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Szymon Winawer

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209:, and did not place among the prizewinners. Winawer continued to play competitive chess into his 60s, and in his career he faced all of the top players from the last third of the 19th century, from 213:
to Lasker. His rivalry with Blackburne stretched from 1870 to 1901, and they met in competitive games in five consecutive decades. Winawer died in Warsaw on November 29, 1919, aged 81.
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After a long absence Winawer returned to chess in the 1890s, but by then he had been surpassed by younger players including
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At Warsaw 1868, Winawer won the first chess tournament conducted in Poland. He won an 1875 match in
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1883 he failed to place for the first time, but later that year at
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2–5. He turned 63 during his final international tournament,
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In one of his best known games, he beat Steinitz in
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Warsaw
Polish
chess
German Chess Championship
Paris 1867 tournament
Café de la Régence
Wilhelm Steinitz
Ignatz Von Kolisch
Saint Petersburg
Ilya Shumov
Johannes Zukertort
Joseph Henry Blackburne
George Henry Mackenzie
Berlin
Mikhail Chigorin
Vienna 1882
London
Nuremberg
3rd German Congress
Siegbert Tarrasch
Emanuel Lasker
Dresden
Budapest
Dawid Janowski
Monte Carlo 1901
Adolf Anderssen
opening
Winawer Variation
French Defence

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