Born to a
Jewish family in Poland, he moved to Belgium and then to the United States. He was a champion of Baltimore from 1918 to 1921, won the Washington D.C. championship in 1918 ahead of
F. B. Walker and took 2nd, behind
Vladimir Sournin, in the D.C. championship in 1920, tied for 8th at Atlantic City 1921 (the Eighth
American Chess Congress;
Dawid Janowski won), tied for 4th at
Bradley Beach, New Jersey 1928 (
Abraham Kupchik won), tied for 3rd at Bradley Beach 1929 (
Alexander Alekhine won), took 8th at New York 1931 (
José Raúl Capablanca won), and took 10th at
Ventnor City, New Jersey 1944 (
Jacob Levin won). Turover settled in the Washington area and had a very successful lumber business. He married Bessie Levin and had three daughters: Sylvia, Naomi and Ruth. Turover became a director of the
American Chess Foundation. He is also known as a chess patron and philanthropist. He sponsored
Bobby Fischer's attendance in the 1962 Stockholm Interzonal. Throughout his life he offered cash prizes and other awards for
brilliancies in chess games. For instance, in 1930, Turover gave a 500-lire brilliancy prize at the tournament in
San Remo. Many years later, in 1973, Turover awarded
David Bronstein two
magnum bottles of the finest French champagne for a brilliancy in a game against
Ljubomir Ljubojević. In 1974 he established the annual World Brilliancy Prize; the first winner was
Michael Stean, who received $1,000 for his win against
Walter Browne at the
21st Chess Olympiad in
Nice. ==References==