Artur Popławski (1860, in Warsaw – 1918, in Warsaw) was a Polish chess master.

He started his studies at Imperial University of Warsaw (with a Russian language) in 1879, and moved to ETH Zurich (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich) in 1884.

Artur Popławski

In 1883/84, he took second place, behind Józef Żabiński, in the Warsaw City Chess Championship, scoring 19/22. In Switzerland, Poplawski twice shared first place with Max Pestalozzi in the Swiss Chess Championship, at Zürich in 1889 and at Winterthur in 1890.

Artur Popławski

He returned to Warsaw in the early 1890s and worked as an engineer.

Artur Popławski

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1860 births

1918 deaths

Polish chess players

Expatriates in Switzerland

Sportspeople from Warsaw

19th-century chess players

People from Congress Poland

Chess players from the Russian Empire

Expatriates from the Russian Empire