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1972,second (+6=81 afler Polusaye,skyi and Las
Palbas i973, liist equal with Petrosyan.
Stein\slyle. oftencalledromandc, enbraced an
iatuitive approach to @obinalivc play. and hh
games were Nide ly apprcc iated by t he chess public.
(Ar Yerevan 1969 the orsanizeB a*arded hin a
special prize foringenuity.) Hn grearestanbition
v,( i. h..ome a .ANDTDATF an aim that was
thwarted ihree times by thc nadowest of nareins.
He pt.yed in threc interzonal loumaments. At
bolh stockholm 1962 (+9=9 4, equal sixth) and
Amslcrdam 1964(+12=9 2, nfth) he would have
h..nme z Crndidare bnt for a FrDr rule. subse
quenily rescinded. that the nunber oi Soviel
Candidatcs should not exced rhree Ai Souse
196? he shared sixth place. thc tie-break goinB
against him afier an inconclusive play-otl touma
nent. During the 1960s his style matured and his
!a.ti.alcxuberance *as reined- so that in 19?0he
sas ranked anong the world's lirsl ten. Widely
expecred lo becone a candidate at the tuo de
Ja.eiro interzonal 1913. he looked toNard erpeclantly:
Youwiubesurprised...myNholclilcNill
take anothercourse. . . then I'll rcallystartlopiay
che$.'But a fes wccks before the start oiplay he
collapsed and died i. a Moscow holel.
R. D. Kee.e, Leonid Steh M6tet af Atta.k
(1976) contains biography and 79 games.
SlciFsnyslov Team Chanpionship Mosow l9?2
lc4Nl6 2Nc3e6 3NAM 4e4Bb7 5Qe2Bb4 6e5
Ns3 7d4d6 Sa3Bxcl+ 9bxc3Ne7 t0h4Nd7 llh5
Bx$ 12 QxB dxes 13 h6 srh6 14 Bxh6 exd4 1j Bgl
Rs8 16 Lrh7 Nl5 17 Bxd4 .s l3 s4 cxd4 19 sx15 .5
20 Qd5 Rt3 21 cxd4 Rcs 2zRdlQc7 23 BB2 R33
24 Ob7 Rxc,l 2i dxe5 Qrc5+ 26 Kf1 Qb5 27 Ksl Oc6
h7%r.'&H
29 Rh3 Rg6 30 fxg! Rtrft 3lBc6Re3 lz BxdT+ I(e7
3il Rr5 rxs6 3.1Rd7+ Xr6 15 Bd3 Ra3 Black tsilrs.
STEINER, ENDRE or ANDREAS (1901 -44),
Hungarian plaler. His besr resulls in tournlnent
play sere a ecood prizc aicr rcsna and aheadol
sprEr-MANN. CRaNFELD aDd RE! at Trenaianske
Teplice 1928, first pnze (+,1=1) aheadofELNusrs
and CANAL at Ke6*enat 1913, and sixth place
(+9:4-4) at Kcmeri 1937. He achieled excellenl
results in five Olympiads: 1927, 198, 1931, i933,
and 1937: be nade fie best score (+6=5 2) at
STEINER 329
board rour in 1927 and the best (+10=3 3) at
board two in 1928. His father Bemrr (1874 1944)
and his brother Lajos srEtNER were also well
k.oM playe6. (see tLLrc^L hs,noN (1)-)
E St.in( Apschcnc.k Th. Hague Olympiad l92a
leae5 2Nnl5 rNxeiQl6 4d4d6 5Nc4fxe4 6Nc3
Qg6 ?Ne3NI6 3Ned5Nxd5 9Nrd5Qf l0Bc4.6 1l
Ne3 d5 l2Bbl Be6 1300Bd6 l4tuQc7 l5c4Bxr4
16 cxd5 Bxc3+ 17 BxeS cxd5 13Qh5+96 19Qe5Rs3
%AW, "N %
frw '/& ?g&a
znRf6Bc3 2lQid5Rg7 22Ral1Bl5 z3R1xf5gxl5 24
Oe6+ Re? and white mares in 1*o (25 RI3+).
STEINER. HERMAN (190!55), Ameri@n
profcssional playe!. organizer, and columnist. at
one lime knownasH. Stoner. I.ternadonal Master
(19s0). He *as bom in Dunajsl, slreda Gheo in
Hungary) and his laoily took him to Ncw York
when he was 16. In Europe for the Olympiads of
1928, 1930, a.d 1931, he prolonged his visih,
travelling ro his ho6e lown. then in Czechoslovakia,
on one o.casion, md playing in a tew
rournamenlsr in one olrhese, Berlin 19,?1, he Non
frrst pnze (+3=1 1) ahe.d of sAMGcH and 1..
srrrNER. Otherwise his besl intcrnalional tournament
result was at Pasadena 1932 when he shared
thnd prize wirh DAKE and REssEvs( after
ArEsN! and rossDAN ahead ol ErNE. Steiner
shar.d lhe USOpen Chanpionsnipin 1942,sonit
oul.iAhr in 1946. and son rhe US Chanpionship,
the goal ol his aobition - in 1948. His ldst
Olympiad was ar Dubrovnik 1950 Nhen he captained
and playcd in the !ictorious Ameri.an tcam.
He died sudde.ly lron a heart altack while being
eranided by hn docbr.
Srcineas work ior lhe causc of Amcrican chess
on the West Coast sas ol g.eate. sig.ificance than
his playing achievements. He noved from New
Yorklo Houysoodin 1932,workedceasele$lyIor
thc promotion ofchcss. and was editor ofa ches
column in the ,or,4trAel€s Imcs iron 1932 until
his death. Anong hn oany acdvities he founded
rhe Hollylvood Ches Group whi.hwas patroniz€d
by screen aclors, company that suited his 'picturesque
and lriendly personalily.
STEINER, LAJOS (1903 75), Hungarian champion
1931 and 1935,Intcrnational Master (1950),
hrorherof Fndre.lF'NFr Tr?ined,s, me.h,ni.5l