Jerzy Lewi
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| Jerzy Lewi |
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 Poland (until 1971) Sweden (1972)
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| Born | April 22, 1949 Wroclaw , Poland |
| Died | October 30, 1972 Lund |
| Best Elo rating | 2430 (July 1971 to July 1972) |
Jerzy Lewi (born April 22, 1949 in Breslau , † October 30, 1972 in Lund ) was a Polish chess master .
Levi was one of the greatest talents in Polish chess. From 1965 to 1969 he won the Polish youth championship five times in a row. In 1967 he was third at the European Youth Championships in Groningen after Anatoli Karpow and András Adorján , but before Jan Timman . This was the greatest success of a Polish youth player in the 1960s, while Lewi could not win a promising position against Karpow, which would have meant an even higher place.
In 1969 Lewi won the Polish championship in Lublin and thus qualified for the zone tournament in Athens in the same year. After the tournament, in which he took a lower rank, he did not return to Poland, but settled in Sweden, where he began studying mathematics and took part in tournaments of the leading Swedish chess players. In Poland, Lewis name came up on the censorship index and was not allowed to be mentioned for several years. Lewi died in 1972 at the age of 23 in a car accident.
societies
In Poland Lewi played for KS Maraton Warszawa , with whom he was Polish team champion in 1968 , in Sweden for the Malmö Allmänna Schackklub .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jerzy Lewis results at Polish team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
- ↑ Obituary (PDF file; 6.1 MB) in Tidskrift för Schack 9/1972, p. 270 and 274 (Swedish)
Web links
- Replayable chess games by Jerzy Lewi on chessgames.com (English)
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| SURNAME | Lewi, Jerzy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish chess player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 22, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 30, 1972 |
| Place of death | Lund |