Kasimir de Weydlich, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Kasimir de Weydlich

Polish chess player

Date of Birth: 04-Aug-1859

Date of Death: 17-Sep-1913

Profession: chess player

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About 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, but won an individual game against Józef Zabinski, the winner of the event.
  • Then he took 16th at Leipzig 1894 (the 9th DSB Congress won by Siegbert Tarrasch), and won a mini-match against Jean Taubenhaus (2 : 0) at Warsaw 1898.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, shared 2nd in 1896 (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.

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