Mieses , now past the age of 70 , settled in England in 1938 following Kristallnacht in Germany , and arrived with just 15 Reichsmarks in his pocket . He continued to actively play chess and participated in his last major event at Hastings 1946 , when he was 80 years old and half a century after Hastings 1895 . The octogenarian Mieses only won a single game against a 22-year-old opponent , but secured the brilliancy prize for a game-winning attack combination . Three years later , at 84 , he defeated the 86-year-old Dutch master Dirk van Foreest , afterwards commenting " Youth has been victorious " and also gave a series of exhibition matches in western Europe . He died in February 1954 , a few days before his 89th birthday
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Jacques Mieses