Artur Popławski (1860, in Warsaw – 1918, in Warsaw) was a Polish

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master. He started his studies at Imperial University of Warsaw (with a Russian language) in 1879, and moved to

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(''Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich'') in 1884. In 1883/84, he took second place, behind Józef Żabiński, in the

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City Chess Championship, scoring 19/22. In Switzerland, Poplawski twice shared first place with Max Pestalozzi in the

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, at

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in 1889 and at

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in 1890.svizzera
/ref> He returned to Warsaw in the early 1890s and worked as an engineer.

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1860 births 1918 deaths Expatriates in Switzerland Chess players from Warsaw 19th-century Polish chess players People from Congress Poland Chess players from the Russian Empire Expatriates from the Russian Empire {{Switzerland-chess-bio-stub