Józef Dominik (10 March 1894 – 10 September 1920) was a Polish chess master.
Biography
Born in
Dobczyce
Dobczyce is a town in southern Poland, situated since 1999 in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship (previously in Kraków Voivodeship from 1975 to 1998). As of December 2021, the town has a population of 6,388.
There is a large dam with Lake Dobczyce ...
(western
Galicia), he was educated in
Kraków
, officially the Royal Capital City of Kraków, is the List of cities and towns in Poland, second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city has a population of 804,237 ...
(then
Austria-Hungary
Austria-Hungary, also referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Dual Monarchy or the Habsburg Monarchy, was a multi-national constitutional monarchy in Central Europe#Before World War I, Central Europe between 1867 and 1918. A military ...
). In his short chess career, he took 3rd at Cracow 1913 (Adolf Hauke won), took 2nd, behind
Alexander Flamberg at Cracow 1914, took 2nd at
Mannheim 1914 (''Hauptturnier B'', Rudniev won).
Dominik won at Vienna 1915 (''Quadrangular''), won at Cracow 1918, and took 5th at Warsaw 1919 (
Zdzisław Belsitzmann won).
[ Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's ''Chess Tournament Crosstables'', An Electronic Edition, Anders Thulin, Malmö, 2004-09-01]
He died after a battle of
Krasne (eastern Galicia) during the
Polish-Soviet War in 1920.
References
1894 births
1920 deaths
People from Myślenice County
Sportspeople from Lesser Poland Voivodeship
20th-century Polish chess players
20th-century Polish sportsmen
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