Education
He studied law in Lemberg (Lwów, Lviv), playing chess in the Lviv Chess Club.
He studied law in Lemberg (Lwów, Lviv), playing chess in the Lviv Chess Club.
In that time, he published an article Das Schachspiel in Polen in the Österreichische Lesehalle. After study, he worked in railway administration in Lvow. Then he moved to Khodoriv, and next settled in Stanislau, Galicia (then Austria-Hungary, next Poland, now Ukraine).
He played in local and international correspondence chess tournaments, and published many theoretical analysis in chess magazines.
In February 1912, he published an article A New Gambit. The Swiss Gambit. (1f4 f5 2e4 fxe4, 3Nc3 Nf6, 4g4) in the Schweizerische Schachzeitung.
He introduced in practice, along with Swiss Gambit (1f4 f5 2e4), Polish Defense (1d4 b5) and Lemberg Gambit, also known as Tennison Gambit or Abonyi Gambit, (1Nf3 d5 2e4).