Sammi Fajarowicz was a German chess

Chess

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 master.

Born into a Jewish family with Ukrainian roots. He played several times in Leipzig championships; took 3rd in 1928, took 2nd in 1929, shared 1st with Max Blümich

Max Blümich

Reinhold Max Blümich was a German chess master and editor.At the beginning of his chess career, he played in Leipzig where tied for 4-6th in 1909, took 8th in 1910, took 3rd in 1911, shared 1st in 1912, and took 5th in 1913.After World War I, he won or shared 1st at Mittwerda 1922, Frankfurt...

, but lost to him a play-off match (2.5–4.5) in 1930, and twice won in 1931 and 1933. He also took 5th at Bautzen 1929, tied for 12-13th at Zwickau 1930 (Karl Helling

Karl Helling

Karl Helling was a German chess master.In 1928, he shared 1st with Kurt Richter in the Berlin City Chess Championship, and won a play-off match for the title against him ....

 won), and took 5th at Frankfurt.

Fajarowicz took 4th at Great Yarmouth

Great Yarmouth

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 1935 (Samuel Reshevsky

Samuel Reshevsky

Samuel "Sammy" Herman Reshevsky was a famous chess prodigy and later a leading American chess Grandmaster...

 won). In Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany

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, he could play only in Jüdische Meisterschaft Deutschlands. He won twice those tournaments - at Leipzig 1935 (jointly with J. Mundsztuk and Simon Rotenstein

Simon Rotenstein

Simon Rotenstein was a German chess master.At the beginning of his career, he shared 2nd with Wilhelm Cohn, behind Carl Ahues, in Berlin championships in 1911, and won in Winterturnier des SK Springer the same year. He played in two friendly matches Berlin vs...

) and Frankfurt am Main 1937.

He had tried to escape from Germany but without success. Finally, he died in a Jewish Hospital in Leipzig (Leipziger Israelische Krankenhaus) because of tuberculosis

Tuberculosis

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.

His name is attached to the Fajarowicz Gambit in the Budapest Gambit (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e5 3.dxe5 Ne4!?).

Literature

• Alfred Diel: Fremdenpass Nr. 16. Das kurze Leben des Sächsischen Meisters Sammi Fajarowicz, in: Kaissiber 16/Januar-März 2001, S. 20-39.
• Alfred Diel/Stefan Bücker: Spurenlese: Sammi Fajarowicz, in: Kaissiber 16/Januar-März 2001, S. 41-57.
• [fr] Fajarowicz gambit by Dany Sénéchaud on Mieux jouer aux échecs

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