Jacques Mieses

Jacques Mieses
Jacques Mieses, 1900
Personal information
BornJacob Mieses
(1865-02-27)27 February 1865
Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony
Died23 February 1954(1954-02-23) (aged 88)
London, United Kingdom
Chess career
Country
  • Germany
  • United Kingdom
TitleGrandmaster (1950)

Jacques Mieses (born Jacob Mieses; 27 February 1865 – 23 February 1954) was a German chess player. Mieses, who was Jewish, fled the Nazi regime in 1938 and later became a British citizen.p258 He was one of the inaugural recipients of the title International Grandmaster from FIDE in 1950.

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