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Dr Maurice Rose
From Moldova (then part of Romania), and originally Mordhai Roizentzvit, under which name he played in the Scottish Championship 1950. He legally adopted the name Maurice Rose in December 1950 and was listed under this name in the later championsips of 1951, 1952, 1954 and 1955. He had a dental surgery practice at 337 Bath Street, Glasgow.
Dr Rose played for Glasgow CC in the Richardson Cup, and for the Glasgow Jewish Institute in the Glasgow League. He was a member of the Jewish CC that won the 1st Division of the Glasgow League in season 1952/53. In 1954 he was one those who opposed the Soviet Grandmaster Tolush, who gave a clock simultaneous display in Glasgow.
He was a member of the Scottish team at the Moscow Olympiad 1956, the full team being W.A. Fairhurst, M. Fallone, G. McGowan, A.A. Thomson, with reserves I. Middleton and Dr Rose.
The late M.D. Thornton, former secretary of the Scottish Chess Association, in a letter to Douglas Bryson in 2002, suggested that Dr Rose wanted the opportunity to visit the land of his birth, which was now part of the Soviet Union. Dr Rose offered to pay his own way to Moscow, and that of one other team member. He played only two games, both in the preliminary rounds, losing against Milic of Yugoslavia and Busek of Austria. Mr Thornton believed that Dr Rose left Scotland for Israel, perhaps before 1960.
Online references, as follows, indicate that Dr Rose was able to visit his mother prior to the Moscow 1956 Olympiad.
From 'The Bulletin'of Saturday, 27 August 1955, page 7.
A Glasgow dental surgeon, Dr Maurice Rose, visiting Russia with a group of British tourists, will meet his 72-year-old mother whom he has not seen for 25 years.
Soviet authorities said he could spend a week with her at her home in Kishinev, Moldavia. His visa would be extended to enable him to fly there to-morrow
Commenting on the decision, he said:- "Six months ago I could not have believed I would be in Moscow, never mind seeing my mother there."
Dr Rose, a well-known member of Glasgow's Jewish community, is in practice as a dental surgeon at 337 Bath Street, Glasgow. He is a chess expert and has represented Scotland in international matches.
A graduate of Milan University, he settled in Glasgow before the Second World War. His son is a doctor in Italy.
Additional information from the Glasgow Herald of 27 August, 1955, page 2.
Dr Rose was born in Kishinev when it was part of Roumania. It was ceded to Russia after the Second World War. He went to Italy to study medicine after the First World War, and came to Britain in 1939. He last saw his mother in Milan in 1930.
From 'The Bulletin'of Monday, 5 September 1955, page 3.
Dr Rose received special permission from the Soviet authorities to fly to Kishinev, where he stayed in his mother's home. He returned to Moscow by train.
Dr Rose also saw his younger sister Esther, her husband, and her young son.
His sister and her husband were given time off from work to spend with the family, and they accompanied Dr Rose on his return journey to Moscow.
Further information on Dr Rose would be welcomed.
Sources:
Edinburgh Gazette of 20 January 1948, 12 December 1950 and 14 August 1951.Alan McGowan
Historian, Chess Scotland