Isador Samuel Turover

Isador (Isaac) Samuel Turover (Sochaczew, 8 July 1892 – 16 October 1978) was a Belgian-American chess master.

Born 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 8-9th at Atlantic City 1921 (the Eighth American Chess Congress, Dawid Janowski won), tied for 4-5th at Bradley Beach 1928 (Abraham Kupchik won), tied for 3rd-4th at Bradley Beach 1929 (Alexander Alekhine won), took 8th at New York 1931 (José Raúl Capablanca won), and took 10th at Ventnor City 1944 (Jacob Levin won).