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David Janowski
Number of games in database: 744
Years covered: 1891 to 1926
Overall record: +327 -257 =158 (54.7%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.
      2 exhibition games, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 Queen's Pawn Game (76) 
    D02 A46 D00 D05 A40
 Ruy Lopez (58) 
    C67 C82 C66 C72 C71
 Queen's Gambit Declined (35) 
    D30 D37 D35 D31 D06
 Four Knights (34) 
    C49 C48 C47
 Orthodox Defense (34) 
    D53 D52 D60 D63 D55
 French Defense (16) 
    C11 C10 C12 C14 C00
With the Black pieces:
 Ruy Lopez (84) 
    C87 C84 C79 C77 C67
 Orthodox Defense (32) 
    D63 D60 D51 D62 D61
 Ruy Lopez, Closed (30) 
    C87 C84 C88
 Four Knights (29) 
    C49 C48 C47
 Queen's Gambit Declined (28) 
    D31 D37 D30 D35
 Queen's Pawn Game (26) 
    A46 D04 D05 D02 D00
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NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   Janowski vs Gruenfeld, 1925 1/2-1/2
   Janowski vs Ed Lasker, 1924 1/2-1/2
   Janowski vs Alapin, 1905 1-0
   Janowski vs Samisch, 1925 1-0
   Janowski vs NN, 1895 1-0
   Janowski vs Schlechter, 1899 1-0
   Janowski vs Tarrasch, 1905 1-0
   Janowski vs E Schallopp, 1896 1-0
   Janowski vs Steinitz, 1895 1-0
   Janowski vs Lasker, 1909 1-0

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS: [what is this?]
   Lasker-Janowski World Championship Match (1910)

GAME COLLECTIONS: [what is this?]
   Vienna 1898 by suenteus po 147
   Ostend 1905 by suenteus po 147
   London 1899 by suenteus po 147
   Janowski's "Jans" by capanegra
   99_Ostende A 1907 (Champion Tourn. to play Laske by whiteshark
   David Janowsky's exchange sacrifices by Karpova
   Cambridge Springs 1904 by suenteus po 147
   Monte Carlo 1901 by suenteus po 147

GAMES ANNOTATED BY JANOWSKI: [what is this?]
   Janowski vs Steel, 1893

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DAVID JANOWSKI
(born Jun-07-1868, died Jan-15-1927) Poland (citizen of France)

[what is this?]
David Janowski was born in 1868 in Wolkowysk, Poland, but soon relocated to France. His chess career began in Paris, and in the late 1890's he started recieving a steady stream of invitations to international events. He finished in third place in the Vienna tournament of 1898 and second at London the following year. For the next twenty years he was a consistent participant in major tournaments, and in 1909 he played a ten-game training match with World Champion Emanuel Lasker. He had drawn a shorter exhibition match with Lasker just months before, but in the ten-game match he lost by the score of +1 =2 -7. Two years later, he managed to secure enough financial backing for a World Championship match, but lost this one also. The Janowski Indian opening is: 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 d6 3. Nc3 Bf5.

 page 1 of 30; games 1-25 of 744  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves Year Event/LocaleOpening
1. Janowski vs A Goetz 1-031 1891 ParisC54 Giuoco Piano
2. Sittenfild vs Janowski  0-134 1892 Paris itD02 Queen's Pawn Game
3. Janowski vs Steel 1-026 1893 Paris,D37 Queen's Gambit Declined
4. Von Scheve vs Janowski  0-133 1894 09.DSB-KongressC30 King's Gambit Declined
5. Janowski vs Schiffers  0-143 1894 09.DSB-KongressB40 Sicilian
6. Janowski vs Lipke 0-137 1894 09.DSB-KongressC47 Four Knights
7. H Suechting vs Janowski  1-054 1894 09.DSB-KongressD30 Queen's Gambit Declined
8. Janowski vs Teichmann 1-031 1894 09.DSB-KongressC14 French, Classical
9. J W Baird vs Janowski  1-061 1894 09.DSB-KongressC76 Ruy Lopez, Modern Steinitz Defense, Fianchetto Variation
10. Janowski vs Mieses 1-026 1894 09.DSB-KongressB06 Robatsch
11. A Zinkl vs Janowski 0-146 1894 09.DSB-KongressC72 Ruy Lopez, Modern Steinitz Defense, 5.O-O
12. Janowski vs J Mason  1-055 1894 09.DSB-KongressC67 Ruy Lopez
13. K Walbrodt vs Janowski 1-013 1894 09.DSB-KongressC71 Ruy Lopez
14. Janowski vs J N Berger  1-036 1894 09.DSB-KongressC67 Ruy Lopez
15. Tarrasch vs Janowski  1-033 1894 09.DSB-KongressD37 Queen's Gambit Declined
16. Janowski vs K De Weydlich 1-029 1894 09.DSB-KongressC10 French
17. G Marco vs Janowski 0-147 1894 Leipzig GottschallC49 Four Knights
18. Janowski vs Blackburne 1-045 1894 LeipzigC62 Ruy Lopez, Old Steinitz Defense
19. Schlechter vs Janowski  ½-½72 1894 09.DSB-KongressC72 Ruy Lopez, Modern Steinitz Defense, 5.O-O
20. Janowski vs P K Seuffert 1-022 1894 09.DSB-KongressC65 Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense
21. W Pollock vs Janowski ½-½46 1895 HastingsC44 King's Pawn Game
22. Mieses vs Janowski  1-033 1895 Paris mC25 Vienna
23. Janowski vs Mieses 1-033 1895 Paris mC46 Three Knights
24. Schiffers vs Janowski  1-073 1895 HastingsC76 Ruy Lopez, Modern Steinitz Defense, Fianchetto Variation
25. Mieses vs Janowski 0-141 1895 Paris mC25 Vienna
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Aug-09-06   Maroczy: What does Byrne know? And I don't care what Byrne thinks; I like players with jajki:).
Jan-08-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  notyetagm: Any Janowski fan know the game in which he played a beautiful mating combination with a final mating position similar to this one?


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This position comes from a variation of the game Kasparov v Epishin 1995.

I believe that Janowski played his version in a famous tournament from early last century. I solved it once but don't remember all the details. Thanks.

May-21-07   sadmadbadcad: <notyetagm> The game you refer to is, I think Janowski vs Schlechter, 1899
Jun-06-07   wolfmaster: Question: Does Janowski have a plus or even score against any of these early 20th century masters? 1. Marshall
2.Maroczy
3.Nimzowitsch
4. Capablanca
5. Alekhine
6. Schlechter
7.Vidmar
8.Ahues
9.Bogoljubow
10.Burn
11.Tartakower
12.Pillsbury
13.Charousek
14.Tarrasch
15.Samisch
16.Gruenfeld
17. Rubinstein
18.Reti
19.Spielmann
20.Euwe
Thanks!
Jun-06-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  keypusher: Courtesy of gypsy's post on the page for the Lasker-Janowsky WC match, here are Janowsky's results against a bunch of players:

<J-Steinitz 5:3 =0
J-Chigorin 13:5 =6
J-Gunsberg 3:1 =1
J-Winawer 5:0 =0
J-Burn 10:3 =2
J-Blackburne 6:2 =4
J-Marco 12:4 =6

And he also faded rather fast

J-Tarrasch 6:9 =3
J-Lasker 4:24 =7
J-Pillsbury 4:6 =2
J-Maroczy 5:10 =5
J-Schlechter 12:20 =9
J-Marshall 24:34 =16

J-Duras 1:3 =0
J-Bernstein 0:2 =2
J-Rubinstein 3:5 =0
J-Spielmann 2:4 =1
J-Nimzowich 0:3 =2

J-Capablanca 1:9 =1
J-Alekhine 2:4 =2
J-Reti 0:4 =1 >

Jun-07-07   blackburne: Article in spanish of David Janowski in the section of romantic chess players, in the web "Ajedrez de ataque"

JANOWSKI:

http://www.ajedrezdeataque.com/04%2...

OTHER PLAYERS:

http://www.ajedrezdeataque.com/04%2...

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Jun-07-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  Peligroso Patzer: <fred lennox: That he said he didn't like endgames i take with a grain of salt. Maybe he didn't love endgames but he was quite good at it.>

Interestingly, the first game listed among his "Notable Games": Janowski vs Gruenfeld, 1925 features a half-point swindle in an endgame.

Aug-18-07   get Reti: I like watching Janowski's games because he develops all of his pieces (including both rooks and queen) before starting an attack. For example, in the queen's gambit, he plays both Rac1, Rfd1, and Qe2 before playing a move such as Ne5.
Oct-04-07   DanielBryant: According to Soltis, his first name is Dawid, not David.
Jan-03-08   Manic: <DanielBryant> I think it's the same name, just different spellings. Lawrence points out that Janowski and Daniel Yanofsky have the same surname but are just spelt differently. Janowski's surname is also sometimes spelt Janowsky.
Feb-26-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  Knight13: <Janowski's surname is also sometimes spelt Janowsky.> That's how Silman spelled it in one of his books.
May-15-08   MUNGOMYERS: hi was wondering if anyone has the book janowski artist of the chessboard and if so what is the book like thanks
May-16-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  Knight13: Chessmetrics Player Profile: David Janowski
Born: 1868-Jun
Died: 1927-Jan

Best World Rank: #1 (5 different months between the May 1904 rating list and the September 1904 rating list )

Highest Rating: 2776 on the July 1904 rating list, #1 in world, age 36y1m

Best Individual Performance: 2811 in London, 1899, scoring 15.5/22 (70%) vs 2674-rated opposition

Jun-07-08   sneaky pete: It isn't particularly attractive, to write about the representative of France. (...) Why is it no pleasant task, to introduce you to Janowski? Because the odds are ten to one, that the new acquaintance will not particularly please you! Janowski, although tiré à quatre épingles(1) dressed, is not highly regarded by his colleagues and with the public as well his popularity reaches not much highher than his high hat and his gold-rimmed spectacles.

The reason of this is the unpleasant arrogance that he permits himself towards everyone. In each game, that Janowski loses, he has vollständig überspielt(2) his adversary, and only in the end, when the game really had been won already, verpatzt(3). (See kibitz on page Tarrasch vs Janowski, 1895)

But the funniest moment was, when Janowski in the penultimate round had won a most miserable "quickie" against Tschigorin (see Chigorin vs Janowski, 1895).

"Jetzt will", Georg Marco said, "der ekelhafte Mensch nicht einmal mehr mit mir reden. Er denkt sich da etwas riesiges geleistet zu haben und außer dem Brilliancy-Preis noch die Unsterblichkeit gewonnen zu haben. Was wollen Sie dagegen erfinden, bitte?"(4)

Janowski is still very young and a player of undoubtedly great and original talent. If only he wouldn't imagine to be a master of the first rank already, there could be no reason, why in time he couldn't become one.

(1) immaculately
(2) completely outplayed
(3) botched up
(4) "Now the horrible fellow won't even talk to me. He thinks, he has pulled off something big and has, in addition to the brilliancy prize, gained immortality. What do you have to say to that, please?"

Norman Van Lennep in Tijdschrift van den Nederlandschen Schaakbond, 1895.

Jul-18-08   myschkin: Chess master and addicted gambler. In 1901 he won an international tournament at Monte Carlo and lost all his first place money in the casino the same evening the tournament ended. The casino management had to buy his ticket home. In another event he handed his money to a friend and made him promise not to return it until after the chess tournament. However, the lure of gambling proved too strong and he begged for the return of his money. His friend refused. Janowski was so infuriated that he sued his friend. Janowski had a chess patron, the Dutch painter Leo Nardus who, for many years, supported him in chess. He lost his support when Janowski called Nardus a chess idiot when Nardu suggested an alternate move during an analysis of one of Janowski's games. Janowski was famous for his complaints which served as alibis when he lost. At one tournament every one of his requests was granted and for the first he had nothing to complain about. When he lost the tournament he said, "You have deprived me of any alibi. How did you expect me to play good chess?" Janowski died penniless in a nursing home in Hyeres, France. A subscription was raised to prevent his being buried in a pauper's grave.
Aug-19-08   TheNige: The book that "Resignation Trap" mentioned is called "David Yanovsky" and has 175 games of the Polish-French player. The authors of the book, which was published in 1987, were S. Voronkov and D. Plisetsky. The notation is long algebraic.
Sep-03-08   GrahamClayton: Janowski was one of only 2 players (Tarrasch was the other) to defeat the first 4 world champions (Steinitz, Lasker, Capablanca & Alekhine)
Oct-09-08   Petrosianic: <I find it sad that Janowski could always rely on Mr. Nardus for his operations on and outside the chessboard, whereas the likes of Schlechter and Rubinstein were barely capable of holding their heads above the water level.>

Not always. At some point Janowski and Nardus parted ways, after Janowski called him an idiot or something for asking a dumb question about a game. I have no idea when that was, exactly.

Oct-10-08   FHBradley: <Petrosianic:> "Janowski had a chess patron, the Dutch painter Leo Nardus, who supported him in chess for many years. One day Nardus suggested an alternate move during a postmortem of one of Janowski's games. Janowski called Nardus an idiot in front of a crowd of people. Nardus never gave Janowski any financial support after that." from http://www.geocities.com/SiliconVal...; I don't know if this source is reliable or not.
Oct-23-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  keypusher: Classic Janowski: I just got the London 1899 tournament book (the Hardinge Simpole facsimile reprint of the original). The book lists the games submitted for consideration for the brilliancy prizes. Lasker, Blackburne and Bird submitted two each; Showalter submitted one; Pillsbury, Schlechter, Chigorin, etc. didn't submit any. Janowski submitted six! But I have to admit, there are some very attractive games in there.

Janowski vs Schlechter, 1899

Janowski vs W Cohn, 1899

Janowski vs Chigorin, 1899

Janowski vs Pillsbury, 1899

W Cohn vs Janowski, 1899

Janowski vs Maroczy, 1899

No doubt to Janowski's disgust, the brilliancy prizes went to Lasker and Blackburne.

Steinitz vs Lasker, 1899

Lasker vs Blackburne, 1899

Bird nominated this game for a prize, though there is nothing to commend it that I can see, other than the identity of the loser:

Janowski vs Bird, 1899

Jan-04-09   WhiteRook48: <wolfmaster> can't you just put "Janowski- (other player)" in the main chessgames page? because I think that works.
Jan-21-09   Cactus: Janowski is #1 according to chessmetrics, around 1904. Personally, I don't think that could be true, believing him more of a top-ten range sort of player.
Feb-14-09   WhiteRook48: Maybe Janowski is #5
Mar-20-09   masterwojtek: He had to be jewish
Aug-03-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  Chessical: Janowski's patron, the art dealer Leo Nardus, was accused of selling misattributed or even forged works to wealthy Americans.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/...

Born Leo Salomon, he had his surname legally changed to Nardus. Perhaps he did this wrap himself in the cachet of famous Dutch artists such as: Salomon <Leonardus> Verveer,(1813-1876), and Johannes Hubertus <Leonardus> de Haas (1832-1908)?

Nardus was reputably a technically capable artist, and also a proficient swordsman who was an Olympic fencer for Holland (1912).

He painted portraits of several grandmasters, including Emanuel Lasker and Frank Marshall. Some of them are reproduced here:

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

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