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{{Short description|Polish chess player and organizer}}
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'''Chaim (Chajkel) Janowski''' (June 15, 1853<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://szukajwarchiwach.pl/39/221/0/4.12/24687/skan/full/BUKv6ikH6bvaK7BSDrDVGA |title=Chaim Janowski's Łódź Registration Card |access-date=2018-05-11 |archive-date=2018-05-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180511220233/https://szukajwarchiwach.pl/39/221/0/4.12/24687/skan/full/BUKv6ikH6bvaK7BSDrDVGA |url-status=dead }}</ref> in [[Wołkowysk]] – 10 January 1935 in [[Tokyo]]) was a Polish [[chess]] master and organizer.

Born into a Jewish family in Wołkowysk (then [[Russian Empire]]), he was the older brother of [[Dawid Janowski]]. He was educated in [[Łódź]] (then [[Congress Poland]]) where lived and played chess for many years. Chaim twice took fourth in 1897 and 1898 (Wiktor Abkin and [[Gersz Salwe]] won), won followed by Samuel Rosenblatt, W. Abkin, Mojżesz Grawe, in 1899/1900, and took 3rd, probably behind Salwe and [[Akiba Rubinstein]], in 1904/1905.<ref>Tadeusz Wolsza, ''Arcymistrzowie, mistrzowie, amatorzy... Słownik biograficzny szachistów polskich'', tom II, Wydawnictwo DiG, Warszawa 1996, {{ISBN|83-85490-78-7}}</ref>

He was one of the founders of Music Association "Hazomir" in Łódź in 1901. Chaim Janowski became the second (after a Russian colonel Konstanty Manakin) president of the Łódź Chess Club (''Łódzkie Towarzystwo Zwolenników Gry Szachowej'') in 1907–1912. In that time, he was an organiser of the fifth [[Russian Chess Championship|All-Russian Masters Tournament]] (1907/1908), and tournaments in which [[Frank James Marshall]] and [[Efim Bogoljubow]] participated.

After the [[First World War]], he played in a team match Warsaw vs. Łódź (lost two games to [[Dawid Przepiórka]]) in 1922. Then, he went abroad and settled in [[Berlin]]. Later, together with his son, he moved to Japan. His wife, Hanna, a music school teacher, died in 1900 at the age of 26. He died in Tokyo and was buried in [[Yokohama]], close to a small, local Jewish colony, in 1935.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vistula.risp.pl/felietony/cjanow.htm |title=Przyczynek do Życiorysu Chaima Janowskiego |accessdate=2009-02-19 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071028172554/http://www.vistula.risp.pl/felietony/cjanow.htm |archivedate=2007-10-28 }}</ref> His son, Leon, became a professor of the Tokyo conservatoire.

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