Education
He studied music at the Frankfurt Conservatoire and at Heidelberg, and became a concert pianist.
He studied music at the Frankfurt Conservatoire and at Heidelberg, and became a concert pianist.
He emigrated to England as a young man and became a successful piano teacher. Amongst his pupils was Edna Iles. He settled in London and also gained a reputation as a strong chess player.
After the war, chess writing took up more and more of his time.
Perhaps his most famous work was 500 Master Games of Chess (1952), written in collaboration with Savielly Tartakower. Foreign some years, du Mont was chess columnist of The Field and of the Manchester Guardian.
Between 1940 and 1949 he was general editor of British Chess Magazine.