Jacqueline Piatigorsky was born in the Rothschild banking clan and raised in a palace in Paris, but his silver spoon came with a ball and chain.
Rarely left the house and palace was dominated by a nurse insensitive. She felt invisible to their parents, who expected some "of its sensitivity, the daughter socially embarrassing if not for a good marriage.
"I have been a disappointment," he wrote, "a contraction, the child misunderstood."
It was also the highly competitive nature - and taken to be a child of rich and poor. After a failed first marriage, has found happiness as the wife of Gregor Piatigorsky novelist called sky and raised a family in Los Angeles.
Then, based on his 40 years, the childhood obsession became a series of impressive results: It became a U.S. chess champion - in the top five players in the country in 1950 and '60 - as an influential patron of the game, which Piatigorsky Cup tournament has attracted the greatest masters of any international competition in the United States in recent decades.
Later in life, became a sculptor of note, with his first wife, a show in 65 years. Later, he turned back to competitive tennis, winning the national senior tournaments in his 70 years. He continued two interests far beyond his 90 birthday.
"It was a very good fighter," said Laurence Lesser, president of the New England Conservatory of Music, Piatigorsky knew for 60 years. "He was always pushing herself and others around him to do more."
Piatigorsky was 100 years old when he died July 15 at home in Brentwood for a long time. The cause was complications of pneumonia, said his son, Jorem.
Born Jacqueline de Rothschild, 6 November 1911, was the second son of Baron Edouard de Rothschild and his wife, Germaine Alice Halphen.
He spent his childhood in the house of Talleyrand, now part of the United States of Embassycomplex in Paris and the Chateau de Ferrieres, a vast land of lakes, parks, a zoo and private furnished courtesy of Van Dyke and other old masters.
He had an older brother, Guy, and a younger sister, Bathsheba, which has failed for three years because they hated their nannies. Later, they share a nanny, which favored the smaller girl in Jacqueline.
As for his parents, Jacqueline saw the appointment. His quarters were so far from the nursery that "visits to shipments of them seemed," wrote Piatigorsky in 1988 in his memoir, "Jump in the Waves'.
Officials shy and a swarm, was in a perpetual state of confusion and fear, his mother took as a "loser."
At 18, his parents fled the world, marrying Robert Calmann-Levy, editor of the sons of Marcel Proust. The marriage soon took off, especially after learning of his money to support Jacqueline was her lover.
He was 24 when he met Gregor Piatigorsky, the cellist Russian Jew who was in Paris for a concert. They married in 1937. His daughter, Jephthah was born the same year.
Given the fear of the Nazi invasion, he left France in 1939 and settled in Elizabethtown, New York, where his son was born in 1940.
Piatigorsky was devoted to his children, but felt "a burning desire to make something of myself." She has taught to play the bassoon and joined the orchestra of fans, she also learned to fly a plane.
However, his "true love" was chess, taught by a nurse when she was 6 years old, and the recovery of peritonitis. A winter in New York, took pictures to post, including mail exchange with distant opponents in tournaments that have taken a year to complete.
He continued playing after the family moved to Philadelphia and, in 1949, in Los Angeles, where Gregor had accepted a teaching position at USC.
He has played with everyone from the gardener in the arts luminaries as Marcel Duchamp and Sergei Prokofiev.
He referred to the concerns of chess during the week of chess editor of the Los Angeles Times and met Herman Steiner, who became his teacher and his entry into their first meeting face to face tournament.
In 1957 he represented the United States at the Chess Olympiad for the first women in Emmen, the Netherlands, and earned a bronze medal. He finished second in the league of women in the United States in 1965.
Seeing the miserable conditions that require the most tournaments, sponsors, and became an organizer of chess events.
One of his first attempts: a 1961 game between the United States Samuel Reshevsky and Bobby Fischer championship - ended abruptly after Piatigorsky become a game to attend the closing concert of her husband.
Fischer launched an attack and withdrew from the competition, allowing his opponent will be declared the winner.
Another success was the first Piatigorsky Cup tournament, held in 1963 in a ballroom at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles Mirror.
His prize of $ 10,000 was the richest in the history of chess in this time and eight great masters, including the first Soviet world champion authorized to enter the United States, Tigran Petrosian. He and Paul Keres, another Soviet champion, tied for first place.
The second contest of the Piatigorsky Cup in 1966 and has 10 international masters, in 1300, the largest crowd I had ever seen a game of chess in this country.
Piatigorsky not only on the condition that the award of $ 20,000, but moves a housing development of innovative system for the analysis stage in the hall.
It also aims to carpet the ballroom at the Hotel Miramar in Santa Monica, where he played the tournament, observers accompanied the seats and controls the crowd.
Fischer, who had boycotted the tournament in 1963, performs well and this time ended in a close second to Boris Spassky.
Jack Peters, who wrote a chess column in the Times for 20 years, said last week that the 1966 competition "could be classified as the best tournament in the history of America" ??for the high level some of the greatest chess players of the game.
Piatigorsky third tournament held, but has left a large legacy. "The two Piatigorsky Cup tournaments, along with the increase of Bobby Fischer on the international stage, has done much to popularize chess in the United States as a legitimate sport, and intellectual activity," said Randall Hough, a chess master and former board member of the U.S. Chess Federation.
The benefactor also introduced thousands of young chess clubs sponsors chess in public schools in Southern California and the invitation of the U.S. Junior, who has produced many great teachers in the future.
He remained a strong contender until two months ago, when he became ill. "When he started a game that had five or six moves ahead," said Petrova Ianka, his assistant and fellow chess frequent. "It's been almost impossible to hit it to end."
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