Savielly Tartakower (also known as Xavier or Ksawery Tartakower, less often Tartacover or Tartakover; 21 February 1887 – 4 February 1956) was a Austro-Hungarian by birth, then Polish, later naturalised …

Nov 1, 2025 · After examining Capablanca’s win over Lasker at the recent New York tournament, Tartakower concluded: ‘Capablanca is the master of masters, who has been able to unite the …

GM Savielly Tartakower was a Polish-French chess player and one of the 27 grandmasters first awarded the title in 1950. Tartakower won the national championship for both of his adopted …

Biography, game analysis and puzzles from the life and games of Savielly Tartakower, one of the world's strongest players in the 1920s.

2/24/2022 – Savielly Tartakower was an elite master throughout his career of nearly half a century. Although he never quite reached the chess summit, he is remembered fondly as a colorful figure who …

Savielly Tartakower, born in 1887 in Rostov-on-Don, was a Polish-French grandmaster who became one of the most influential chess figures of the early 20th century.

Tartakower took part in many of the most important chess tournaments of his day. In 1927 and 1928 he won two tournaments in Hastings and shared first place with Aron Nimzowitsch in London. On the …

Tartakower was the captain and trainer of the Polish Chess Team in six international tournaments and won a gold medal for Poland at the Hamburg Olympiad in 1930.

Savielly Grigorievich Tartakower (1887-1956) — the Polish-French grandmaster, wit, author, and leading chess thinker of the first half of the 20 th century.

Born in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, Tartakover, a lawyer, spent most of his life as a chess player, living in France. In World War ii he served in the Free French Forces. After the war he represented France in …