Szaja Kozłowski

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Szaja Kozłowski (around 1939)

Szaja Kozłowski (* 1910 , † 1943 ) was a Polish student composer and talented chess player.

Life

Szaja Kozłowski's exact life dates are not known, but Czerniak knew him very well. Kozłowski died in the Łódź ghetto during the Nazi occupation of Poland in 1943 .

Tournament chess

Kozłowski was a multiple participant in the final of the Łódź City Championship, but did not achieve the very big successes. Two of his games have been published in a book.

Chess composition

Kozłowski achieved much better results in chess composition. He specialized in studies. In a special appendix to the tournament book for the 35th anniversary of the Łódź Chess Association, 12 of his studies have been reproduced. Almost 30 studies by him are known. Grzegorz Grzeban wrote an article on the Kozłowski subject in Szachy , No. 2 in 1956 , which probably deals with the temporary interruption of the connection between the two towers.

In the summer of 1967, Włodzimierz Proskurowski spent many hours in the Warsaw National Library, looking through thousands of pages of the Głos Poranny newspaper and other material from the 1930s, and was able to rediscover nine completely forgotten studies by Szaja Kozłowski. He published this result in 1968 in Szachy , No. 5, 6 and 7.

This was partially reproduced in eg . vol. II, No. 18, 1969, pp. 42-47.

Szaja Kozłowski
Świat Szachowy, 1931
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White to move wins

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Solution:

1. Rg7 +! Kxh8
2nd Rh7 + Kg8
3rd g7! wins

An attempt to study with the move 1. g7? to be proven as secondary solution was analytically refuted by Walter Veitch. See also Zwilling van der Heijdens on this study

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wlodek Proskurowski: Personal communication. August, 2007.
  2. ^ W. Proskurowski: The fruits from my chess garden. Chess Enterprises, Coraopolis, PA 1993, ISBN 0-945470-37-1 , p. 10. (English)
  3. ^ Władysław Litmanowicz, Jerzy Giżycki: Szachy od A do Z. Volume 1, Warsaw 1986, ISBN 83-217-2481-7 , p. 471. (Polish)
  4. ↑ D. Daniuszewski (Ed.): Księga jubileuszowa Łódzkiego Towarzystwa Zwolenników Gry Szachowej, wydana z okazji XXXV-lecia. Łódz 1938, p. 163f and p. 168f. (Polish)
  5. ^ Walter Veitch: I like endings, but .... (talk to The Chess Endgame Study Circle). In: eg. No. 15, March 1969, p. 464. (English)

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personal data
SURNAME Kozłowski, Szaja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish composer and chess player
DATE OF BIRTH 1910
DATE OF DEATH 1943