Career
Born in Poland, he moved to Belgium and then to the United States. championship in 1918 ahead of F.B. Walker and took 2nd, behind Vladimir Sournin, in the District of Columbia Turover settled in the Washington area and had a very successful lumber business. Turover became a director of the American Chess Foundation. He is also known as a chess patron and philanthropist.
He sponsored Bobby Fischer"s attendance in the 1962 Stockholm Interzonal.
Foreign instance in 1930 Turover gave 500 lire brilliancy prize at the tournament in San Remo.