Stefan Brzózka (5 October 1931 – 7 January 2023) was the first Polish
chess
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player to receive the
chess title of
Correspondence Chess Grandmaster (1985).
Chess career
From 1953 to 1966, Brzózka participated eleven times in
Polish Chess Championships final. His best result was fourth place in 1953. He won the Polish Team Chess Championship four times (1958, 1968, 1970, 1974) and once won the Polish Team Fast Chess Championship (1968).
He played for Poland in the
Chess Olympiad:
* In 1958, at second reserve board in the
13th Chess Olympiad
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in
Munich
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(+4, =1, -4).
Brzózka played for Poland in the
European Team Chess Championship
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preliminaries:
* In 1957, at tenth board in the 1st European Team Chess Championship preliminaries (+0, =1, -1).
* In 1961, at fourth board in the 2nd European Team Chess Championship preliminaries (+1, =1, -3).
He played for Poland in the World Student Team Chess Championships:
* In 1955, at second board in the 2nd World Student Team Chess Championship in
Lyon
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(+4, =3, -5),
* In 1956, at first board in the 3rd World Student Team Chess Championship in
Uppsala
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(+2, =3, -1).
In 1967, Brzózka withdrew from the active chess tournament, devoting himself to
correspondence chess
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where achieving significant successes. In 1966 he won Polish Correspondence Chess Championship. Brzózka was a participant in the 16th
World Correspondence Chess Championship (1999–2004).
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1931 births
2023 deaths
Polish chess players
Correspondence chess grandmasters
Chess Olympiad competitors
20th-century chess players
People from Radomsko
20th-century Polish people
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