Casimir (Kasimir, Kazimierz) de Weydlich (4 August 1859 – 17 September 1913) was a Polish

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master. Born into an aristocratic family in Skotyniany, near Kamenets Podolskiy, he began his chess career in the early 1880s. He tied for 5-6th at the 2nd Warsaw City Championship in 1883/84, but won an individual game against Józef Żabiński, the winner of the event. Then he took 16th at Leipzig 1894 (the 9th

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won by

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), and won a mini-match against

Jean Taubenhaus Jean (Jan) Taubenhaus (14 December 1850, in Warsaw – 14 September 1919, in Paris) was a Polish–born French chess master. Biography Taubenhaus was a foremost Warsaw chess player in late 1870s. In 1880, he settled in Paris. In the 4th inter ...

(2 : 0) at Warsaw 1898. Count de Weydlich was a co-founder of the ''Lwowski Klub Szachistów'' (The Lemberg Chess Club) in

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(Lviv, Lemberg),

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(then

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), in November 1894. He played in several tournaments in Lemberg; took 3rd in 1895, shared 2nd in 1896 (both won by

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), took 4th in 1904 (Emil Gross won), and tied for 4-5th in 1912 ( Oskar Piotrowski won). His best achievement was the second prize at

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correspondence tournament in 1897. He died in Lemberg in 1913.

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External links

Chessgames.com - Kasimir De Weydlich
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