U.S. champion he captained the 1950 team. In the historic 1945 USA–USSR radio match between teams from the US and the USSR, Steiner was the only U.S. player to achieve a plus score. Although the American team including Reuben Fine, Samuel Reshevsky, Arnold Denker, and Isaac Kashdan, was badly beaten, Steiner scored 1½–½ against Igor Bondarevsky. Steiner was very active as a player in West Coast tournaments, winning the only two California Open tournaments he entered in 1954 and 1955, and winning the California State Championship in 1953 and 1954. He was defending his State Championship in Los Angeles in 1955, when after finishing his fifth-round game (a 62-move draw against William Addison) he felt unwell and his afternoon game was postponed. About 2 hours later around 9:30 pm, Steiner died practically instantaneously of a massive coronary occlusion while being attended by a physician. By agreement of the players, the 1955 California State Championship tournament was canceled. Tournament record References External links Hungarian chess players American chess players Jewish chess players Austro-Hungarian emigrants to the United States Hungarian Jews Chess Olympiad competitors American chess writers Chess International Masters American people of Hungarian-Jewish descent People from Dunajská Streda 1905 births 1955 deaths 20th-century American non-fiction writers 20th-century American male writers American male non-fiction writers 20th-century chess players People from New York City