Szaja Kozłowski

Szaja Kozłowski (* 1910; † 1943) was a Polish endgame study composer and talented chess player.

Life
Szaja Kozłowski's exact life dates are not known, but Czerniak knew him very well. Kozłowski died in the Łódź Ghetto during the Nazi occupation of Poland in 1943.

Tournament chess
Kozłowski was a multiple participant in the finals of the Łódź City Championships, but did not achieve great success. Two of his games were published in a book.

Chess composition
Kozłowski achieved much better results in chess composition. He specialized in endgame studies. In a special appendix to the tournament book for the 35th anniversary of the Łódź Chess Association, 12 of his studies were reproduced.

Almost 30 studies by him are known. In 1956, Grzegorz Grzeban wrote an article on the Kozłowski issue in Szachy, No. 2, which is probably about the temporary interruption of the connection between the two towers.

In the summer of 1967, Włodzimierz Proskurowski spent many hours in the Warsaw National Library, looking through thousands of pages of the newspaper Głos Poranny and other material from the 1930s, and was able to rediscover nine completely forgotten endgame studies by Szaja Kozłowski. He published this result in 1968 in Szachy, Nos. 5, 6 and 7.

Kozlowski - Theme

This is about a temporary interruption to the connection of two rooks of the same colour.

Individual evidence
  Wlodek Proskurowski: Personal communication. August, 2007.
  W. Proskurowski: The fruits from my chess garden. Chess Enterprises, Coraopolis, PA 1993, ISBN 0-945470-37-1, p. 10. (English)
  Władysław Litmanowicz, Jerzy Giżycki: Szachy od A do Z. Volume 1, Warsaw 1986, ISBN 83-217-2481-7, p. 471. (Polish)
  D. Daniuszewski (ed.): Księga jubileuszowa Łódzkiego Towarzystwa Zwolenników Gry Szachowej, wydana z okazji XXXV-lecia. Łódz 1938, p. 163f and p. 168f. (Polish)
  A. J. Roycroft: S. Kozlowski In: eg. No. 18, November 1969, pp. 42–47. (English)
  Walter Veitch: I like endings, but .... (talk to The Chess Endgame Study Circle). In: eg. No. 15, March 1969, p. 464. (English)
Web links
Compositions by Szaja Kozłowski on the PDB server

Source: Germain Wikipedia