Jerzy Lewi

Jerzy Lewi (22 April 1949, Wrocław – 30 October 1972, Lund) was a Polish chess master.

He won five-times Polish Junior championships in 1965–1969. He took 3rd, behind Anatoly Karpov and Andras Adorjan, at Groningen 1967 (European Junior Championship). In 1968, he tied for 2nd-5th in Łódź (25th Polish Championship). In 1969, he won in Lublin (26th POL-ch). He took 12th at Athens 1969 (zonal; Milan Matulović won), and had decided to stay in the West. As a refugee, because of the 1968 Polish political crisis, he lived in Sweden where he died in a traffic accident. He was buried in a Jewish cemetery in Malmö.^[1]

References

1. ^ http://www.astercity.net/~vistula/jerzy_lewi_koncowka.htm

Jerzy Levy did not participate in the Athens 1969 zonal. The actual player who took 12th place in that event was the Scottish IM David Levy ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Levy_%28chess_player%29 ).

See also

• List of Eastern Bloc defectors

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Name	Lewi, Jerzy
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Date of birth	22 April 1949
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Date of death	30 October 1972
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