1. Alapin 4.5
2. Rotlewi 4.0
3. Spielmann 2.0
4. Fahrni 1.5

Rotlewi scored +2 =4 -0 (winning games against Fahrni and Spielmann).

The result was kept secret at first, in deference to Rotlewi's participation at San Sebastian (1912). But he didn't participate and it was revealed that he started to suffer from a severe neuropathy shortly after Karlsbad (1911). He had to be hospitalized in a sanatorium (see my post Georg Rotlewi ) and as his medical advisor, Dr. Johannes Esser wanted to avoid everything that could have had a negative impact on Rotlewi's frame of mind (<Unter diesen Umständen sah sich Dr. Esser als Rotlewis ärztlicher Berater verpflichtet, alles zu vermeiden, was den Gemütszustand seines Patienten hätte ungünstig beeinflussen können.>).

Source: Page 113 of the 1912 'Wiener Schachzeitung'

"In view of the short arrival of the Russian youth, G. A. Rotlewi, who, by the way, is engaged in a series of five games with Marshall at the Cafe Kerhau[?], Berlin, it will not be out of place to give his latest photo, as kindly forwarded by his uncle, B. Laski, of this city."

Thanks for the hint!

The Sun (New York N.Y.]), Sunday, 1911.10.22, 3rd section, page 9: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/l...

Dr. Lasker also mentioned Rotlewi's intention to go to the USA. As he was still in Berlin at the end of October and in Amsterdam at the end of December, it is probably rather unlikely that he made it, as his neuropathy must also have developed / shown symptoms around that time.

Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 12 October 1911:

"It is now reported, on the authority of Wochenschach of Berlin, that the series of five games between F. J. Marshall and G. A. Rotlewi will not take place. On October 1, Marshall played against 25 opponents of the Augustea in Leipsic, making a score of 20 wins, 4 losses and 1 draw."

Regarding New York 1912, the 1911 'Wiener Schachzeitung' reports on pages 174-175 that an International Tournament in New York of the highest order was planned for January 8 (double-round robin, 9 Europeans, 3 Americans) and refer to the 'Brookly Daily Eagle' of May 11, 1911. Hartwig Cassel and Hermann Helms were in charge of it and H. F. Ridder also involved.

Then, on pages 260-261 of the 1912 'Wiener Schachzeitung', the New - York Havana International Tournament, which had been reported in the press during the last 2 years and never taken too seriously was announced to not take place. Cassel, Helms and Ridder had retreated and less well-known people had assumed control. The last try was to organize it to begin on November 30, 1912.

This was now expanded to a WC tournament (the first 4 players would have played a quadruple-round robin to determine the new WC) including Dr. Lasker, Spielmann, Tarrasch, Teichmann, Duras, Maroczy, Schlechter, Dr. Vidmar, Dr. Bernstein, Niemzowitsch, Rubinstein, Burn, Janowski, Capablanca and Marshall (double-round robin, 1st leg in New York, 2nd in Havana). So no chance for Rotlewi.

I found him in the Hamburg passenger lists:

Thanks for the additional info - I added it to the bio.

Rotlewi's opponent is most likely Dr. Ernst Georg Jünger, the father of Ernst Jünger. The game appears to be an offhand game.

Rehburg is a very small town (pop. 4,000) and today not independent (largest borough of Rehburg-Loccum; pop. 10,000). Rehburg-Loccum, Lower Saxony, is located near Hanover. So it is rather far away from all of Rotlewi's playing locations (1911: Munich, Cologne and Carlsbad) and it seems too small for a chess event like a Simul.

Source: Page 373 of the November-December 1911 'Wiener Schachzeitung' (originally in 'Bohemia' of October 1 and 8, 1911)

* For another such case see Sergey Nikolaevich Von Freymann

<Zu ihnen hat sich ein ganz Junger gesellt, der den Mut hat, seinem eigenen Urteile zu folgen. Und dazu des Vorrechts der Jugend sich bedient, die Dinge in rosigem Lichte zu sehen. Daher streitet er ohne Bedenken und in naivem Glauben an seinen Stern so tapfer wie ein schwäbischer Kreuzritter, wenn schon die Feinde ihn ringsum bedrängen. Er bringt einen frischen Zug in die Arena des Schachwettstreits, und solche neuen Impulse sind wohltätig, weil das Schach, wo es stagniert, die Neigung hat, an des "Gedankens Blässe" zu kranken.>

(A very young man has joined them [Teichmann, Schlechter and Rubinstein, leading at Karlsbad (1911)], who has the courage to follow his own opinion. And therefore he makes use of the privilege of the youth, to view the things in rosy light. So he fights without concerns and in naive belief in his star, as brave as a Swabian crusader, when he is already surrounded by his enemies. He brings a fresh breeze into the arena of chess contest, and such new impulses are beneficial, because chess, where it stagnates, is disposed to suffer from the "pale cast of thought".)

<Ernst Jünger, qui l’accompagne dans de longues promenades à travers la lande, est frappé par sa personnalité douloureuse.>

and, when asked why he was so sorrowful, quoted Schiller's 'Wallensteins Tod':

<Qu’est-ce qu’une vie que l’amour n’éclaire pas?>

Link: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/...

Bachmann's yearbooks initially wrote his surname as <Rothlewy>.

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. ♘c3 ♘f6 4. ♗g5 ♗e7 5. ♘f3 0-0 6. e3 ♘e4 7. ♗xe7 ♕xe7 8. ♕b3 c6 9. ♗d3 f5 10. 0-0 ♘d7 11. ♖ad1 ♔h8 12. ♘d2 ♘df6 13. f3 ♘xd2 14. ♖xd2 e5 15. cxd5 exd4 16. exd4 ♕e3+ 17. ♖ff2 ♕xd4 18. ♗xf5 ♕e5 19. ♗e4 cxd5 20. ♘xd5 ♗e6 21. ♕c3 ♕xc3 22. ♘xc3 ♖f7 23. ♖d6 ♖e8 24.♖e2 ♗c4 25. ♗d5 ♖xe2 26. ♘xe2 ♗xd5 27. ♖d8+ ♘g8 28. ♖xd5 g6 29. ♘c3 ♔g7 30. ♔f2 ♘f6 31. ♖d4 ♖c7 32. ♔e3 ♔f7 33. ♖f4 ♔e7 34. ♖xf6 ♖xc3+ 35. bxc3 ♔xf6 36. ♔e4 ♔e6 37. f4 h5 38. h3 h4 39. ♔f3 ♔f5 40. g4+ hxg3 e.p 41. ♔xg3 b5 42. ♔f3 a6 43. h4 a5 44. a3 a4 45. ♔g3 and black resigned

<Ernst Jünger, qui l’accompagne dans de longues promenades à travers la lande, est frappé par sa personnalité douloureuse.>

I am afraid that French autor was somewhat late with his information. Please read following text by Harald Ballo (only Polish version is available):

<For the first time in my life, I encountered a type of person that is increasingly common in a society of increasing diversity: a precocious talent in a chosen field of fine arts, surprising and astonishing experts. However, if existence is based on this, then specific problems arise: the game itself is like the fruit of free hours, but when it becomes a source of income, there will be no shortage of bad experiences.

(...) Rotlewi walked briskly as if he considered it his duty or a healing exercise. We later saw him standing outside the door of the house. He suffered from shortness of breath, which forced him to go outside on humid nights. (...) The chess player walked even faster, he wanted to get tired; he discovered that the fatigue of physical exertion was a previously unknown benefit for him. I could easily keep up with him, as we often traveled long distances in a kind of "dog trot", as we read in "The Leather Stocking". We talked about various topics, but the conversation was always covered by a leaden veil of depression.

As we passed through the cemeteries again, we stopped briefly at the barns. I saw his pale face in the moonlight. (...) I was surprised to hear myself speaking and I was horrified when I said: "Mr. Rotlewi, I can't stand it any longer. I can't understand why you are so sad?"

Was it a question, a complaint, or an accusation? However, it is certainly a sign of courage. What amazed me even more was that I received an answer - one of the Great Ones entrusted me with his secret. I saw him in the shade of the straw roof, raising both hands like a biblical prophet begging for rain during a long drought: "What is life without the glow of love?"

Extract from an article by Harald Ballo (Offenbach, Germany) from: http://szachowavistula.pl/felietony...

"...The Swede Calle Erlandsson (quoted by Edward Winter in "Chess Note" 1392, vol. 6) maintains that Rotlewi's name was Gedali Abram, and not, as the above lexicons say, Hersz (Gersz) or Georg. Erlandsson notes that the letter "v" is missing in the Polish alphabet. Meanwhile, the chess historian Ludwig Bachmann in his annuals (Schachjahrbuch) first used the spelling "Rothlewy" and then "Rotlevi". During World War I, there were no mentions of Rotlewi in the German press. It is not very clear where the information about his death in 1920 comes from.

....The writer Ernst Jűnger (1895 - 1998) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst... was considered a controversial author because of his tendency to glorify the soldier's spirit and war in his early works. However, he was considered a sensitive observer, faithfully describing the world around him and his inner desires. On the occasion of his 100th birthday, the birthday boy was congratulated and visited in his home in southern Germany by French President Mitterand and German Chancellor Kohl.

In his youth, Jűnger - whom few people know - established friendly relations with Rotlewi, who was six years older than him. The fragments quoted below come from the book " ["Rehburg reminiscences with wood carvings"] (Ernst Klett publishing house, Stuttgart 1967) and contain a number of observations about Rotlewi - a man and a chess player. We owe the information to Manfred Mittelbach from Hamburg that the Klett-Cotta publishing house in Stuttgart, on the occasion of the centenary of Ernst Jűnger's birth, published the book "Subtelne Łowy" in a bibliophile edition of 1,000 copies, with colorful drawings by Walter Linsenmaier, in a large folio format.

The action of the story takes place around 1908 in Bad Rehrburg near Hannover, where the writer's father had a house."

<Rotlewi came from Łódź. (...) His father met him in the Romanska café, where Rotlewi played with amateurs, a game of 50 pfennigs, or - when the stakes were high - one mark each. Rotlewi was long, thin, and sickly; his nose stuck out from his olive-green face like a parrot's beak. It was here that he encountered the countryside for the first time in his life; garden, fields, meadows - it was a new, unknown world for him. He avoided the forest because it seemed eerie to him. He soon noticed that walking served him, revitalizing him in a way he had never known before. He preferred to wander around the neighborhood with us children rather than play with his father. He became a tireless walker but was reluctant to walk alone. Sometimes, late in the evening, he would come and encourage me to wander around the moors, and we wouldn't return until around midnight.

I accompanied him willingly. His stay coincided with the period of my life when the company of an adult, previously undesirable, became an experience and even an adventure. The new world had not yet been seen, much less understood, although its outlines could be felt, as at the end of a sea voyage. We don't know if they are clouds or mountains...