Ignatz von Popiel


Ignatz von Popiel was a Polish-Ukrainian chess player.

Biography

Born into a noble family in Drohobych, Galicia, he began study law at the University of Graz. Then started his chess career in Vienna, where he took 10th in 1886, took 2nd in 1887, and took 2nd in 1888. In the period between 1889 and 1892, he studied law at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow. In 1889, he tied for 3rd-4th and tied for 5th-6th at Breslau. In 1892, he tied for 1-3rd and took 7th in Dresden.
In 1895, he won in the Lvov Chess Club championship. In 1896, he tied for 2nd-3rd in Eisenach, took 13th in Budapest, and won in Lviv. In 1897, he tied for 1st-2nd and won in Berlin. In 1898, he tied for 10th-11th in Cologne. In 1899-1900, he took 9th in Vienna. In 1900, he tied for 11th-12th in Munich. In 1902, he took 16th in Monte Carlo, and took 18th in Hannover.
In 1904, he took 3rd in the Lvov City championship, and 3rd in Lvov. In 1905, he drew a match with Oskar Piotrowski. He took 5th at Lvov 1912, and took 2nd, behind Piotrowski, in the Lvov City championship in 1914.
During World War I, in 1915, he took 6th at Vienna. After the war, Popiel was one of the strongest chess players in Lvov, Poland. He participated several times in the Lvov City championship; took 2nd in 1925, tied for 2nd-4th in 1926, tied for 2nd-3rd in 1927, took 8th in 1931, and took 14th in 1933. Playing in a pre-Olympic tournament at Lodz 1935 took 13th place. In 1937 he left Lvov for Bochnia, and tied for 5-7th in the Cracow City championship. He died on 2 May 1941 in General Government, Poland.
He was the uncle of Stepan Popel, a Ukrainian chess master.

Notable chess games

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