Salomon Langleben was a Polish chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 master.

He lived for many years in the United States of America. In 1894 he won in Buffalo. At the end of 19th century, he returned to Poland.

He won, ahead of Alexander Flamberg

Alexander Flamberg

Alexander Flamberg was a Polish chess master.-Biography:Alexander Davidovich Flamberg born in Warsaw , spent his early years in England, where he learnt to play chess. After return to Warsaw, he became one of the strongest Polish chess players. In 1900, he took 2nd, behind Salomon Langleben, in...

, at Warsaw 1900. He took 4th at Warsaw 1908 (Quadrangular, Simon Alapin won); took 2nd, behind Akiba Rubinstein

Akiba Rubinstein

Akiba Kiwelowicz Rubinstein was a famous Polish chess Grandmaster at the beginning of the 20th century. He was scheduled to play a match with Emanuel Lasker for the world championship in 1914, but it was cancelled because of the outbreak of World War I...

, at Warsaw 1909; took 3rd at Warsaw 1910 (Flamberg won); tied for 4-5th at Sankt Petersburg 1911 (Stepan Levitsky

Stepan Levitsky

Stepan Levitsky was a Russian chess master and national chess champion....

 won); took 4th at Warsaw 1911/12 (Rubinstein won); tied for 4-5th at Łódź 1912 (Efim Bogoljubow

Efim Bogoljubow

Efim Dmitriyevich Bogolyubov was a Russo-German chess grandmaster who won numerous events and played two matches with Alexander Alekhine for the world championship.-Early career:...

 won); tied for 8-10th at Vilna 1912 (B tourn, Karel Hromadka

Karel Hromádka

Karel Hromádka was a Czech chess player, two-time Czech champion, 1913 and 1921 ....

 won); tied for 4-5th at Sankt Petersburg 1913 (Alexander Evensohn

Alexander Evensohn

Alexandr Moyseyevich Evensohn was a Russian chess master.-Biography:In 1909, Evensohn took 7th at Kiev. The event was won by Nikolaev. In 1911, he took 3rd, behind Efim Bogoljubow and Izbinsky, at Kiev. In 1911, he took 4th at Kiev. The event was won by Fedor Bohatirchuk...

won); took 2nd at Warsaw 1917.

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