Rudolf Swiderski

Rudolf Swiderski ( born August 28, 1878 in Leipzig, † August 2, 1909 ) was a German chess master.

Swiderski was the son of the factory owner Philip Swiderski. He attended from 1892 to 1894 the Royal High School of his native city. In addition to the game of chess, he studied music. In 1896 he joined the chess society Augustea at Leipzig. In the same year he played his first tournament at the DSB Congress in Eisenach. However, in the groups main tournament he did not progress beyond the first round. However, he won in Munich in 1900 in the main event A with 17 points from 21 games and so won the Masters dignity of the German Chess Federation.

Swiderski was one of the most promising German chess champion in 1902 and 1908. His greatest successes were the victory in the Masters tournament of the German Chess Federation in Coburg 1904 ( shared with Curt von Bardeleben and Carl Schlechter ) and the Rice Gambit tournament Monte Carlo 1904 ( shared with Frank James Marshall). In 1905 he was in the B tournament of the Barmen Chess Congress Second. Swiderski had recorded victories against many of his time, he suggested, among other things 1907 international tournament of Ostend ( he did not land among the winners ) both Akiba Rubinstein and Joseph Henry Blackburne.

Swiderski took place in August 1909, the life. According to the German chess magazine Swiderski suffered from a disease which he had been deprived by suicide ( " On August 12, Swiderski different from our own resolution from life. Dissatisfied with his living conditions and ravaged by disease, he pulled the death of a necessitated surgery In fact, before. " ), there is confusion about the exact date and circumstances surrounding death.

His best subsequently calculated historical Elo rating with a value of 2629 reached Swiderski in April 1904.