October 29 1993
The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, California, Friday, October 29, 1993
Harry Borochow
Harry Borochow, 95, of San Luis Obispo died Wednesday, Oct. 20, 1993, at a San Luis Obispo care center.
At his request no services will be held.
Mr. Borochow was born June 15, 1898, in Poltava Russia. He moved to New York when he was 3 years old. In 1918 he moved to Los Angeles and in 1984 to San Luis Obispo.
A World War I veteran, Mr. Borochow was California chess champion from 1930 to 1939. He also won the North American, Los Angeles and Pan American Chess Championships in other years and was a master chess player.
He is survived by two daughters Ruth Carp of San Luis Obispo and Charlotte Gillman of Los Angeles; six grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
October 30 1993
The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, California, Saturday, October 30, 1993
November 07 1993
The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, California, Sunday, November 07, 1993
BOROCHOW DIES
Harry Borochow one of the leading California masters for decades, died Oct. 20 at the age of 95. Borochow was California champion in the 1930s, a time when he also won national honors in postal chess. His favorite form of chess, though, was rapid transit, or blitz.
Borochow was born in Poltava (now part of Ukraine) in 1898, and moved to New York at the age of 3. His father wrote a checkers column for a New York newspaper. Harry moved to Los Angeles in 1918 and worked briefly in the film industry before becoming an insurance broker, a job he held for 65 years. He retired and moved to San Luis Obispo about 10 years ago.
In the great Pasadena tournament of 1932, Borochow played the reigning world champion, Alexander Alekhine, and defeated future stars Reuben Fine and Sammy Reshevsky. Locally, he often competed for the Steiner Chess Club, run by his perennial rival, Herman Steiner.
In recognition of his long and successful chess career, the U.S. Chess Federation awarded Borochow the title of Master Emeritus. California chess will be poorer without him.
