Aug-15-03
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| AgentRgent: David Przepiorka (1880-1942?) was a Polish master and composer who was active in the first part of this century. His best result was when he came 1st at Munich in 1926 ahead of Bogoljubow and Spielmann. He played in two Olympiads, Hamburg 1930 and Prague in 1931. In 1942 he was arrested by German soldiers, while attending a meeting of the Warsaw chess circle. He died soon afterwards in a concentration camp. Fred Reinfeld, the famous American writer dedicated his book, The Unknown Alekhine to his memory and to other chess masters who died in the Holocaust. http://members.aol.com/brigosling/p... |
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| Aug-16-03 |
| uponthehill: I've read that friends of Przepiorka and Polish resistance asked desperatly Bogoljubov, who was working in Nazi administration of General Governorship during those sad days to do something to rescue Przepiorka from Gestapo's chamber. Boljubov did nothing to help. |
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| Aug-16-03 |
| Sylvester: Were a bunch of famous GMs nazi collaborators? |
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| Aug-17-03 |
| PVS: <Were a bunch of famous GMs nazi collaborators?> Alekhine, Bugoljubov, Keres and Sämisch were the four top players who participated regularly in tournaments in occupied Europe. |
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| Oct-24-03 |
| uponthehill: Also Petrov did. |
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| Mar-06-04 |
| WMD: <<I've read that friends of Przepiorka and Polish resistance asked desperatly Bogoljubov, who was working in Nazi administration of General Governorship during those sad days to do something to rescue Przepiorka from Gestapo's chamber. Boljubov did nothing to help.>> Really? And where did you read that? |
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| Mar-06-04 |
| WMD: <<Also Petrov did.>> Really? Which ones? |
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| Mar-06-04 |
| Lawrence: Francisco Lupi on Alekhine: One afternoon I asked him how it was that he received so many privileges from the Germans and in German-occupied countries. He revealed that this arose from an old acquaintance with the notorious Dr. Frank, the Nuremberg war criminal, who was a chess enthusiast and had one of the most complete chess libraries Alekhine had ever seen. "And was Dr. Frank kind to you?" "Yes, in the beginning he showed great generosity toward me. But later he began to show signs of suspicion, especially after he knew about a comment I had made on the execution of Przepiorka, a Jewish player who had gone into a Prague cafe verboten to Jews." And Alekhine added nervously: "Maybe some of my colleagues do not understand that I had to act discreetly if I wanted to stay alive." |
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| Feb-12-05 |
| MidnightDuffer: Chigorin vs Przpiorka, 1906
One would think, that this is Przepiorka and the time line coincides with the 1906 games in Nuremberg. |
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| May-08-05 |
| perfidious: Lupi's comments on Alekhine are most interesting; after the war, Euwe chastised Alekhine for not interceding on behalf of Przepiorka and Salo Landau, another Polish Jew. This is the only reference I've seen to Bogolyubov's activities during the war years, other than his participation in war-time events; is it possible that he too felt in danger, should he try acting in behalf of Przepiorka? |
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| Dec-08-05 |
| JG7: check out the game Przepiorka v L. Steiner Debrecen 1925 it has a nice finish. I picked this game randomly so there must be other gems in this collection. |
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| Dec-08-05 |
| WTHarvey: Here are some crucial positions from David's games: http://www.wtharvey.com/prze.html |
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Dec-08-05
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| Resignation Trap: Here's a photo of the Player of the Day: http://www.kwabc.com/Bilder/Graf-Ar... . |
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| May-25-06 |
| BIDMONFA: David Przepiorka PRZEPIORKA, David
http://www.bidmonfa.com/przepiorka_...
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| May-25-06 |
| itz2000: Sad story of a GM who died cause of blind hate by the Nazis, like all the jews who died in WW2. R.I.P. |
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| May-25-06 |
| kvcs: User: itz2000 , thank you for your kind and thoughtful post! Shalom, Molly |
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| May-25-06 |
| Alyosha: Przepiorka is best remembered for his compositions, as he was a brilliant problem composer. I'll try to track down some of them and post them here in a few days. (can anyone tell me how to put a chess diagram in the post?) |
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May-25-06
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| WannaBe: <alyosha> FEN Help Page |
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| Dec-22-06 |
| Albertan: According to my chessbase database David Przepiorka came in second at Gyor 1924(behind Geza Nagy),he also came in second at Hastings 1924 (he lost first on a tie-break to Steiner),he came in second at Merano 1926 (he had a better tie-break than Spielmann...Colle won the tournament),
he also came in second in the 1928 World Amateur Chess Championship Tournament (behind Max Euwe defeating Euwe in their individual game ). |
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| Dec-22-06 |
| Tomlinsky: An endgame study from a man who gave much to the game and was brushed aside by pure evil. He lives on regardless.
click for larger viewWhite to play and win |
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Dec-22-06
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| cu8sfan: <Dec-08-05 Resignation Trap: Here's a photo of the Player of the Day> It always surprises me that with how many? 10,000? players in the database, some get randomly chosen over and over again for PotD. Maybe I should make a statistic. It will probably prove that it's not surprising at all... |
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Dec-26-06
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| Peligroso Patzer: <Tomlinsky: An endgame study from a man who gave much to the game and was brushed aside by pure evil. He lives on regardless.> I was just checking back to see if a solution had been posted (not yet, apparently). I have only had a few minutes to look at the starting position for this study during the past several days, but the idea of 1. Rxg8 Nxg8 2. g6 seems as if it should win. I will spend some more time on it when I get the chance, and check back in a few days hoping to find that a solution has been provided by then. Przepiorka was indeed a very fine player, and, as you note, another tragic victim of the Holocaust. |
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Dec-22-07
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| Karpova: A picture: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... |
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| Jul-18-08 |
| myschkin: Rest in Peace <Dawid Przepiórka>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmiry |
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Sep-21-08
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| Karpova: Some interesting information from C.N. 5768:
> Przepiorka taught himself how to play chess at the age of 7 (no family memeber knew the rules of chess) > He was already a chess prodigy at the age of 9
> In 1891 his name was first mentioned in a competition for solvers > At the age of 12 he beat Jean Taubenhaus in excellent style but sadly the gamescore was not preserved Source: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... |
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