Final Resting Place
On February 23, 1954, Jacques Mieses died at the age of 88 in London. He found his final resting place at East Ham Jewish Cemetery in East London – far from his birthplace Leipzig, but in the city that had given him a new home after his flight from Nazi Germany in 1938.
The Final Years
After his emigration to England in 1938 with only 15 Reichsmarks in his pocket, Mieses continued playing undaunted. In 1946 he won the brilliancy prize at Hastings at age 80, in 1948 he finished a shared 3rd–5th in Stockholm at age 83.
In 1950 he became one of the 27 original FIDE Grandmasters – technically speaking the first British Grandmaster in history.
East Ham Jewish Cemetery
The Jewish cemetery in the London Borough of Newham (East Ham) was opened in 1919 and is managed by the United Synagogue Burial Society. Over 100 servicemen and women of both World Wars are also buried on the grounds.
Address: Marlow Road, East Ham, London E6 3QG, United Kingdom
Gravestone
Grave Inscription
JACQUES JAKOB MIESES
EMINENT CHESS PLAYER AND WRITER ON CHESS
BORN LEIPZIG 27TH FEBRUARY 1865
DIED LONDON 23RD FEBRUARY 1954
Original wording of the gravestone (with a Hebrew blessing beneath it).
His Legacy
"The last romantic of chess"
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