Background
He was born into a Jewish family in Kővágóörs, a town located on the shores of Lake Balaton.
He was born into a Jewish family in Kővágóörs, a town located on the shores of Lake Balaton.
He learned playing chess at the age of 15 during his years spent in a high school. In 1857, he departured to Vienna for following the courses of a medical school. Gold published his first chess compositions in the Budapest Vasárnapi Újság and the Wiener Illustrirte Zeitung in 1857.
He became a chess editor for the Der Osten in 1864, and later for other newspapers, among which the Allgemeine Sport-Zeitung.
In 1883, he published his collection of 200 Schachaufgaben (Vienna, 1883). He arrived in America on December 11, 1892, and immediately published two chess problems in the New York Sun.
Gold remained in New York for the rest of his life.