David Przepiorka

Dawid Przepiórka [pʃɛpjurka] (born December 22, 1880 in Warsaw; † after January 1940 in Palmiry) was a Polish chess master, chess patron and endgame study composer

Chessplayer and chess composer 

Best Elo rating 2612 on September 1929, (historical Elo rating)

Life
Przepiórka grew up in very wealthy circumstances. As a young man he studied mathematics in Warsaw, Munich and Göttingen. During his time as a student in Munich, he became acquainted with chess composition, a field in which he later became the creator of highly acclaimed works.

A first collection of his tasks appeared in 1911 in the Festschrift of the Academic Chess Club in Munich, and in 1932 David Przepiórka, a Master of Strategy by Henri Weenink, appeared in Amsterdam, containing 130 of Przepiórka's tasks.

In addition to chess composition, Przepiórka also played tournament chess and was also successful in this field: in 1904, at the 14th Congress of the German Chess Federation, he received the championship title in the main tournament in Coburg, which he won. He took part in a number of international tournaments until the 1930s. In 1926 he won a tournament in Munich, ahead of Efim Bogoljubow and Rudolf Spielmann, and in 1928 he came second behind Max Euwe at the Amateur World Championship in The Hague. He became national champion at the first Polish championship in 1926 in Warsaw. He played on Poland's national team (alongside Akiba Rubinstein and Savielly Tartakower, among others) at the 1930 Chess Olympiad in Hamburg, which Poland won, and 1931 in Prague, where Poland came second. With the Warsaw city selection he won the Polish team championship in 1934.

His best historical Elo rating was 2612, which he achieved in September 1929.

Przepiórka's love of chess and his immense wealth found a happy combination. Without his generous financial contribution, the Poles would not have been able to host the 1935 Chess Olympiad in Warsaw. Przepiórka's generosity was greatly appreciated in Warsaw. He made his Warsaw villa available to the local chess club free of charge and as a daily gaming venue.

After the German occupation of Poland, Przepiórka's Judaism became his downfall: in January 1940, he was arrested by the Gestapo along with other chess players in a Warsaw café. A few days later he died in a mass execution in the Kampinos National Park, not far from Palmiry. The exact date is unknown.

Literature
Tomasz Lissowski: Dawid Przepiórka, his life and work. The Chess Player, Nottingham 1999, ISBN 1-901034-24-0.
Sources
Helmut Wieteck: David against Goliath - David Przepiorka on his 100th birthday. Schach-Echo 1980, issue 23/24, p. 380/81.

Web links
Commons: Dawid Przepiórka - collection of images
Replayable chess games by Dawid Przepiórka on chessgames.com (English)
Compositions by Dawid Przepiórka on the PDB server
Individual evidence
  Dawid Przepiórka's results at Chess Olympiads

Source: Germain Wikipedia

Others: 

At Edward Winter Chess Notes website we can read:

Przepiórka learned chess at the age of seven all by himself, none of his family knowing the game.

When only nine years of age he was a true chess prodigy and as a boy of 12 he beat the well-known master Taubenhaus in a brilliant game.

Przepiórka's debut in a public arena was a competition for solvers where his name was first mentioned in 1891.
One year later he had an opportunity to play a game with Jan (Jean) Taubenhaus, a renowned Franco-Polish chess master, who participated in some great international events.
The Warsaw press reported, “Przepiórka won his game in a sparkling style”, but the score of this sensational battle has not been preserved.

  His date of death has different records. At Wikipedia 04-1940 is given

Selected endgame studies: 10 endgame studies composed by him are selected on Website ARVES (editor Peter Boll)