Mieses Jacques (27.02.1865 – 23.02.1954)

An English player born in Leipzig, and then settled in Great Britain in 1938 to avoid Nazi persecution of the Jews.

Later in 1950, he became the first English chess player who was awarded the International Grandmaster title. In 1951 he received the title of International Arbiter.

Best results: was the third at Breslau in 1889 and in Vienna in 1896, shared the seventh-eighth place in Paris in 1900, came in sixth at Monte Carlo in 1901, and fourth in Hanover in 1902, performed third in Stockholm in 1906 and Ostend in 1907, behind Ossip Bernstein and Akiba Rubinstein, was the fourth in Goteborg in 1920. He showed his brilliant play and was the winner of the 1907 Vienna Trebitsch Memorial in front of Oldrich Duras, Geza Maroczy, and Karl Schlechter, and the 1923 Liverpool contests.

He participated between 1887 and 1948 in more than 60 tournaments, played more than 20 matches and won six of them. He defeated Taubengaus in 1895, Caro G. in 1897, Leonhardt in 1905, and Schlehger in 1909. He drew matches with Walbrodt in 1894 and David Janowski in 1895. He was beaten in matches by Emanuel Lasker, Siegbert Tarrasch, Akiba Rubinstein, Frank Marshall and Richard Teichman.

As a member of the German chess team, he took part in the World Chess Olympiad in 1927.
Being a chess writer, he was an editor of chess columns, commented on chess events and even published several books: the eighth edition of the Handbuch in 1921 and Instructive Positions from Master Chess in 1938. Also, The Chess Pilot, Manual of the End Game.

His play is characterized by chess romanticism and the beauty of the game, and he won 12 brilliancy prizes. He played sharp chess often using risky openings, such as the Vienna Gambit, Danish Gambit, and Center Counter-Gambit.