Edward Gerstenfeld

Who was Edward Gerstenfeld?

Edward Issakovich Gerstenfeld was a Polish chess master.

Born into a Jewish family in Lviv, Galicia, he took 3rd, behind Henryk Friedman and Izaak Schächter, in the Lviv City championships in 1933, took 3rd at Lviv 1933, took 7th in the Lviv City-ch, and won in the Lviv City-ch in 1935.

In the period between 1935 and 1939, he lived in Lodz. In 1935, Gerstenfeld shared 4th with Jakub Kolski, behind Izaak Appel and Achilles Frydman, in Lodz, tied for 2nd-5th with A. Frydman, Schächter and Abram Szpiro in Lodz, and took 15th in Warsaw. In 1936, he played a match against Szpiro in Lodz, shared 2nd with Schächter, behind Szpiro, at Częstochowa, and tied for 2nd with Appel, behind A. Frydman, in Lodz. In 1936/37, he shared 1st with Paulin Frydman and Appel in Lodz. In 1937, he took 5th in the Lodz City-ch, and tied for 9-10th in Jurata. In 1938, he took 6th in Lodz.