnik, Horowitz, Kashdan, Rossetto etc *** Brazilian participant Dr. Walter O. Cruz =9/10; Singer and actress Carmen Miranda was also there < SBC: 'In keeping with the predominant Pan-American note, <Carmen Miranda> was invited to draw the players' numbers for the pairing system. Her dynamic personality gives the routine ceremony a character all its own. No wonder Reuben Fine (left) grins so appreciatively!> ... on Steiner's remarcable activity in Hollywood :< 'Besides Bogart, Bacall and Boyer, other notable movie stars who attended Steiner's club or were otherwise influenced by Steiner included Charlie Chaplin, Lew Ayres, John Barrymore, Jose Ferrer, Louis Hayward, Fritz Feld, Rosemary Clooney, Katharine Hepburn, Dean Martin, Louis Jourdan, John Wayne, Franchot Tone, Basil Rathbone, J. Edward Bromberg, Helmut Dantine, Frank Morgan, Nigel Bruce, Myrna Loy, Linda Darnell, Maureen O'Sullivan, Mitzi Mayfair, Josef von Sternberg, Billy Wilder, Barbara Hale, Bill Williams, Carmen Miranda, Daun Kennedy, Jean Trent, Kathleen O'Malley and Roseanne Murray.'> Due to the importance of the event and the milieu, 'memorabilia' would be more in place than 'trivia' as I wrote above...
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