Gersz Salwe
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Gersz (Hersz, Georg, George, Henryk Jerzy) Salwe (born 12 December 1862, Warsaw – died 15 December 1920, Lodz) was a Polish chess grandmaster.
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In 1897, Salwe took 2nd at Lodz championship. In 1898, he won a Lodz champioship. In 1903, he took 4th at Kiev (3rd All-Russian Championship). The event was won by Mikhail Chigorin. In 1905, he tied for 1st with Oldřich Duras at Barmen. Salwe reached a peak of his career in 1906, when he won at Sankt Petersburg (4th All-Russian Champioship), ahead of Benjamin Blumenfeld and Akiba Rubinstein. In 1906, he took 4th at Lodz (Quadrangular). In 1906, he took 3rd at Lodz (Triangular). In 1906, he tied for 6-7th at Nuremberg (15th DSB Congress). In 1906, he played in famous 2nd tournament at Ostende, 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 by Carl Schlechter.
In 1907, he took 4th at Lodz (Quadrangular). In 1907, he took 8th at Ostende. In 1907, he took 9th at Carlsbad. In 1907/08, he tied for 3rd-4th with Eugene Znosko-Borovsky, behind Rubinstein and Semyon Alapin, at Lodz (5th All-Russian Champioship). In 1908, he took 13th at Vienna. In 1908, he tied for 7-9th at Prague. In 1908, he took 2nd, behind Frank James Marshall at Düsseldorf (16th DSB Congress). In 1908, he took 3rd, behind Rubinstein and Marshall, at Lodz (Triangular). In 1908, he took 2nd, behind Alapin, at Warsaw. In 1909, he tied for 8-10th at Sankt Petersburg. The event was won by Emanuel Lasker and Rubinstein. In 1909, he took 5th at Vilna (Wilno, Vilnius). The event (6th All-Russian Champioship) was won by Rubinstein.
In 1910, he tied for 11-14th at Hamburg (17th DSB Congress). In 1911, he tied for 17-18th at Carlsbad. In 1911, he tied for 2nd-3rd with Alexander 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 (7th All-Russian Championship). In 1912, he took 3rd, behind Efim Bogoljubow and Flamberg, at Lodz. In 1913, he won at Lodz. In 1914, he won at Lodz. In 1913/14, he tied for 10-11th at Sankt Petersburg. During World War I, he took 2nd in 1915, won in 1916, and took 2nd, behind Rubinstein, in 1917 at Lodz.
Salwe played several matches in Lodz. 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 against Gersz Rotlewi (+8 –5 =3). In 1910, he lost to Rotlewi (+1 –3 =6). In 1913, he lost to Duras (+0 –2 =2). In 1913, he lost to Bogoljubow (+3 –5 =2).
