Alexander Wagner (7 August 1868–1942) was a Polish chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 correspondence master and theoretician.

He studied law in Lemberg (Lwów, Lviv), playing chess in the Lvov Chess Club. He took 4th at Lvov 1895 and 6th at Lvov 1896, both won by Ignatz von Popiel

Ignatz von Popiel

Ignatz von Popiel was a Polish-Ukrainian chess player.-Biography:...

, tied for 6-7th at Berlin 1897 (Arpad Bauer won), tied for 7-8th at Berlin 1903 (Horatio Caro

Horatio Caro

Horatio Caro was an English chess master.Caro was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, but spent most of his chess career in Berlin, Germany. He played several matches. In 1892, he drew with Curt von Bardeleben , lost to Szymon Winawer . In 1897, he lost to Jacques Mieses . In 1903, he drew...

 won), and tied for 5-8th at Berlin 1905 (Erich Cohn

Erich Cohn

Erich Cohn was a German chess master.He won or tied for 1st in several tournaments in Berlin . In strong tournaments, he tied for 11-12th at Berlin 1903 . He took 10th at Coburg 1904 . In 1905, he took 5th in Barmen...

 won). In that time, he published an article Das Schachspiel in Polen in the Österreichische Lesehalle. After study, he worked in railway administration in Lvow. Then he moved to Khodoriv

Khodoriv

Khodoriv is a city in the Lviv Oblast of western Ukraine. It has a population of 10,080.The city was first mentioned in 1394. In many historic documents it is referred to as Khodoriv-stav. In many documents it is named Khodoriv-stav. It is connected with a male name Fedir and the situation of the...

, and next settled in Stanislau, Galicia (then Austria-Hungary, next Poland, now Ukraine). He played in local and international correspondence chess tournaments, and published many theoretical analysis in chess magazines.

In February 1912, he published an article A New Gambit. The Swiss Gambit. (1.f4 f5 2.e4 fxe4, 3.Nc3 Nf6, 4.g4) in the Schweizerische Schachzeitung. He introduced in practice, along with Swiss Gambit

Swiss Gambit

In chess, the Swiss Gambit can mean:*The opening 1. f4 f5 2.e4 fxe4 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.g4 *A risky strategy for facing weaker competition in the later rounds of a Swiss system tournament, by deliberately underperforming in the early rounds....

 (1.f4 f5 2.e4), Polish Defense

Polish Defense

The Polish Defense is the name commonly given to one of several sequences of chess opening moves characterized by an early ...b5 by Black. The name "Polish Defense" is given by analogy to the so-called Polish Opening , 1.b4. The original line wasas played by Alexander Wagner, a Polish player and...

(1.d4 b5) and Lemberg Gambit, also known as Tennison Gambit or Abonyi Gambit, (1.Nf3 d5 2.e4).