Sammi Fajarowicz
Sammi Fajarowicz ( born June 5, 1908 in Möckern ( now a district of Leipzig), † July 4, 1940 in Leipzig ) was a German chess master.
Life
Fajarowicz ' parents came from Galicia and Kiev. His father was a businessman in leather goods. Fajarowicz made mid-1920s, his high school, but left him as a result of the economic decline of his father studying denied. He instead took on various odd jobs. After the seizure of Nazi German citizenship was the Fajarowicz ' withdrawn and they were a stranger pass, further reprisals followed. For financial reasons, an emigration of the Jewish family was not possible., 1938, Sammi Fajarowicz to France, was recorded there for illegal labor absorption, remained between January 1939 and March 1940 in a psychiatric hospital in Luxembourg and was reported again to Germany. Once in Leipzig, he was admitted to the Leipzig Israelite Hospital and died in July 1940 of tuberculosis.
Chess career
Fajarowicz learned together with his twin brother Edi already in early childhood chess. As a 20 -year-old Sammi Fajarowicz was one of the strongest chess players in Saxony. In 1928 he was at the Leipzig Cup Third 1929 second behind Max Blümich, 1930 he ended the winning group of the championship tournament on points with Blümich, but lost the subsequent playoff with 1:3 at 3 draws. In the same year he participated in the 18th Congress of the Saxon outstandingly occupied Chess Federation participate in Zwickau, whose master tournament of Karl Helling before Salo Flohr, Max Blümich, Karl Gilg, Jacques Lousy and Friedrich Palitzsch was recovered. 1931 and 1933 he won the Championship in Leipzig. After the seizure of the NSDAP Fajarowicz was excluded because of his " race" from participation in the German Cup tournaments. Fajarowicz in 1935 in Great Yarmouth in an international tournament, which was won by Samuel Reshevsky, and finished fourth. In December 1935, he finished in the first Jewish Cup in Germany, which took place in Leipzig, the split 1st to 3rd place, the title " Jewish chess master " was not awarded. In Frankfurt he won uncontested, and was " Jewish chess champion of Germany for 1937".
Theory contribution
After Fajarowicz the Fajarowicz Gambit is named, the first public Fajarowicz was to use in a game at a tournament in 1928 in Wiesbaden against Herman Steiner. Fajarowicz lost the game though, but he had achieved a promising position, which has been studied in more of different theorists.