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Polish Chess Championship
Individual Polish Chess Championship is the most important Polish chess tournament, aiming at selecting the best chess players in Poland. Based on the results of the tournament (mainly), the Polish Chess Federation selects the national and subsequently the olympiad team. The first men's championship took place in 1926, and the first women's event in 1935, both in Warsaw. Between the First and the Second World War, four men's finals and two women's took place. After the Second World War, the tournament has taken part annually, with minor exceptions. In most cases, they are round-robin tournaments, where men's groups are of 14-16 players, while the women's are 12 to 14. There were only four Swiss system tournaments in men's tournament history (1975, 1976, 1977, and 1979) and seven in women's (1959, 1965, 1966, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978). Twice (1937 men and 1962 women) final tournaments attracted international players, however in 1962 medals were awarded only to Polish women players. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poznań
Poznań () is a city on the River Warta in west-central Poland, within the Greater Poland region. The city is an important cultural and business centre, and one of Poland's most populous regions with many regional customs such as Saint John's Fair (''Jarmark Świętojański''), traditional Saint Martin's croissants and a local dialect. Among its most important heritage sites are the Renaissance Old Town, Town Hall and Gothic Cathedral. Poznań is the fifth-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. As of 2021, the city's population is 529,410, while the Poznań metropolitan area (''Metropolia Poznań'') comprising Poznań County and several other communities is inhabited by over 1.1 million people. It is one of four historical capitals of medieval Poland and the ancient capital of the Greater Poland region, currently the administrative capital of the province called Greater Poland Voivodeship. Poznań is a center of trade, sports, education, technology and touri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zbigniew Doda
Zbigniew Doda (22 February 1931 – 8 February 2013) was a Polish chess player who twice won the Polish Chess Championship in 1964 and 1967. FIDE International Master (1964). Chess career In the 1960s and 1970s, Doda belonged to the leading Polish chess players. In 1953 he made his debut in the Polish Chess Championship. The first success was in 1960, where he won the silver medal. Polish champion Zbigniew Doda has won twice (1964, 1967), and title runner-up - three times (1960, 1962, 1965). Performances at the Chess Olympiad in Varna and in the tournament in Berlin in 1962 Doda fulfilled the norm of the title International Master that FIDE granted him in 1964. In 1968 Doda won the tournament B in Wijk aan Zee, and a year later he participated in Tata Steel Chess Tournament, Hoogovens Wijk aan Zee tournament A and took seventh place. In 1975 Doda won third place in Rubinstein Memorial in Polanica-Zdrój. Zbigniew Doda played for Poland in Chess Olympiads: * In 1960, at fourth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacek Bednarski
Jacek Bogusław Bednarski (12 March 1939 - 19 October 2008) was a Polish chess player and politician who won the Polish Chess Championship in 1963. He received the FIDE title of International Master (IM) in 1964. Chess career Bednarski became interested in chess at the age of eleven. He met with a professional chess training while studying Physics at the Moscow State University. After returning to the Poland Bednarski quickly became one of the leading Polish chess players and graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy in Jagiellonian University. From 1960 to 1979 he played fifteen times in the Polish Chess Championship's finals, and winning four medals: gold (1963), silver (1964) and two bronze (1972, 1975). Bednarski represented the Poland in international matches and took part in more than sixty international tournaments. In 1967 he shared the seventh place (together with Jan Hein Donner) in very strongly Capablanca Memorial in Havana. In 1972 Bednarski won two international tour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Głuchołazy
Głuchołazy ( ; german: Ziegenhals, also known by Głuchołazy#Symbol and etymology, other names) is a historic town in southwestern Poland with approximately 13,534 inhabitants as of 2019. It is located within the Nysa County of Opole Voivodeship (province), near the border with the Czech Republic, and is the administrative seat of Gmina Głuchołazy. Geography The town is located in the historic Upper Silesia region on the northern slopes of the Opawskie Mountains, in the valley of the Biała River. , it has 13,534 inhabitants. Symbol and etymology Głuchołazy has a canting arms – the shield features a goat's head in reference to its former name ''Koziaszyja'' (in Polish), ''Ziegenhals'' (in German) and ''Capricolium'' (in Latin), which literally means "goat's neck". Other archaic Polish name for the town is ''Cygenhals''. The Czech language, Czech name ''Hlucholazy'' and regional Silesian language, Silesian Guchołazy are also used by their native speakers. History The s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Witold Balcerowski
Witold Balcerowski (10 August 1935 – 9 November 2001) was a Polish chess player who twice won the Polish Chess Championship in 1962 and 1965. Chess career Balcerowski began playing chess at the age of 15. In 1952 Witold Balcerowski won the Polish Junior Chess Championships. However, the next few years he devoted to sentence baccalaureate and higher education, and returned to chess only in the 1960s. From 1960 to 1972 Balcerowski eleven times participated in the Polish Chess Championship's finals. Twice he won title: in 1962 in Poznań after the additional match victory (4:2) to Zbigniew Doda, and in 1965 in Lublin. From 1954 to 1977 Balcerowski regularly participated in the Polish Team Chess Championship, where he won ten medals, including one gold. Participated in many international chess tournaments. Best results: fifth place in the I Memorial Akiba Rubinstein in Polanica-Zdrój in 1963, and shared second - fourth place in tournament in Lublin in 1968. Witold Balcerowski p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Tarnowski
Alfred Tarnowski (3 March 1917 – 24 November 2003) was a Polish chess player who won the Polish Chess Championship in 1961. Chess career Started to play chess in his native Lviv, where Tarnowski lived until 1945. After the end of World War II he moved to Kraków. In 1946 Tarnowski made his debut in the first post-war Polish Chess Championship in Sopot, where he shared seventh place. In the next years he twelve times in the Polish Chess Championship's finals and won two medals: a silver in 1949 in Poznań and gold in 1961 in Katowice. Tarnowski was the participant of eight international chess tournaments. Also Tarnowski was a chess coach and theorist. In 1950 he won the theoretically valuable party against grandmaster Mark Taimanov. Alfred Tarnowski played for Poland in Chess Olympiads: * In 1952, at first board in the 10th Chess Olympiad in Helsinki (+4, =4, -6), * In 1958, at second board in the 13th Chess Olympiad in Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefan Witkowski
Stefan Witkowski (27 September 1931 – 24 October 2007) was a Polish chess player who won the Polish Chess Championship in 1959. He received the FIDE title of International Master (IM) in 1977. Chess career From 1951 to 1979 Stefan Witkowski played eighteen times in the Polish Chess Championship's finals. In 1954 in Łódź he shared first place with Bogdan Śliwa, but lost additional match and won the silver medal. In 1959 Witkowski reached the Polish champion title after the victory in additional match with Józef Gromek - 4:0. In 1955 he made his debut on the international stage. Tournament in Ljubljana he ended in the middle of the table, but won Grandmaster Vasja Pirc in his chess opening - Pirc Defence. Witkowski represented his country in nineteen matches and more than thirty international tournaments. The best results are achieved in the years: 1976 (Hradec Králové - second place ) and 1977 (Lublin - third place) where he was awarded the International Master (IM) tit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Częstochowa
Częstochowa ( , ; german: Tschenstochau, Czenstochau; la, Czanstochova) is a city in southern Poland on the Warta River with 214,342 inhabitants, making it the thirteenth-largest city in Poland. It is situated in the Silesian Voivodeship (administrative division) since 1999, and was previously the capital of the Częstochowa Voivodeship (1975–1998). However, Częstochowa is historically part of the Lesser Poland region, not of Silesia, and before 1795, it belonged to the Kraków Voivodeship. Częstochowa is located in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. It is the largest economic, cultural and administrative hub in the northern part of the Silesian Voivodeship. The city is known for the famous Pauline monastery of Jasna Góra, which is the home of the Black Madonna painting, a shrine to the Virgin Mary. Every year, millions of pilgrims from all over the world come to Częstochowa to see it. The city also was home to the Jewish Frankist movement in the late 18th and the 19th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Józef Gromek
Józef Gromek (20 April 1931 – 19 April 1985) was a Polish chess player who won the Polish Chess Championship in 1955. Chess career Józef Gromek graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy at the Catholic University of Lublin. From 1954 to 1970, he played in the Polish Chess Championship's finals seven times, winning the tournament in 1955 in Wrocław. In 1959, in Łódź, Józef Gromek was able to repeat this success but lost an additional match for first place to Stefan Witkowski - 0:4. In 1962/63, Józef Gromek won the New Year tournament in Lublin, ahead of Polish masters Kazimierz Plater and Bogdan Śliwa. Józef Gromek played for Poland in the Chess Olympiad: * in 1956, at the fourth board in the 12th Chess Olympiad in Moscow (+8, =0, -6). Józef Gromek played in an attacking, combinatorial style. He died from a heart attack during a game of fast chess Fast chess, also known as Speed chess, is a type of chess in which each player is given less time to consider their mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wrocław
Wrocław (; german: Breslau, or . ; Silesian German: ''Brassel'') is a city in southwestern Poland and the largest city in the historical region of Silesia. It lies on the banks of the River Oder in the Silesian Lowlands of Central Europe, roughly from the Baltic Sea to the north and from the Sudeten Mountains to the south. , the official population of Wrocław is 672,929, with a total of 1.25 million residing in the metropolitan area, making it the third largest city in Poland. Wrocław is the historical capital of Silesia and Lower Silesia. Today, it is the capital of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship. The history of the city dates back over a thousand years; at various times, it has been part of the Kingdom of Poland, the Kingdom of Bohemia, the Kingdom of Hungary, the Habsburg monarchy of Austria, the Kingdom of Prussia and Germany. Wrocław became part of Poland again in 1945 as part of the Recovered Territories, the result of extensive border changes and expulsions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katowice
Katowice ( , , ; szl, Katowicy; german: Kattowitz, yi, קאַטעוויץ, Kattevitz) is the capital city of the Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland and the central city of the Upper Silesian metropolitan area. It is the 11th most populous city in Poland, while its urban area is the most populous in the country and one of the most populous in the European Union. Katowice has a population of 286,960 according to a 31 December 2021 estimate. Katowice is a central part of the Metropolis GZM, with a population of 2.3 million, and a part of a larger Upper Silesian metropolitan area that extends into the Czech Republic and has a population of 5-5.3 million people."''Study on Urban Functions (Project 1.4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
