Salomon Szapiro known as Dr. Szeffer (1882–1944) 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...

 master.

Born in Lodz

Lódz

Łódź is the third-largest city in Poland. Located in the central part of the country, it had a population of 742,387 in December 2009. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is approximately south-west of Warsaw...

, he moved to Germany where had studied medicine and received his M.D. degree. He tied for 3rd-5th at Hanover 1902 (DSB Congress

DSB Congress

The Deutschen Schachbund had been founded in Leipzig on 18 July 1877. When the next meeting took place in the Schützenhaus on 15 July 1879, sixty-two clubs had become member of the chess federation. Hofrat Rudolf von Gottschall became Chairman and Hermann Zwanziger the General Secretary...

, Hauptturnier B), took 4th at Coburg 1904 (DSB Congres, Hauptturnier B), took 7th at Barmen 1905 (D tournament), took 4th at Lodz 1909, shared 1st at Nuremberg 1909, took 6th at Hamburg 1910 (DSB Congress, Hauptturnier B), tied for 2nd-3rd at Munich 1911, tied for 6-7th at St. Petersburg 1911 (All-Russian Amateur Tournament, Stepan Levitsky

Stepan Levitsky

Stepan Levitsky was a Russian chess master and national chess champion....

 won), tied for 9-10th at Breslau 1912 (DSB Congress, Hauptturnier B), shared 2nd at Bad Kissingen 1913 (B tourn.), and tied for 7-8th in the Mannheim 1914 chess tournament

Mannheim 1914 chess tournament

The 19th DSB Congress , comprising several tournaments, began on20 July 1914 in Mannheim. Germany declared war on Russia and on France , Britain joining in the next day...

 (19. Kongreß des Deutschen Schachbundes, Hauptturnier B, Julius Brach

Julius Brach

Julius Brach was a Czech chess master.In the beginning of his career, he won at Brno 1899, took 3rd at Osyky u Lomnice, took 2nd at Brno 1901, and took 3rd at Brno 1905...

 won). Then he returned to Lodz.

After World War I

World War I

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, he participated several times in the Lodz City championships. He took 3rd in 1923, took 11th in 1928, tied for 8-9th in 1930, shared 4th in 4th in 1931, tied for 5-6th in 1933, and took 12th in 1934.

In 1939, he published in Hebrew, as Dr. Szeffer, a commentary on the Bible. On February 9, 1944, he had played his last chess game with Dawid Daniuszewski

Dawid Daniuszewski

Dawid Daniuszewski was a Polish chess master.-Biography:In 1906, he finished 2nd, behind Akiba Rubinstein, in Łódź. In 1907, he again finished 2nd, behind Rubinstein, and ahead of Gersz Rotlewi and Gersz Salwe in Łódź . In 1907/08, he took 10th in Łódź...

 in the Lodz Ghetto where he died.