# Alexander Flamberg > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Alexander_Flamberg > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Alexander_Flamberg.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Flamberg > Source revision: 1279044702 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|Polish chess player (1880–1926)}} border|right|200px ''' Alexander Flamberg ''' (1880 – 24 January 1926) was a Polish [chess](/source/chess) master. ==Biography== Alexander Davidovich Flamberg was born in 1880 in [Warsaw](/source/Warsaw) (then [Russian Empire](/source/Russian_Empire). He spent his early years in England, where he learned to play chess. After return to Warsaw, he became one of the strongest Polish chess players. In 1900, he took 2nd, behind [Salomon Langleben](/source/Salomon_Langleben), in Warsaw. He won the Warsaw championships in 1901 and 1902. Flamberg played his first strong tournament in [Łódź](/source/%C5%81%C3%B3d%C5%BA) (''Quadrangular'') in 1906, where he took 3rd, behind [Akiba Rubinstein](/source/Akiba_Rubinstein) and [Mikhail Chigorin](/source/Mikhail_Chigorin). In 1910, he won the Warsaw championship ahead of Rubinstein, but lost a match to him (+0 –4 =1). In 1910, he took 3rd, behind [Gersz Rotlewi](/source/Gersz_Rotlewi) and Rubinstein, in Warsaw. In 1911, he tied for 2nd-3rd with [Gersz Salwe](/source/Gersz_Salwe), behind Rubinstein, in Warsaw. In 1911, Flamberg took 2nd, behind [Stepan Levitsky](/source/Stepan_Levitsky), in St Petersburg (All-Russian Amateur Tournament).{{cite web|url=http://www.anders.thulin.name/SUBJECTS/CHESS/CTCIndex.pdf |title=Archived item |accessdate=2015-09-20 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070704030849/http://www.anders.thulin.name/SUBJECTS/CHESS/CTCIndex.pdf |archivedate=2007-07-04}} Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's Chess Tournament Cross tables, An Electronic Edition, Anders Thulin, Malmö, 2004-09-01Litmanowicz, Władysław & Giżycki, Jerzy (1986, 1987). Szachy od A do Z. Wydawnictwo Sport i Turystyka Warszawa. {{ISBN|83-217-2481-7}} (1. A-M), {{ISBN|83-217-2745-X}} (2. N-Z). In 1912, he tied for 6-7th with [Sergey von Freymann](/source/Sergey_von_Freymann) in [Abbazia](/source/Abbazia) (Opatija). The event was won by [Rudolf Spielmann](/source/Rudolf_Spielmann). In 1912, he took 2nd, behind Rubinstein, in Warsaw. In 1912, he took 2nd, behind [Efim Bogoljubow](/source/Efim_Bogoljubow), in Łódź. In 1912, he took 5th in [Vilnius](/source/Vilnius) (the 7th [All-Russian Masters' Tournament](/source/Russian_Chess_Championship), RUS-ch). The event was won by Rubinstein. In 1913, Flamberg won in Warsaw (''Triangular'') ahead of [Oldřich Duras](/source/Old%C5%99ich_Duras) and [Moishe Lowtzky](/source/Moishe_Lowtzky). In 1913, he drew a match with Duras (+1 –1 =0) and won a match against Bogoljubow (+4 –0 =1), both in Warsaw. In 1913/14, he took 3rd, behind [Alexander Alekhine](/source/Alexander_Alekhine) and [Aron Nimzowitsch](/source/Aron_Nimzowitsch), in [Sankt Petersburg](/source/Sankt_Petersburg) (the 8th RUS-ch). In 1914, Flamberg won in [Kraków](/source/Krak%C3%B3w) (then [Austria-Hungary](/source/Austria-Hungary)). In July/August 1914, he took 17th in [Mannheim](/source/Mannheim) (the 19th [DSB Congress](/source/DSB_Congress), Alekhine won).[http://www.chessbase.de/nachrichten.asp?newsid=5003 Schach Nachrichten] After the declaration of war against Russia, eleven "Russian" players ([Alekhine](/source/Alexander_Alekhine), [Bogoljubow](/source/Efim_Bogoljubow), [Bogatyrchuk](/source/Fedor_Bogatyrchuk), Flamberg, Koppelman, [Maljutin](/source/Boris_Maliutin), [Rabinovich](/source/Ilya_Rabinovich), [Romanovsky](/source/Peter_Romanovsky), [Saburov](/source/Peter_Petrovich_Saburov), [Selesniev](/source/Alexey_Selezniev), [Weinstein](/source/Samuil_Weinstein)) from the interrupted Mannheim tournament were interned by Germany. In September 1914, four of them (Alekhine, Bogatyrchuk, Saburov, and Koppelman) were freed and allowed, through Switzerland, to return home. The Russian internees played eight tournaments, the first in Baden Baden (1914) and all the others in Triberg (1914/15, 1915, 1916, 1917). The tournaments were mostly won by Bogoljubow (five times). The winners were also: Flamberg in 1914, and [Ilya Rabinovich](/source/Ilya_Rabinovich) in 1916 and 1917 (last one tied with [Alexey Selezniev](/source/Alexey_Selezniev)). Flamberg was allowed to return to Warsaw in 1916 (central Poland under German administration). In 1916, he tied for 4-5th (Rubinstein and Lowtzky won). In 1917, he tied for 3rd-4th (Rubinstein won). In 1919/20, he took 2nd, behind [Zdzislaw Belsitzmann](/source/Zdzislaw_Belsitzmann), but ahead of Rubinstein. In 1923, he won, ahead of [Paulin Frydman](/source/Paulino_Frydman), in Warsaw. In 1924, he tied for 1st with Lowtzky in Warsaw. In 1926, Flamberg died relatively young in his native Warsaw. ==See also== * [List of Jewish chess players](/source/List_of_Jewish_chess_players) ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== *{{chessgames player|id=19994}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Flamberg, Alexander}} Category:1880 births Category:1926 deaths Category:19th-century Polish Jews Category:Jewish chess players Category:Chess players from Warsaw Category:19th-century Polish chess players Category:20th-century Polish chess players Category:20th-century Polish sportsmen Category:Chess players from the Russian Empire --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Alexander Flamberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Flamberg) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Flamberg?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.