Myroslav Turiansky was a Ukrainian chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 master.

He won the championship of the Shakhovyi Konyk (Chess Knight) Club in Lviv in 1928, and tied for 1st-2nd with Stepan Popel

Stepan Popel

Stepan Popel was a multiple chess champion of Lviv, Paris and eventually, of the Ukrainians in North America .-Biography:Stepan Popel was the nephew of an early master, Ignatz von Popiel , and took...

 in the Championship of Western Ukraine at Lviv 1943.

Joining the westward exodus in 1944, Turiansky wound up in Vienna

Vienna

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, where in the years 1946-1947 he became one of the best players of the Austrian capital and champion of the Hietzing Chess Club there. He took 16th at Vienna 1947 (Schlechter Memorial, László Szabó

László Szabó (chess player)

László Szabó was a prominent Hungarian Grandmaster of chess.Born in Budapest, he burst onto the international chess scene in 1935, at the unusually young age of 18...

 won).

In 1948 he emigrated to New York City, where he became active in the Marshall Chess Club, and in the 1949-1950 season placed second in its club championship, behind Larry Evans

Larry Evans

For the football player of the same name, see Larry Evans .Larry Melvyn Evans was an American chess grandmaster, author, and journalist. He won or shared the U.S. Chess Championship five times and the U.S. Open Chess Championship four times...

. Here again his desire to serve organized Ukrainian chess came to the fore. He moved to Chicago in 1950, and won twice the Chicago city championship (1953 and 1954). He finished 10th in the U.S. Open Chess Championship

U.S. Open Chess Championship

The U.S. Open Championship is an open national chess championship that has been held in the United States annually since 1900.-History:Through 1938, the tournaments were organized by the Western Chess Association and its successor, the American Chess Federation .The United States Chess Federation ...

 at Milwaukee 1953 (Donald Byrne

Donald Byrne

Donald Byrne was one of the USA's strongest chess players during the 1950s and 1960s.Born in New York City, he won the U.S. Open Chess Championship in 1953, was awarded the International Master title by FIDE in 1962, and played for or captained five U.S. Chess Olympiad teams between 1962 and 1972...

won).

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