Complex sentence: Samuel (Sml) or Solomon (Slm) Lipschütz (July 4 1863, Ungvar--November 30 1905, Hamburg) was a chess player and author and was chess champion of the United States from 1889-90 and again from 1891--94.
Split into simpler sentences: Samuel (Sml) or Solomon (Slm) Lipschütz (July 4 1863, Ungvar--November 30 1905, Hamburg) was a chess player and author. He was chess champion of the United States from 1889-90 and again from 1891--94.