Dec-09-03
 | | Chessical: Georg Salwe 1862 - 1920.
Marshall said of Salwe, "(he) was a very interesting type: a natural player, full of self-reliance and with little knowledge of the books. He had a knack of worming out of bad positions...". Salwe was a strong player but he seems to have started late in life and then been cut off from tournament opportunities by the First World War. He twice played the emergent Rubinstein in matches in 1903 scoring a credible =5-5=0, and then +3-5=2.
He also played a match with Chigorin in 1906 scoring +5-7=3. He won the Russian Championship (St Petersburg 1906), and was 9th in the very strong St Petersburg tournament of 1909. |
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| Apr-06-05 | | Runemaster: It's easy to forget players like Salwe who might often be remembered for famous losses of theirs, but he was clearly very strong. A partial list from the database includes wins against Rubinstein (2, although admittedly also a lot of losses against him), Chigorin (2), Tarrasch, Mieses (4), Tartakower (3), Janowski (2), Schlechter (2), Spielmann (3), Reti, Marshall, Nimzovich. Salwe also seems to have had a plus score against quite a few of the above players. |
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| Jan-18-06 | | Ludamad: yay a polish player ^____^ |
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| Nov-23-07 | | Karpova: From "The Life & Games of Akiva Rubinstein - Volume 1: Incrowned King" by IM Donaldson and IM Minev (p. 19-20): <Rubinstein's greatest rival for much of his early career was Georg Henryk Solomonowicz Salwe (1862-1920). Salwe was born on October 24, 1862 (Gaige; Szachy od A do Z gives Dec. 12) in Warsaw and, unlike Rubinstein, who grew up in poverty, came from a wealthy family. While he was already considered one of Warsaw's best players by 1882, it wasn't until Salwe moved to Lodz in 1894 that he found real opportunities to test his skills. There, in 1899, he split a pair of games against Dawid Janovsky, during the latter's visit to Lodz that year. When the Lodz Chess Society was formed in 1903, he and Rubinstein benefitted enormously.Salwe didn't play his first real tournament until he was 40 (Kiev 1903) but this late start didn't prevent him from achieving some excellent results, including a victory in the fourth All-Russian tournament in Saint Petersburg in 1906. Salwe played three matches against Rubinstein, drawing in 1903 (7-7), losing in 1904 (4-6), and getting shellacked in 1907 (6-16). A businessman by profession, Salwe found time to edit the short-lived Yiddish language chess magazine Shakh-Zaytung (1913), which numbered Rubinstein among its contributors. During a brief career, which for all intents and purposes lasted from 1903 to 1914, Salwe was Poland's number-two player, reaching a five-year peak average rating of 2500, according to the Elo system.> |
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| Oct-24-09 | | BIDMONFA: Georg Salwe SALWE, George H. S.
http://www.bidmonfa.com/salwe_georg...
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May-24-10
 | | GrahamClayton: An interesting career - what are the chances of a current player competing in their first international tournament in their mid-40s? |
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| Oct-24-11 | | brankat: His main claim to fame seems to be games he played against A.Rubinstein. |
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Dec-13-12
| | GrahamClayton: Here is a nice combination by Salwe against NN in 1906:
click for larger view1.♖xd4 ♕xd4 2.♕d8+ ♗g8 3.♕h4+! 1-0
click for larger view3...♕xh4 4.♗e5#; 3...♔g7 4.♕xd4+ ♖xd4 5.♗e5+ |
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| May-30-13 | | Karpova: <G. Salwe, der Lodzer Meister, ist eine Art Spezialität im Spieltypus, der sehr gesund und stark ist. Tiefe Kombinationen liegen ihm nicht, aber an seiner Festigkeit hat sich schon mancher den Kopf eingerannt. Er spielt nur wenig Eröffnungen, meist nur Damenbauerspiel, aber dieses Instrument behandelt er virtuos, denn er kennt jede, auch die verborgenste Nuance, die ihn in Vorteil bringen könnte.> From page 352 of the 1910 'Wiener Schachzeitung' |
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May-30-13
 | | Dionysius1: <GrahamClayton> Very entertaining combination - many thanks. |
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| Aug-25-14 | | shallowred: “We first learn from misfortune. This maxim
applies as well to chess players. Many grandmasters, in situations of misfortune become
less – much less – while others, to whom otherwise little has been given in the way of alertness, when submitting to the blows of fate grow in stature and reveal themselves as heroes. Salwe has to be assigned to this latter class of character. He never loses his cool self-possession. Good fortune does not make him exuberant, ill fortune does not cause him to lose heart, and although by playing every move he hopes for the best, he is always prepared for the worst.” (Marco and Schlechter) Karlsbad 1907 T.B.; excerpt from chesscafe.comThis, to me, is what chess is all about. A playground where we can practice balancing emotion and logic. |
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| Oct-24-16 | | TheFocus: Happy birthday, Georg Salwe.
I hate seeing George spelled without the final "e." |
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Oct-24-18
 | | Bubo bubo: Hooray, it's October 24, and we have a very reputable <POTD> at last! RIP Georg Salwe - I wonder how good you could have been if you had learnt to play chess earlier in your life. |
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Jul-11-20
 | | SteinitzLives: Anecdote about Salwe from the newly translated book: Soviet Outcast - The Life and Games of Grigory Levenfish: "In 1907 he (Salwe) had played in a tournament in the resort of Ostend. At the entrance of the administration building, on the bottom step of the staircase there was carved the Latin inscription `Salve` (welcome). Teichmann without particular difficulty convinced Salwe that the inscription was in his honour, and the master from Lodz was very flattered by the attention paid to him by the Belgian administration. |
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Jul-11-20
 | | perfidious: That recalls the (possibly apocryphal) story of Salo Flohr playing at Nottingham 1936, and being aboard the lift, with the lift boy calling off, as they ascended: 'First floor! Second floor! Third floor!'. |
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Oct-24-22
 | | offramp:
🎵🎼Follow me, follow
Down to the hollow
And there let us Georg Salwe in glorious mud...🎵 |
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Apr-16-23
 | | Gottschalk: From http://al20102007.narod.ru/matches/... two games remaining of a ten games match:
[Event "Match"]
[Site "Lodz (Poland)"]
[Date "1913.??.??"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Bogoljubow Efim (GER)"]
[Black "Salwe Georg"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D37"]
[PlyCount "73"]
[EventDate "1913.??.??"]
1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. c4 e6 4. Nc3 Be7 5. Bf4 c6 6. e3 O-O 7. Bd3 Nbd7 8. O-O
Re8 9. Rc1 Qa5 10. a3 dxc4 11. Bxc4 Nd5 12. Bg3 Nxc3 13. Rxc3 Qh5 14. Be2 Qg6
15. Qb3 Bf6 16. Rd1 Qh5 17. Qc2 Qg6 18. Bd3 Qh5 19. Be4 g6 20. Rxc6 bxc6 21.
Qxc6 Bb7 22. Qxb7 Nb6 23. Qa6 Nd5 24. Rc1 Red8 25. h3 Qh6 26. Rc5 Be7 27. Bxd5
exd5 28. Rc7 Qf8 29. Ne5 Rdc8 30. Rd7 Rd8 31. Rb7 Qe8 32. Nc6 Rd7 33. Rxd7 Qxd7
34. Nb8 Qd8 35. Qb7 Rxb8 36. Qxb8 Qxb8 37. Bxb8 1-0 [Event "Match"]
[Site "Lodz (Poland)"]
[Date "1913.??.??"]
[Round "7"]
[White "Salwe Georg"]
[Black "Bogoljubow Efim (GER)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D00"]
[PlyCount "85"]
[EventDate "1913.??.??"]
1. d4 d5 2. c3 Nf6 3. Bf4 e6 4. e3 Bd6 5. Bg3 Ne4 6. Nd2 Nxg3 7. hxg3 c5 8. f4
Nc6 9. Ngf3 Bd7 10. Bd3 h6 11. Ne5 cxd4 12. exd4 Bxe5 13. fxe5 Qb6 14. Qb3 Qxb3
15. axb3 Ke7 16. b4 a6 17. Nf3 Raf8 18. Ke2 Be8 19. b5 axb5 20. Bxb5 Bd7 21.
Bxc6 Bxc6 22. Ra7 Ra8 23. Rha1 Rxa7 24. Rxa7 Kd7 25. g4 Kc7 26. Ke3 Be8 27. Ra8
Rg8 28. g5 h5 29. b3 Rf8 30. Ne1 Kd7 31. Nd3 Ke7 32. Nb4 Bd7 33. Ra7 Rb8 34. c4
dxc4 35. bxc4 f6 36. gxf6+ gxf6 37. c5 fxe5 38. c6 Kd6 39. cxd7 h4 40. Rxb7 Rd8
41. Nd3 e4 42. Ne5 Rf8 43. d8=Q+ 1-0 |
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Kibitzing
