Gersz Salwe

Gersz Salwe (12 December 1862, Warsaw – 15 December 1920, Łódź), also written Salve, Polish: Henryk Jerzy Salwe, was a Polish chess master.

Salwe was born into a Jewish family in Warsaw (then Russian Empire).

In 1903, he took 4th at Kiev (All-Russian Masters' Tournament, 3rd RUS-ch, Mikhail Chigorin won).

Salwe reached a peak of his career in 1906, when he won at Sankt Petersburg (All-Russian Masters' Tournament, 4th RUS-ch), ahead of Benjamin Blumenfeld and Akiba Rubinstein.

In 1906, he tied for 6-7th at Nuremberg (15th DSB Congress, Frank James Marshall won).

In 1907/08, he tied for 3rd-4th with Eugene Znosko-Borovsky, behind Rubinstein and Simon Alapin, at Łódź (All-Russian Masters' Tournament, 5th RUS-ch).

The event (All-Russian Masters' Tournament, 6th RUS-ch) was won by Rubinstein.

In 1912, he took 10th at Vilna (All-Russian Masters' Tournament, 7th RUS-ch, Rubinstein won).

In 1913/14, he tied for 10-11th at Sankt Petersburg (All-Russian Masters' Tournament, 8th RUS-ch, Alexander Alekhine and Aron Nimzowitsch won).

He later fell ill of pneumonia and died in a little chamber of the maid Anatolye Karakusenkow.

Salwe was buried in the Jewish Cemetery in Łódź at Bracka Street (left side, section N, tomb no.