Menachem Oren
Israeli chess player (1902–1962)
Menachem Oren (born Mieczysław Chwojnik; Hebrew: מנחם אורן; 1903 – December 1962) was a Polish-born Israeli chess player and mathematician.
Chwojnik was the strongest Cracovian chess player in 1920s, a thrice winner of the Kraków championship (1919, 1925, 1926). He won the Nowy Dziennik tournament in Kraków in 1926.
He played in two Polish championships. In 1926, he tied for 8-9th places in Warsaw (first Polish championship). The event was won by Dawid Przepiórka. In 1927, he tied for 5-7th in Łódź. The event was won by Akiba Rubinstein. In 1928, he represented Poland on fourth board at the 2nd Chess Olympiad in The Hague (+4 –3 =4), and won the team bronze medal.
He left Kraków for Rivne, Volhynia (then Poland), in the 1930s.
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