Education
He was educated in Łódź (then so called Congress Poland) where lived and played chess for many years.
He was educated in Łódź (then so called Congress Poland) where lived and played chess for many years.
Born into a Jewish family in Wołkowysk (then Russian Empire), he was the younger brother of Dawid Janowski. 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 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 versus Łódź (lost two games to Dawid Przepiórka) in 1922.
Then, he went abroad and settled in Berlin. He died in Tokyo and was buried in Yokohama, close to a small, local Jewish colony, in 1935.
