Kasimir de Weydlich


Casimir de Weydlich was a Polish chess master.
Born into an aristocratic family in Skotyniany, near Kamenets Podolskiy, he began his chess career in the early 1880s. He tied for 5-6th at the 2nd Warsaw City Championship in 1883/84, but won an individual game against Józef Żabiński, the winner of the event. Then he took 16th at Leipzig 1894, and won a mini-match against Jean Taubenhaus at Warsaw 1898.
Count de Weydlich was a co-founder of the Lwowski Klub Szachistów in Lwów, Galicia, in November 1894. He played in several tournaments in Lemberg; took 3rd in 1895, shared 2nd in 1896, took 4th in 1904, and tied for 4-5th in 1912.
His best achievement was the second prize at Le Monde Illustré correspondence tournament in 1897. He died in Lemberg in 1913.