Artur Popławski
Polish chess player
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| Intro | Polish chess player | |
| Places | Switzerland Poland | |
| was | Chess player | |
| Work field | Sports | |
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| Birth | 1 January 1860, Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland | |
| Death | 10 August 1918Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland (aged 58 years) |
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Artur Popławski (1860, in Warsaw – 1918, in Warsaw) was a Polish chess master.
He started his studies at Imperial University of Warsaw (with a Russian language) in 1879, and moved to ETH Zurich (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich) in 1884.
In 1883/84, he took second place, behind Józef Żabiński, in the Warsaw City Chess Championship, scoring 19/22. In Switzerland, Poplawski twice shared first place with Max Pestalozzi in the Swiss Chess Championship, at Zürich in 1889 and at Winterthur in 1890.
He returned to Warsaw in the early 1890s and worked as an engineer.