Gersz (other)
Gersz is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Gersz Salwe (1862–1920), Polish chess player * Gersz Rotlewi (1889–1920), Polish chess player See also * Gersh (other) * Qirsh * Georg (given name) *George (given name) George () is a masculine given name derived from the Greek Geōrgios (; , ). The name gained popularity due to its association with the Christian martyr, Saint George (died 23 April 303), a member of the Praetorian Guard who was sentenced to dea ...

Gersz Salwe
Gersz Salwe (12 December 1862, Warsaw – 15 December 1920, Łódź), also written Salve, pl, Henryk Jerzy Salwe, italic=no, was a Polish chess master. Biography Salwe was born into a Jewish family in Warsaw (then Russian Empire). He was Szlama Zalman's son. He gained the knowledge about chess very early but started playing chess only at about 20 years old. In 1894, he settled in Łódź at Nowocegielniana Street 10. In 1897, Salwe took 2nd at the 1st Łódź Chess Championship. In 1898, he won a Łódź championship. 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 took 4th at Łódź (''Quadrangular''). In 1906, he took 3rd at Łódź (''Triangular''). In 1906, he tied for 6-7th at Nuremberg (15th DSB Congress, Frank James Marshall won). In 190 ...
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Gersz Rotlewi
Gersz (Georg, George, Gersh) Rotlewi (Rotlevi, Rotlevy) (1889 – 1920) was a Polish chess master. Biography In 1906, Rotlewi tied for 5-6th in Łódź (Akiba Rubinstein won). In 1907, he took 3rd, behind Rubinstein and Dawid Daniuszewski, in Lodz (''Quadrangular''), took 2nd, behind Heilmann, in Ostend (main class I section), and took 6th in Lodz (the 5th Russian Chess Championship; the event was won by Rubinstein). He took 4th in the Prague 1908 chess tournament (''Hauptturnier'', preliminary), tied for 1st with Daniuszewski at Lodz 1909, and took 2nd, behind Alexander Alekhine, at Saint Petersburg 1909 (the All-Russian Amateur tournament). Rotlewi played two matches against Gersz Salwe, losing in 1909 (+5 –8 =5) and winning in 1910 (+3 –1 =6). In 1910, he tied for 1st with Rubinstein in Warsaw and won in the Hamburg 1910 chess tournament (the 17th DSB Congress, ''Hauptturnier A''), which earned him the Master Title and the right to compete at the Carlsbad 1911 chess tou ...
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Gersh (other)
Gersh may refer to: *The Gersh Agency, a talent agency *Gersh College; see Daemen College ;Surname * Darren Gersh, American journalist, PBS's ''Nightly Business Report'' * Harry Gersh (1912-2001) American writer and historian * Squire Gersh (born 1913) American jazz tubist and double-bassist ;Given name *Gersh Budker (1918–1977), Soviet nuclear physicist *Gersh Kuntzman, American journalist See also *Gersz (other) Gersz is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Gersz Salwe (1862–1920), Polish chess player * Gersz Rotlewi (1889–1920), Polish chess player See also * Gersh (other) * Qirsh * Georg (given name) *George (given name) ... * Qirsh * Georg (other) * George (other) {{disambig ...
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Georg (given Name)
Georg is a male given name in mostly Northern European countries and may refer to: In creative culture * Georg, Baron von Ortzen, German poet and author * Georg Baselt, German actor * Georg Blomstedt, Swedish actor * Georg Böhm, German organist * Georg Büchner, German playwright * Georg Brandl Egloff, American composer * Georg Fabricius, Protestant German poet * Georg Gerster, Swiss photographer * George Frideric Handel (Georg Friederich Händel in German), German composer * Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, German poet * Georg Løkkeberg, Norwegian actor * Georg Maier, German actor and theatre director * Georg Listing, bassist for the German Rock Band Tokio Hotel * Georg Malmstén, Finnish singer, composer * Georg Matthias Monn, Austrian composer * Georg Muffat, French composer * Georg Ots, Estonian opera singer * Georg Solti, Hungarian conductor * Georg Stahlberg, Estonian opera singer and music pedagogue * Georg Stiernhielm, Swedish poet * Georg Philipp Telemann, German comp ...
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