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Celebrating 80 years of the Polish CC Federation<\/h2>\n
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Logo of the Polish Chess Federation<\/p><\/div>\n

Name of Federation: <\/strong>Komisja Szachowej Gry Korespondencyjnej PZSzach (KSzGK)<\/p>\n

Year of Foundation: <\/strong>1933<\/p>\n

ICCF Delegate and E-Mail contact:<\/strong> Mariusz Wojnar (mariusz.wojnar@gmail.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Website:<\/strong> http:\/\/kszgk.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Article provided by:<\/strong> Mariusz Wojnar<\/p>\n

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Polish Correspondence Chess Federation foundation<\/strong><\/h4>\n

In 1930 Edward Ar\u0142amowski, student of law at that time, postulated establishment of Polish Correspondence Chess Federation. This idea gathered momentum in 1933, when master Henryk Friedman, editor and publisher of magazine \u201cSzachista\u201d (Chess player), pleaded for that project. As a result founding commitee was established. Board of PCCF was formed as following: president Henryk Friedman, vicepresidents Aleksander Wagner and Jan Hermanowski, secretary&treasurer Julian Madfes, members: M.Steifer, L.Tuhan-Baranowski, H.Salzman, B.Korenhlit, A.Sternak, L.Gerlicz.<\/p>\n

Since 1951 Polish cc federation called Komisja Szachowej Gry Korespondencyjnej PZSzach (Correspondence Chess Commission of the Polish Chess Federation) \u2013 in short KSzGK \u2013 is an autonomous organization within Polish Chess Federation.<\/p>\n

Polish CC Federation Presidents:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
No<\/th>\nPeriod<\/th>\nPresident<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\n1933-1939<\/td>\nHenryk Friedman<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\n1951-1963<\/td>\nHenryk Swinarski<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\n1963-1967<\/td>\nCyryl Niewiadomski<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\n1967-1971<\/td>\nAndrzej Gorzelewski<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\n1971-1985<\/td>\nStanislaw Kania<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\n1985-1988<\/td>\nTadeusz Peretjatkowicz<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\n1988-1996<\/td>\nLudwik Frey<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\n1996-2003<\/td>\nWitold Bielecki<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\n2003-2008<\/td>\nvacancy, Witold Bielecki (as vice-president\u00a0and ICCF delegate)<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\n2008-2010<\/td>\nvacancy, J\u00f3zef Lubas (as vice-president and ICCF delegate)<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11<\/td>\n2010-onwards<\/td>\nTomasz Stefaniak<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Polish correspondence chess history outline<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The oldest information related to organized chess life in Poland comes from Poznan and is dated back to 19th century. In the period of 1839-1840 correspondence match was played between clubs from Poznan and Berlin. Moves were transmited by press starting from 03.01.1839.<\/p>\n

At the end of seveties of 19th century Jan Kleczy\u0144ski (1837-1895, Polish pianist, composer, journalist and chess master) toghether with Szymon Winawer (1838-1920, leading chess player who won the German Chess Championship in 1883) was engaged in organizing the correspondence match Warsaw-Moscow, played in the period of 1879-1882, and finished \u2013 with his participation as a player \u2013 with a victory of Warsaw.<\/p>\n

Expansion of correspondence chess had happend in the period of 1903-1914, when Polish leaders were: H.Bartma\u0144ski, H.Zio\u0142o, A.\u017buk-Skarszewski, L.Tuhan-Baranowski, St.G\u00f3rawski, A.Hartman, A.Wagner. They participated in tournaments organized by newspapers (national and international). Many years fight for official leadership in Poland was not conducted.<\/p>\n

After the first World War monthly \u201e\u015awiat Szachowy\u201d (Chess World), edited by Dawid Przepi\u00f3rka (1880-1940, prominent Polish chess player of the early 20th century, World\u2019s Amateur vice-champion \u2013 behind Max Euwe – in 1928, won the gold medal with Polish team in 3rd Chess Olympiad 1930 and silver medal in 4th Olympiad in 1931), started to arrange correspondence play. First groups started to play in 1930, directed by Wiktor Geier, famous from international correspondence chess events, including Propaganda-Turnier (1928-1930)<\/a> organized by ICSB, but concluded by its successor, the IFSB.<\/p>\n

In the period of 1933-34 S. Czerniakow was considered to be an official champion of Poland. However, the first official Championship of Poland<\/strong>, organized by Henryk Friedman, started in 1934<\/strong> with 3 semifinal groups. Final finished in 1936<\/strong> and winner was M.Tomaszewicz<\/strong>, followed by H.Frideman and prof. A.Ko\u015bcielak.<\/p>\n

In a short time 6 game match was organized between Tomaszewicz and Czerniakow. Czerniakow won 3 games and tied 3 others. Thus S.Czerniakow was considered to be champion of Poland until post-war time, when he personally started from scratch to organize the correspondence chess in Poland.<\/p>\n

The 1st Championship of Poland in post-war time was played in the period of 1948-1950, organized by Sergiusz Czerniakow from Torun, famous cc player and official. In the final 22 players participated, including top Polish OTB players from that time, like B.\u015aliwa or K.Plater and top cc players of pre-war time, like S.Hermanowski, S.Czerniakow, A.Zakrzewski. Champion of Poland became Aleksander Zakrzewski with 18,5, followed by \u015aliwa-18, Hermanowski-17,5, Czerniakow-17, Plater-16, Ch\u0105dzy\u0144ski-15.<\/p>\n

Polish CC Champions<\/strong><\/p>\n

1st (before 2nd World War) 1935-36 M.Tomaszewicz.<\/p>\n

1st (after 2nd World War) 1948-50 A.Zakrzewski; 2nd 1959-60 E.Golemo; 3rd 1962-63 J.Martyniak; 4th 1963-64 E.Golemo; 5th 1963-64 R.Soko\u0142owski; 6th 1964-65 M.Braczko; 7th 1964-66 K.Pytel; 8th 1965-66 S.Brz\u00f3zka; 9th 1966-67 J.Krzyszto\u0144; 10th 1967-68 G.Szewczyk; 11th 1968-69 J.G\u00f3rski; 12th 1969-70 J.Soko\u0142ow; 13th 1969-71 J.Widera; 14th 1970-72 Z.Pioch; 15th 1972-74 Z.Pioch; 16th 1973-75 R.Filutowski; 17th 1974-76 T.Fra\u0144czak; 18th 1975-77 Z.Leszczy\u0144ski; 19th 1976-78 K.Pinkas; 20th 1977-79 J.Babiak; 21st 1978-80 D.Ko\u0144ca; 22nd 1979-81 M.Pogorzelski; 23rd 1980-82 R.Galicki; 24th 1981-83 R.Skrobek; 25th 1983-84 T.Karpik; 26th 1983-85 H.Lew; 27th 1984-86 A.Warta; 28th 1985-87 Z.Blak; 29th 1986-88 R.Kwieci\u0144ski; 30th 1987-89 R.Dors; 31st 1988-90 Z.Marciniak; 32nd 1990-91 J.Zaj\u0105czkowski; 33rd 1991-92 D.Studzi\u0144ski; 34th 1991-93 T.Chruszcz; 35th 1992-94 T.Chruszcz; 36th 1993-95 R.Tustanowski; 37th 1994-96 P.Tkaczyk; 38th 1995-97 R.Pierzak; 39th 1996-98 R.Ogiewka; 40th 1998-99 D.Gronkowski; 41st 1998-99 M.J\u0119drzejowski; 42nd 1999-2001 J.To\u0142\u0142oczko; 43rd 2000-2001 R.Tustanowski; 44th 2001-2004 T.Szafraniec; 45th 2002-2003 A.Krzy\u017canowski; 46th 2003-2004 W.Koz\u0142owski; 47th 2004-2006 T.Baranowski; 48th 2005-2007 M.Nowakowski; 49a (1st email) 2005-2008 R.Wojtkowiak; 49th 2006-2008 A.Sch\u00f6n; 50th 2007-2009 A.Sch\u00f6n; 51st 2008-2009 T.S\u0142awi\u0144ski; 52nd 2009-2011 Z.Szczepa\u0144ski; 53rd 2010-ongoing A.D\u017awikowski; 54th 2011-2012 J.Staniszewski; 55th 2012-?.<\/p>\n

Polish Ladies CC Champions<\/strong><\/p>\n

1st 1972-74 J.Kandora; 2nd 1975-78 A.Kopiec; 3rd 1979-80 H.Sa\u0142abun; 4th 1981-82 U.Maciejewska; 5th 1984-85 H.Sa\u0142abun; 6th 1986-88 B.Tomaszek; 7th 1987-88 S.Siwek.<\/p>\n

Polish Team CC Champions<\/strong><\/p>\n

1st 1971-72 Opole I (E. Kocem, A. Demitrow, J. Kuczynski, S. Kaminski, W. Dobrzynski, J. Kies); 2nd 1973-74 Bialystok (J. Gorski, B. Bieluczyk, E. Radziszewski, R. Borys, T. Bieluczyk, J. Tupalski, M. Onichimiuk, S. Sokolowski); 3rd 1976-77 Bialystok (R. Borys, J. Tupalski, T. Bieluczyk, W. Olszewski, Z. Stolnicki, J. Gorski, M. Onichimiuk, D. Klimaszewski); 4th 1978-80 Bialystok (R. Borys, J. Tupalski, E. Radziszewski, W. Olszewski, T. Bieluczyk, J. Gorski, A. Krajewska, J. Raczkowski); 5th 1980-82 Bialystok (R. Borys, J. Tupalski, E. Radziszewski, J. Kosciuk, T. Bieluczyk, J. Gorski, M. Brzozowska, A. Raczkowski); 6th 1983-85 Bialystok (T. Bieluczyk, R. Borys, J. Tupalski, E. Radziszewski, J. Kosciuk, J. Gorski, M. Tupalska, Z. Bienkowski); 7th 1985-87 Konin (Z. Kulczewski, M. Maciejewski, A. Bialkowski, W. Walaszczyk, A. Swiatnicki, J. Kaczmarek, A. Szymanska, W. Meczynski); 8th 1988-90 ZNP (J. Babiak, S. Mierzejewski, S. Swierczynski, R. Izdebski, R. Probola, B. Kusinski); 9th 1990-92 Bielsko-Biala (M. Matlak, M. Jaworski, A. Mroz, J. Matlak, A. Szczesiak, A. Misiuga); 10th 1992-94 Bielsko-Biala (M. Matlak, M. Jaworski, H. Seifert, J. Matlak, A. Misiuga, M. Gorecki); 11th 1994-96 Bialystok (R. Borys, J. Kosciuk, J. Tupalski, J. Gorski, A. Raczkowski, D. Cimicki); 12th 1997-98 Kalisz (J. Marcinkiewicz, A. Marcinkiewicz, J. Litwin, A. Szczepaniak, A. Dera, K. Winiarski); 13th 1999-2001 Poznan (D. Szczepankiewicz, T. Baranowski, I. Krygier, I. Nowak, J. Dziel, W. Szczepankiewicz); 14th 2001-2003 \u015al\u0105sk Piekary \u015al. (T.Szafraniec, M.J\u0119drzejowski, S.Kasperski, A.Masternak, R.Pierzak, T.Lew); 15th 2003-2005 \u201c\u015al\u0105sk-HetMaN Szopienice\u201d Katowice (R.Skrobek, T.Szafraniec, S.Kasperski, A.Masternak, R.Pierzak\/M.Nowakowski, W.Koz\u0142owski); 16th 2005-2007 Pozna\u0144 (D.Szczepankiewicz, R.Wojtkowiak, I.Nowak, W.Szczepankiewicz, T.Baranowski, I.Krygier); 17th (1st email) 2003-2005 Imperium Szach\u00f3w (W.Niewiadomski, D.Domaga\u0142a\/R.Wojtkowiak, G.Krawczyk, Z.Sanner); 18th (2nd email) 2005-2006 Imperium Szach\u00f3w (W.Niewiadomski, R.Wojtkowiak, G.Krawczyk, Z.Sanner); 19th (3rd email\/server) 2006-2009 Imperium Szach\u00f3w (W.Niewiadomski, M.Jaworski, W.Ci\u0105\u017cela, F.Stanach); 20th 2011-2012 \u201cHetMaN Szopienice\u201d Katowice (R.Pierzak, D.Szczepankiewicz, M.Nowakowski, J.Pietrzak).<\/p>\n

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In several dozen years correspondence chess in Poland have had a great popularity with a pik in 1984, when the bigest boom in Polish cc happened with a huge number of active players above 5,000!<\/strong> It is worth to mention that many top Polish OTB players participated in cc tournaments at that time.<\/p>\n

Correspondence chess is a difficult discipline, especially in computer era, and currently not so much popular, Poland has only around 300 active players (at the end of 2012). Maybe the reason is that cc requires a lot of patience and preciseness. And not always these are the virtues of OTB players. Another reason might be the fear of worse result.<\/p>\n

Participation in ICCF work<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Many Polish delegates participated in ICCF work, but the most known are:<\/p>\n