Misplaced Pages

Jerzy Lewi (22 April 1949, Wrocław – 30 October 1972, Lund) was a Polish chess master.

He won five-times Polish Junior championships in 1965–1969. He took 3rd, behind Anatoly Karpov and Andras Adorjan, at Groningen 1967 (European Junior Championship). In 1968, he tied for 2nd-5th in Łódź (25th Polish Championship). In 1969, he won in Lublin (26th POL-ch). He took 12th at Athens 1969 (zonal; Milan Matulović won), and had decided to stay in the West. As a refugee, because of the 1968 Polish political crisis, he lived in Sweden where he died in a traffic accident in Lund. He was buried in a Jewish cemetery in Malmö.

See also

• List of Eastern Bloc defectors

References

1. Anne Sunnucks, The Encyclopaedia of Chess, second edition, p. 524.
2. "Jerzy Lewi, końcówka". Archived from the original on 2008-07-06. Retrieved 2009-10-13.

This biographical article relating to a Polish chess figure is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

• 1949 births
• 1972 deaths
• 20th-century Polish Jews
• Chess players from Wrocław
• Jewish chess players
• Polish refugees
• 20th-century Polish chess players
• 20th-century Polish sportsmen
• Road incident deaths in Sweden
• Polish chess biography stubs