Oskar Piotrowski, was a Polish

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master. In 1902, he played in several chess tournaments in

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; took 2nd, behind Eduard Dyckhoff, in the Berlin ''Finckenschaft-Turnier'', tied for 4-5th in the Café Kerkau Free Tournament (

Curt von Bardeleben Curt Carl Alfred von Bardeleben (4 March 1861 – 31 January 1924) was a German chess master, journalist, and member of the German nobility. Biography Curt von Bardeleben started playing chess when he was ten years old and quickly developed into ...

won), lost a game to Ranneforth in a match Anderssen Chess Club vs. Berlin Finckenschaft Club, tied for 2nd-3rd with Erich Cohn, behind

Ossip Bernstein Ossip Samoilovich Bernstein (20 September 1882 – 30 November 1962) was a Russian-French chess player and businessman. He was one of the inaugural recipients of the title International Grandmaster from FIDE in 1950. Biography Born in Zhytomyr, ...

, in the Berlin Summer Tournament - Section I (''Quadrangular''), and shared 2nd with

Moritz Lewitt Moritz Lewitt (12 August 1863 – 1 April 1936) was a German chess master. Born in Poznań, Kingdom of Prussia, he lived in Berlin, and was the longtime president of the oldest German Chess Club, the ''Berliner Schachgesellschaft von 1827''. Wh ...

, behind Bernstein, in the 1st Tournament of the General Chess Federation of Berlin. In that year, he took 20th in

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in the 13th

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(''Hauptturnier A'', Walter John won). He won twice in the

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City championship in 1912 and 1914. After

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, he was one of the leading Lviv chess masters, along with

Ignatz von Popiel Ignatz (Ignaz, Ignacy) von Popiel (27 July 1863 – 2 May 1941) was a Polish-Ukrainian chess player. Biography Born into a noble family in Drohobych, Galicia (then Austria-Hungary), he began study law at the University of Graz (''Karl-Franzens ...

, Kalikst Morawski, and

Henryk Friedman Henryk Friedman (Friedmann) (1903–1942) was a Polish chess master. He lived in Lviv (Lwów, Lemberg). In 1926–1934, Friedman won seven times in succession the Championship of Lviv but 1930, when he took 2nd place behind Stepan Popel. Friedman ...

. He took 4th in Lviv-ch in 1929 ( Stepan Popel won), and won at Lviv 1933 (LKSzach). An engineer Oskar Piotrowski was a delegate from Lviv at a meeting held in

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on April 11, 1926, to establish the Polish Chess Federation (PZSzach). He was a member of the board of the federation in the period from 1926 to 1935. He was a double-ganger of

Ostap Ortwin Ostap Ortwin (real name Oskar Katzenellenbogen) (born 23 November 1876; murdered in spring 1942 in Lwów) was a Polish Jewish journalist and literary critic. He was born in Tłumacz, near Stanisławów (now Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine). His father, ...

.Józef Wittlin, ''Mój Lwów''
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