Alexander Flamberg

Alexander Flamberg
Association	Poland
Born	1880 Warsaw , Russian Empire
Died	January 24, 1926 Warsaw
Best Elo rating	2578 (July 1914) ( historical rating )

Alexander Flamberg (* 1880 in Warsaw ; † January 24, 1926 there ) was a Polish chess player .

Alexander Davidowitsch Flamberg spent his youth in England, where he also learned to play chess. On his return he won the championship of Warsaw in 1901 and 1902. In the four-master tournament Łódź in 1906 he was third behind Rubinstein and Tschigorin and in front of Salwe . In 1910 he won the championship in Warsaw ahead of Rubinstein, but then lost a competition against him (+0 = 1 −4).

Flamberg was one of the "Russian" participants in the Mannheim chess tournament in 1914, who were interned after the outbreak of war and the cancellation of the tournament. The internees, including Alekhine and Bohatyrtschuk at the beginning , played a total of eight tournaments, the first in Baden-Baden and the following in Triberg . Flamberg won the first tournament, five times Bogoljubow was the winner and twice Rabinowitsch .

Tournament successes

• Warsaw 1910: 3rd place
• Warsaw 1911: 2/3 space
• Saint Petersburg 1911: 2nd place
• Warsaw 1912: 2nd place
• Vilna 1912: 5th place
• Łódź 1912: 2nd place
• Warsaw 1913: 1st place
• Saint Petersburg 1913/14: 3rd place (behind Nimzowitsch and Alekhine)
• Krakow 1914: 1st place
• Baden-Baden 1914: 1st place
• Warsaw 1917: 3rd / 4th space
• Warsaw 1919/20: 2nd place
• Warsaw 1923: 1st place
• Warsaw 1924: 1./2. space

Web links

• Replayable chess games by Alexander Flamberg on chessgames.com (English)