Bożena Sikora-Giżyńska (born 18 April 1960) is a Polish

chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...

player who won the Polish Women's Chess Championship in 1990. She received the

FIDE title FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE (''Fédération Internationale des Échecs'') for outstanding performance. The highest such title is Grandmaster (GM). Titles generally require a combination of Elo rating and ...

of Woman International Master (WIM) in 1986.

Chess career

In 1975 Bożena Sikora-Giżyńska won Polish Junior Chess Championship. In 1977 she won European Junior Chess Championship (U-20) in

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. From 1975 to 1992 Bożena Sikora-Giżyńska played 17 times in the Polish Women's Chess Championship's finals. She won three medals: gold (1990), silver (1981) and bronze (1988). Also Bożena Sikora-Giżynska won gold medal in Polish Team Chess Championships (1990). Bożena Sikora-Giżyńska won or shared first place in an international women's chess tournament in

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(1982, 1983),

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(1985) and

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"Bohemians" (1987-1990, 1992). She was awarded the

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title in 1986. Bożena Sikora-Giżyńska played for Poland in

Women's Chess Olympiad The Women's Chess Olympiad is an event held by FIDE (the International Chess Federation) since 1957 (every two years since 1972), where national women's teams compete at chess for gold, silver and bronze medals. Since 1976 the Women's Chess Olympia ...

s:OlimpBase :: Women's Chess Olympiads :: Bożena Sikora-Giżyńska
/ref> * In 1990, at second board in the 29th Chess Olympiad (women) in

(+2, =4, -4).

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sikora-Gizynska, Bozena 1960 births Living people Polish female chess players Chess Woman International Masters