- Gersz Salwe
Gersz (Hersz, Georg, George, Henryk Jerzy) Salwe (Salve) (
12 December 1862 ,Warsaw –15 December 1920 ,Łódź ) was a Polishchess player.Biography
Salwe was born into a
Jew ish family in Warsaw (thenRussian Empire ). [ [http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/jews.html Chess and Jews by Edward Winter ] ]In 1897, Salwe took 2nd at Łódź championship. In 1898, he won a Łódź champioship. In 1903, he took 4th at Kiev (All-Russian Masters' Tournament, 3rd RUS-ch,
Mikhail Chigorin won). Salwe reached a peak of his career in 1906, when he won at Sankt Petersburg (All-Russian Masters' Tournament, 4th RUS-ch), ahead ofBenjamin Blumenfeld andAkiba Rubinstein . In 1906, he took 4th at Łódź ("Quadrangular"). In 1906, he took 3rd at Łódź ("Triangular"). In 1906, he tied for 6-7th at Nuremberg (15th DSB Congress,Frank James Marshall won). In 1906, he played in famous 2nd tournament at Ostend, where he took 3rd (I stage), 2nd (II stage), 2nd-3rd (III stage), 4th (IV stage), and tied for 5-6th (final V stage). The event was won byCarl Schlechter .In 1907, he took 4th at Łódź ("Quadrangular"). In 1907, he took 8th at Ostend. In 1907, he took 9th at Carlsbad (Rubinstein won). In 1907/08, he tied for 3rd-4th with
Eugene Znosko-Borovsky , behind Rubinstein andSimon Alapin , at Łódź (All-Russian Masters' Tournament, 5th RUS-ch). In 1908, he took 13th at Vienna. In 1908, he tied for 7-9th at Prague. In 1908, he took 2nd, behind Marshall, at Düsseldorf (16th DSB Congress). In 1908, he took 3rd, behind Rubinstein and Marshall, at Łódź ("Triangular"). In 1908, he took 2nd, behind Alapin, at Warsaw. In 1909, he tied for 8-10th at Sankt Petersburg. The event was won byEmanuel Lasker and Rubinstein. In 1909, he took 5th at Vilna (Wilno, Vilnius). The event (All-Russian Masters' Tournament, 6th RUS-ch) was won by Rubinstein. [http://www.anders.thulin.name/SUBJECTS/CHESS/CTCIndex.pdfName Index to Jeremy Gaige's Chess Tournament Crosstables, An Electronic Edition, Anders Thulin, Malmö, 2004-09-01]In 1910, he tied for 11-14th at Hamburg (17th DSB Congress, Schlechter won). In 1911, he tied for 17-18th at Carlsbad (
Richard Teichmann won). In 1911, he tied for 2nd-3rd withAlexander Flamberg , behind Rubinstein, at Warsaw. In 1912, he took 3rd at Warsaw. In 1912, he tied for 9-11th at Bad Pistyan (Pieštany). In 1912, he took 10th at Vilna (All-Russian Masters' Tournament, 7th RUS-ch, Rubinstein won). In 1912, he took 3rd, behindEfim Bogoljubow and Flamberg, at Łódź. In 1913, he won at Łódź. In 1914, he won at Łódź. In 1913/14, he tied for 10-11th at Sankt Petersburg (All-Russian Masters' Tournament, 8th RUS-ch,Alexander Alekhine andAron Nimzowitsch won). [ [http://www.alekhinechess.com/english/tables/masters1913.html Chess Tournaments: Russian masters 1913/14 ] ] DuringWorld War I , he took 2nd in 1915, won in 1916, and took 2nd, behind Rubinstein, in 1917 at Łódź.Salwe played several matches in Łódź. In 1903, he drew a match against Rubinstein (+5 –5 =0). In 1904, he lost to Rubinstein (+3 –5 +2). In 1904, he drew with Chigorin (+1 –1 =0). In 1905, he won a match against
Jacques Mieses (+2 –1 =0). In 1906, he lost a match (RUS-ch) against Chigorin (+5 –7 =4). In 1908, he lost to Rubinstein (+1 –3 =4). In 1909, he won a match againstGersz Rotlewi (+8 –5 =3). In 1910, he lost to Rotlewi (+1 –3 =6). In 1913, he lost toOldřich Duras (+0 –2 =2). In 1913, he lost to Bogoljubow (+3 –5 =2). [Litmanowicz, Władysław & Giżycki, Jerzy (1986, 1987). Szachy od A do Z. Wydawnictwo Sport i Turystyka Warszawa. ISBN 83-217-2481-7 (1. A-M), ISBN 83-217-2745-x (2. N-Z).]References
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