Karpova: Interesting article on G. G. Bartoszkiewicz by Adam Umiastowski and Tomas Lissowski: http://www.astercity.net/~vistula/b...First the pronounciation of his name: <BAR-TOSH-KEVICH>
The first game against Akiva was probably rather played in 1901 or 1902 though it needn't have been their first encounter.
They write: <He took part in, as a minimum, 3 correspondence chess tournaments of "Shakhmatny Zhurnal" (the fifth, sixth and seventh); in the latter he shared 1-2 places with A. I. Romashkevich (Romaszkiewicz?) of Kharkov (both 18,5 points out of 22 games), they followed Saburov (well know chess organiser, 17,5 p.), Koslaninov (14 p.), Prince Urusov (13 p.) and Kolenko (12,5 p.), participated also Berens, Shabelsky, Khmelevsky, Kugaievsky, Severov and Pshetslavsky.>
He is usually assumed to have been polish and is being called <Engineer Bartoszkiewicz>. Though there was an important railway junction at Starosielce (near Bialystok), no traces of a Bartoszkiewicz there were found by amateur historian Krzysztof Oblocki so he was probably no railway employee.