Grigory Helbach (also spelled Hellbach, Gelbach, or Gelbak) (13 January 1863,

Zvenyhorodka Zvenyhorodka (, ) is a city in Cherkasy Oblast, central Ukraine, situated on the Hnylyi Tikych River. The town is the administrative center of Zvenyhorodka Raion. It hosts the administration of Zvenyhorodka urban hromada, one of the hromadas ...

– 3 August 1930) was a Russian

chess Chess is a board game for two players. It is an abstract strategy game that involves Perfect information, no hidden information and no elements of game of chance, chance. It is played on a square chessboard, board consisting of 64 squares arran ...

master. He tied for 6-7th at Moscow 1899 (the 1st All-Russian Masters' Tournament,

Mikhail Chigorin Mikhail Ivanovich Chigorin (also ''Tchigorin''; ; – ) was a Russian chess player. He played two World Championship matches against Wilhelm Steinitz, losing both times. The last great player of the Romantic chess style, he also served as a ma ...

won), took 6th at St. Petersburg 1900 (Chigorin and Alexander Levin won), shared 1st with Sergey Lebedev at St. Petersburg 1901, took 7th at St. Petersburg 1902, shared 1st at St.Petersburg 1903, took 15th at St. Petersburg 1905/06 (the 4th RUS-ch,

Gersz Salwe Gersz Salwe (12 December 1862, Warsaw – 15 December 1920, Łódź), also written Salve, , was a Polish chess master. Biography Salwe was born into a Jewish family in Warsaw (then Russian Empire). He was Szlama Zalman's son. He gained the know ...

won), and tied for 15-16th at St. Petersburg 1909 (All-Russian Amateur Tournament,

Alexander Alekhine Alexander Aleksandrovich Alekhine. He disliked when Russians sometimes pronounced the of as , , which he regarded as a Yiddish distortion of his name, and insisted that the correct Russian pronunciation was . (March 24, 1946) was a Russian ...

won). He won a game against

Alexei Alekhine Alexei (Alexey) Alekhine (, ''Alekséy Aleksándrovich Alékhin'', 1888–1939) was a Russian chess master and the brother of World Chess Champion Alexander Alekhine. His father was a wealthy landowner, a Marshal of the Nobility and a member of ...

in a friendly team match St. Petersburg vs. Moscow (6:3) in 1911.

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* 1863 births 1930 deaths People from Cherkasy Oblast People from Kiev Governorate Ukrainian Jews Chess players from the Russian Empire Jewish chess players {{Russia-chess-bio-stub