Dawid Przepiórka

Dawid Przepiórka
Association	Poland
Born	December 22, 1880 Warsaw
Died	after January 1940 Palmiry
Best Elo rating	2612 (September 1929) ( historical rating )

Dawid Przepiórka [ pʃɛpjurka ] (born December 22, 1880 in Warsaw , † after January 1940 in Palmiry ) was a Polish chess master , chess patron and very important study composer .

Life

Przepiórka grew up in very wealthy circumstances. As a young man he studied mathematics in Warsaw, Munich and Göttingen . During his student days in Munich, he became acquainted with chess composition , an area in which he later became the creator of much-noticed works.

A first collection of his tasks appeared in the Festschrift of the Academic Chess Club in Munich in 1911, in 1932 David Przepiórka, a Master of Strategy from Henri Weenink , appeared in Amsterdam , containing 130 tasks from Przepiórka.

In addition to chess composition, Przepiórka also played tournament chess and was also successful in this field: in 1904 he received the championship title at the 14th Congress of the German Chess Federation in the main tournament in Coburg , which he won. Until the 1930s he took part in a number of international tournaments . In 1926 he won a tournament in Munich, ahead of Efim Bogoljubow and Rudolf Spielmann , and in 1928 in The Hague he was second behind Max Euwe at the World Amateur Championship . He was national champion at the first Polish championship in 1926 in Warsaw. He played in Poland's national team (alongside Akiba Rubinstein and Savielly Tartakower ) at the 1930 Chess Olympiads in Hamburg , which Poland won, and in Prague in 1931 , where Poland came second. With the Warsaw city selection, he won the Polish team championship in 1934 .

His best historical rating was 2612, which he achieved in September 1929.

Przepiórka's love for chess and his immense wealth found a happy combination. Without his generous financial donation it would not have been possible for the Poles to host the 1935 Chess Olympiad in Warsaw. Przepiórka's generosity was very much appreciated in Warsaw. He made his Warsaw villa available to the local chess club free of charge and daily as a game room.

After the German occupation of Poland , Przepiórka was the undoing of his Judaism: In January 1940, he and other chess players were arrested by the Gestapo in a Warsaw café . A few days later he died in a mass execution in the Kampinos National Park not far from Palmiry . The exact date is unknown.

Game example

Przepiórka – Nimzowitsch

	a	b	c	d	e	f	G	H
8th									8th
7th									7th
6th									6th
5									5
4th									4th
3									3
2									2
1									1
	a	b	c	d	e	f	G	H

End position after 72.Rxe6

In the following game, Przepiórka defeated Aaron Nimzowitsch with the white pieces at the tournament in Frankfurt am Main in 1930 .

Przepiórka – Nimzowitsch 1-0

Frankfurt am Main, September 8, 1930

Colle system , D05

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. e3 c5 4. Bd3 d5 5. c3 Nbd7 6. Nbd2 Bd6 7. 0–0 0–0 8. Re1 c4 9. Bc2 b5 10. e4 Bf4 11. e5 Ne8 12. Nf1 Bxc1 13. Qxc1 h6 14. Qf4 f5 15. exf6 Qxf6 16. Qg3 a5 17. a3 Ra6 18. Ne3 Rb6 19. Re2 Kh8 20. Tae1 Nd6 21. Ne5 Qg5 22. Qxg5 hxg5 23. Ng6 + Kg8 24. Nxf8 Kxf8 25.Ng4 Nf6 26.Ne5 b4 27.axb4 axb4 28.Ra1 Ke7 29.Ra7 + Bb7 30.Re3 bxc3 31.bxc3 Rb2 32.Nc6 + Kd7 33.Nb4 g4 34.h3 gxh3 35.Rxh3 Kc7 36.Rg3 Kb6 37. Ra2 Rxa2 38.Nxa2 Nde8 39. Re3 Bc8 40. f3 Bd7 41. Nc1 Kc7 42. g4 Kd6 43. Kg2 Nc7 44. Kg3 Be8 45. Kf4 Nd7 46.Ba4 Bg6 47. Bxd7 Kxd7 48. Ke5 Nb5 49.Na2 Nd6 50. Nb4 Ke7 51. Re1 Nf7 + 52. Kf4 Kf6 53. Ta1 Bh7 54. Ta6 g5 + 55. Ke3 Ke7 56. Nc6 + Kf6 57. Nb8 Bg8 58. Nd7 + Ke7 59. Ne5 Nxe5 60. dxe5 Kf7 61. Ta7 + Kg6 62. Re7 Bf7 63. Kd4 Kg7 64. Kc5 Kf8 65. Kd6 Kg7 66. Rc7 Kf8 67. Rc8 + Kg7 68. Ke7 Bg8 69. Rf8 Bh7 70. Rf7 + Kg6 71. Rf6 + Kg7 72. Rxe6 1: 0

study

Dawid Przepiórka
Magyar Sakkvilág, 1926

	a	b	c	d	e	f	G	H
8th									8th
7th									7th
6th									6th
5									5
4th									4th
3									3
2									2
1									1
	a	b	c	d	e	f	G	H

White to move reaches a draw

Solution:

1. Kb4 – c5 Kb8 – c7
2. Kc5 – d5! Bf8xd6
3. h3 – h4 g5xh4
4. Re4 – c4 +! Kc7 – d7 The king is tied on d6, otherwise the bishop is captured.
5. Rc4xh4! Rh8xh4 stalemate .

literature

• Tomasz Lissowski: Dawid Przepiórka, his life and work . The Chess Player, Nottingham 1999, ISBN 1-901034-24-0 .

swell

• Helmut Wieteck: David against Goliath - David Przepiorka for his 100th birthday . Schach-Echo 1980, issue 23/24, p. 380/81.

Web links

Commons : Dawid Przepiórka  - collection of images

• Replayable chess games by Dawid Przepiórka on chessgames.com (English)
• Compositions by Dawid Przepiórka on the PDB server

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dawid Przepiórka's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English).