Savielly Tartakower was a Polish chess player. He was awarded the title of International Grandmaster in its inaugural year, 1950. Tartakower was also a leading chess journalist and author of the 1920s and 1930s.
Miguel Najdorf was a Polish–Argentinian chess grandmaster. Originally from Poland, he was in Argentina when World War II began in 1939, and he stayed and settled there. He was a leading world player in the 1940s and 1950s, and is also known for the Najdorf Variation, one of the most popular chess openings.
Agnieszka Brustman is a Polish chess player holding the title of woman grandmaster. She has been the Polish women's champion four times and competed in the Candidates' tournament for the Women's World Championship twice.
Krystyna Hołuj-Radzikowska was a Polish chess player. She was awarded the titles Woman International Master in 1955 and Woman Grandmaster in 1984 by FIDE. Born in Lviv, she was nine-time Polish women's champion.
Henryka (Henrijeta) Konarkowska-Sokolov is a Polish–Serbian chess master.
The Women's Chess Olympiad is an event held by FIDE since 1957, where national women's teams compete at chess for gold, silver and bronze medals. Since 1976 the Women's Chess Olympiad has been incorporated within Chess Olympiad events, with simultaneous women's and open tournaments.
Joanna Majdan-Gajewska is a Polish chess player with the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She was a member of the national team at the 2006 Chess Olympiad in Turin, where she scored 6 points from 9 games. In 2008, she participated at the women's Dresden Chess Olympiad where she scored an excellent 9½ points out of 11 games winning the individual gold medal for the best player on the fourth board. In October 2009 she played at the 8th European Team Chess Championship in Novi Sad, Serbia and won an individual gold medal for being the best player on board five.
Karina Cyfka is a Polish chess player. FIDE awarded her the titles Woman Grandmaster in January 2010 and International Master in September 2016.
Alina Anatolyevna Kashlinskaya is a Russian-born Polish chess player. She holds the titles International Master and Woman Grandmaster, which FIDE awarded her in 2014 and 2009, respectively. Kashlinskaya is the 2019 European Women's Individual Chess Champion.
Krzysztof Pytel was a Polish chess player who twice won the Polish Chess Championship. He received the FIDE title on International Master (IM) in 1975. After 1989 he played for France.
Robert Kuczyński is a Polish chess player who won the Polish Chess Championship in 1987. FIDE Grandmaster (1993).
Anna Jurczyńska, was a Polish chess player who five times won the Polish Women's Chess Championship. FIDE Woman International Master (1981).
Mirosława Litmanowicz was a Polish chess player who won the Polish Women's Chess Championship in 1968. She became a FIDE Woman International Master in 1967.
Grażyna Szmacińska is a Polish chess player who six times won the Polish Women's Chess Championship. She received the FIDE title of Woman International Master (WIM) in 1978.
Małgorzata Wiese-Jóźwiak is a Polish chess player who won the Polish Women's Chess Championship in 1985. She received the FIDE title of Woman International Master (WIM) in 1981.
Marta Michna is a Polish-born chess player who won the Polish Women's Chess Championship in 2003. FIDE Woman Grandmaster (1999). In 2007, she began representing Germany.
Marta Bartel is a Polish chess player who was awarded the title of Woman Grandmaster in 2009.
Klaudia Kulon is a Polish chess player. She holds the titles of International Master and Woman Grandmaster, which FIDE awarded her in 2019 and 2014 respectively. She was twice world girls champion in her age category.
Marcin Kamiński is a Polish chess grandmaster.
Jolanta Dahlin, was a Polish and Swedish chess player, who hold the FIDE title of Woman FIDE Master (1987). She was a winner of the Swedish Women's Chess Championship (1973).
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