- Alexander Flamberg
Alexander Flamberg (1880,
Warsaw –24 January 1926 ,Warsaw ) was a Polishchess master.Biography
Alexander Davidovich Flamberg born in
Warsaw (thenRussian Empire ), spent his early years in England, where he learnt to play chess. After return to Warsaw, he became one of the strongest Polish chess players. In 1900, he took 2nd, behindSalomon Langleben , in Warsaw. He won the Warsaw championships in 1901 and 1902. Flamberg played his first strong tournament inLodz ("Quadrangular") in 1906, where he took 3rd, behindAkiba Rubinstein andMikhail Chigorin .In 1910, he won the Warsaw championship ahead of Rubinstein, but lost a match to him (+0 –4 =1). In 1910, he took 3rd, behind
Gersz Rotlewi and Rubinstein, in Warsaw. In 1911, he tied for 2nd-3rd withGersz Salwe , behind Rubinstein, in Warsaw. In 1911, Flamberg took 2nd, behindStepan Levitsky , in St Petersburg (All-Russian Amateur Tournament). [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] , [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).]In 1912, he tied for 6-7th with
Sergey von Freymann inAbbazia (Opatija). The event was won byRudolf Spielmann . In 1912, he took 2nd, behind Rubinstein, in Warsaw. In 1912, he took 2nd, behindEfim Bogoljubow , in Lodz (Łódź). In 1912, he took 5th inVilna (Wilno, Vilnius) (the 7th All-Russian Masters' Tournament, RUS-ch). The event was won by Rubinstein. In 1913, Flamberg won in Warsaw ("Triangular") ahead ofOldřich Duras andMoishe Lowtzky . In 1913, he drew a match with Duras (+1 –1 =0) and won a match against Bogoljubow (+4 –0 =1), both in Warsaw. In 1913/14, he took 3rd, behindAlexander Alekhine andAron Nimzowitsch , inSankt Petersburg (the 8th RUS-ch). In 1914, Flamberg won inCracow (Kraków, Krakau – thenAustria-Hungary ).In July/August 1914, he took 17th in
Mannheim (the 19thDSB Congress , Alekhine won). [ [http://www.chessbase.de/nachrichten.asp?newsid=5003 Schach Nachrichten ] ] After the declaration of war against Russia, eleven "Russian" players (Alekhine, Bogoljubow, Bogatyrchuk, Flamberg, Koppelman, Maljutin, Rabinovich, Romanovsky, Saburov, Selesniev, Weinstein) from the interrupted Mannheim tournament were interned by Germany. In September 1914, four of them (Alekhine, Bogatyrchuk, Saburov, and Koppelman) were freed and allowed, through Switzerland, to return home. The Russian internees played eight tournaments, the first in Baden Baden (1914) and all the others in Triberg (1914/15, 1915, 1916, 1917). The tournaments were mostly won by Bogoljubow (five times). The winners were also: Flamberg in 1914, andIlya Rabinovich in 1916 and 1917 (last one tied withAlexey Selezniev ).Flamberg was allowed to return to Warsaw in 1916 (central Poland under German administration). In 1916, he tied for 4-5th (Rubinstein and Lowtzky won). In 1917, he tied for 3rd-4th (Rubinstein won). In 1919/20, he took 2nd, behind
Zdzislaw Belsitzmann , but ahead of Rubinstein. In 1923, he won, ahead of Paulin Frydman, in Warsaw. In 1924, he tied for 1st with Lowtzky in Warsaw. In 1926, Flamberg died relatively young in his native Warsaw.References
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