Kasimir de Weydlich

Casimir (Kasimir, Kazimierz) de Weydlich (4 August 1859 – 17 September 1913) was a Polish chess master.

Born into an aristocratic family in Skotyniany, near Kamenets Podolskiy, he began his chess career in the early 1880s. He tied for 5-6th at the 2nd Warsaw City Championship in 1883/84,[1] but won an individual game against Józef Żabiński, the winner of the event. Then he took 16th at Leipzig 1894 (the 9th DSB Congress won by Siegbert Tarrasch),[2] and won a mini-match against Jean Taubenhaus (2 : 0) at Warsaw 1898.[3]

Count de Weydlich was a co-founder of the Lwowski Klub Szachistów (The Lemberg Chess Club) in Lwów (Lviv, Lemberg), Galicia (then Austria-Hungary), in November 1894. He played in several tournaments in Lemberg; took 3rd in 1895,[4] shared 2nd in 1896[5] (both won by Ignatz von Popiel), took 4th in 1904 (Emil Gross won), and tied for 4-5th in 1912 (Oskar Piotrowski won).

His best achievement was the second prize at Le Monde Illustré correspondence tournament in 1897. He died in Lemberg in 1913.

References

  1. "Edo Ratings, Warsaw 1884". Edochess.ca. Retrieved 2014-01-25.
  2. Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's Chess Tournament Crosstables, An Electronic Edition, Anders Thulin, Malmö, 2004-09-01
  3. Tadeusz Wolsza, Arcymistrzowie, mistrzowie, amatorzy.... Słownik biograficzny szachistów polskich, tom 1, pp. 78-80. Wydawnictwo DiG, Warszawa 1995. ISBN 83-85490-37-X
  4. "Edo Ratings, Lemberg 1895". Edochess.ca. Retrieved 2014-01-25.
  5. "Edo Ratings, Lemberg 1896". Edochess.ca. Retrieved 2014-01-25.

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