Boruch Israël Dyner was a Belgian–Israeli 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.

Born in Poland, he moved to Belgium. Dyner won thrice Belgian Chess Championship

Belgian Chess Championship

The Belgian Chess Championship is a championship organised yearly by the Fédération Royale Belge des Echecs . The winner of the championship is awarded the title: Chess Champion of Belgium....

 in 1932 (jointly with Victor Soultanbeieff

Victor Soultanbeieff

Victor Ivanovich Soultanbéieff was a Belgian chess master.-Life:...

), 1933 and 1935. He tied for 5-6th at Ostend 1936 (Erik Lundin

Erik Lundin

Erik Lundin a Swedish chess master.In 1928, he won in Oslo, took 5th in Helsingborg, tied for 2nd-3rd in Stockholm . In 1929, he took 2nd in Göteborg , and took 3rd in Västerås...

 won), tied for 4-7th at Brussels 1937 (BEL-ch, Alberic O'Kelly de Galway

Albéric O'Kelly de Galway

Albéric O'Kelly de Galway was a Belgian chess Grandmaster , and an International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster , most famous for being the third ICCF World Champion in correspondence chess between 1959 and 1962. He was also a chess writer...

 and Paul Devos

Paul Devos

Paul Devos was a Belgian chess master.Devos was seven times Belgian Champion . He took 2nd, behind Boruch Israel Dyner, at Brussels 1933 but won the title as a player of the Belgian nationality. In 1936 he won international BEL-ch, and took 3rd in national BEL-ch, both in Brussels...

 won), took 8th at Ostend 1937 (Reuben Fine

Reuben Fine

Reuben Fine was one of the strongest chess players in the world from the early 1930s through the 1940s, an International Grandmaster, psychologist, university professor, and author of many books on both chess and psychology.Fine won five medals in three chess Olympiads. Fine won the U.S...

, Henri Grob

Henri Grob

Henri Grob was a Swiss chess master.Grob represented Switzerland in Chess Olympiads.* In 1927, at fourth board in 1st Chess Olympiad in London ;...

 and Paul Keres

Paul Keres

Paul Keres , was an Estonian chess grandmaster, and a renowned chess writer. He was among the world's top players from the mid-1930s to the mid-1960s....

 won), and took 6th at Namen 1938 (BEL-ch, O'Kelly won).

After World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

, he settled in Israel where took 13th at Haifa / Tel Aviv 1958 (Samuel Reshevsky

Samuel Reshevsky

Samuel "Sammy" Herman Reshevsky was a famous chess prodigy and later a leading American chess Grandmaster...

won).

External links

• Boruch Israel Dyner at 365Chess.com