Career
Alexander Davidovich Flamberg born in Warsaw (then Russian Empire), spent his early years in England, where he learned to play chess. After return to Warsaw, he became one of the strongest Polish chess players. In 1900, he took 2nd, behind Salomon Langleben, in Warsaw.
Flamberg played his first strong tournament in Łódź (Quadrangular) in 1906, where he took 3rd, behind Akiba Rubinstein and Mikhail Chigorin.
In 1910, he took 3rd, behind Gersz Rotlewi and Rubinstein, in Warsaw. In 1911, he tied for 2nd-3rd with Gersz Salwe, behind Rubinstein, in Warsaw.
In 1911, Flamberg took 2nd, behind Stepan Levitsky, in Street St. Petersburg (All-Russian Amateur Tournament). In 1912, he tied for 6-7th with Sergey von Freymann in Abbazia (Opatija).
In 1912, he took 2nd, behind Rubinstein, in Warsaw.
In 1912, he took 2nd, behind Efim Bogoljubow, in Łódź. In 1912, he took 5th in Vilnius (the 7th All-Russian Masters" Tournament, RUS-ch). In 1913/14, he took 3rd, behind Alexander Alekhine and Aron Nimzowitsch, in Sankt St. Petersburg (the 8th RUS-ch).
After the declaration of war against Russia, eleven "Russian" players (Alekhine, Bogoljubow, Bogatyrchuk, Flamberg, Koppelman, Maljutin, Rabinovich, Romanovsky, Saburov, Selesniev, Weinstein) from the interrupted Mannheim tournament were interned by Germany.
In September 1914, four of them (Alekhine, Bogatyrchuk, Saburov, and Koppelman) were freed and allowed, through Switzerland, to return home. The Russian internees played eight tournaments, the first in Baden Baden (1914) and all the others in Triberg (1914/15, 1915, 1916, 1917).
The winners were also: Flamberg in 1914, and Ilya Rabinovich in 1916 and 1917 (last one tied with Alexey Selezniev). Flamberg was allowed to return to Warsaw in 1916 (central Poland under German administration).
In 1919/20, he took 2nd, behind Zdzislaw Belsitzmann, but ahead of Rubinstein.
In 1924, he tied for 1st with Lowtzky in Warsaw. In 1926, Flamberg died relatively young in his native Warsaw.