{"id":838,"date":"2011-08-22T19:20:47","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T17:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/szachykorespondencyjne.org.pl\/?page_id=838"},"modified":"2013-02-03T18:05:12","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T17:05:12","slug":"poland","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/?page_id=838","title":{"rendered":"Poland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Name of Federation:<\/strong> Komisja Szachowej Gry Korespondencyjnej PZSzach (KSzGK)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Year of Foundation: <\/strong>1933<\/p>\n<p><strong>ICCF Delegate and E-Mail contact:<\/strong>\u00a0Mariusz Wojnar\u00a0(<a href=\"mailto:mariusz.wojnar@gmail.com\">mariusz.wojnar@gmail.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Website:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/\">http:\/\/kszgk.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Article provided by:<\/strong> Mariusz Wojnar<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Introduction<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Szachy_Kochanowski.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-885\" title=\"Front page of Szachy by Kochanowski\" src=\"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Szachy_Kochanowski-172x300.jpg\" alt=\"Janusz Pelc: Kochanowski. Szczyt renesansu w literaturze polskiej. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, 2001\" width=\"172\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Szachy_Kochanowski-172x300.jpg 172w, https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Szachy_Kochanowski-589x1024.jpg 589w, https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Szachy_Kochanowski.jpg 719w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 172px) 100vw, 172px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chess_(poem)\">Szachy<\/a> (Eng: Chess) is a poem written by Jan Kochanowski (Polish poet), first published between 1562\u00a0and 1566.<\/p>\n<p>Piece of the second\u00a0edition of\u00a0Szachy (from 1585) is preserved in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/K%C3%B3rnik_Library\">K\u00f3rnik Library<\/a>. Front page of the 1585 edition is presented on the left (source).<\/p>\n<p>In 1912, Alexander Wagner (1868\u20131942), a Polish chess correspondence master and theoretician,\u00a0reconstructed the game described in the poem, which is presented below.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class='chessboard-wrapper'><textarea id='pgn4web_1d3232bf' style='display:none;' cols='40' rows='8'>   [Event \"Szachy by Jan Kochanowski\"]  [Site \"\"]  [Date \"c.1565\"]  [Round \"\"]  [White \"Fiedur\"]  [Black \"Borzuj\"]  [Result \"0-1\"]  [Eco \"\"]  [Annotator \"\"]  [Source \"\"]   {\"Chess\" (Polish: \"Szachy\") is a poem written by Jan Kochanowski, first published between 1562 and 1566. Inspired by Marco Girolamo Vida's Scacchia Ludus, it is a narrative poetry work that describes a game of chess between two men, Fiedor and Borzuj, who fight for the right to marry Anna, princess of Denmark. In 1912, Alexander Wagner reconstructed the game described in the poem.}   1. d4 d5 2. c3 e5 3. e3 a5 4. b3 h6 5. a3 Na6 6. h3 Bf5 7. Be2 Qd6 8. c4 g6 9. b4 axb4 10. axb4 O-O-O 11. Nf3 Kb8 12. Nc3 Rh7 13. Nxd5 Nxb4 14. Nxe5 Nc2+ 15. Kf1 Nxa1 16. Bd2 g5 17. Qxa1 Be6 18. e4 Bg7 19. Ne3 f6 20. Nf3 Qa6 21. Qb2 Qd6 22. d5 Bd7 23. Qd4 Qb6 24. c5 Qb1+ 25. Be1 Be8 26. c6 Rc8 27. d6 f5   ({Borzuj touches his e4 pawn, thinking about 28. exf5?. Fiedor immediately captures the white queen with 28. ... Bxd4. Borzuj protests, as he is not aware of the touch-move rule. They eventually agree to cancel the move.})   28. Qc4 Nf6 29. Ne5 Qb6 30. Rh2 h5 31. f3 Rd8 32. Bg3 f4   {White contemplates whether he would rather want to lose a knight or a bishop and decides to keep the former.}   33. Nf5 fxg3 34. Nxg3 Rh8 35. Nd7+ Bd7 36. cxd7 Rd7 37. Qc1 Qxd6 38. Qxg5 h4 39. Nf5 Qb6 40. Qe3 Rh5 41. Qc1 c5 42. Ne3 Bh6 43. Kg1 Qd8 44. Kf1 Rd2 45. Kf2 Nd5 46. Qc4 Rxe2+ 47. Qxe2 Nxe3 48. Qe1 Qg5 49. Kg1 c4 50. Qf2 c3 51. Rh1 b6   {Borzuj attempts to illegally put his captured knight again on the board, which Wagner renders as 52. Na1\u2013b3?}   52. Kh2 Qg3+ 53. Qxg3+ hxg3+ 54. Kxg3 Ra5 55. Kf2 Ra8 56. Ke2 Nc2 57. Kd1 Ne3+ 58. Kc1 Nxg2+ 59. Kb1 b5 60. h4 b4 61. h5 b3 62. e5 Bg5 63. h6 Nh4 64. e6 Bf6 65. h7 Nxf3 66. e7 Bxe7 67. h8=Q+ Kb7 68. Qh3 Ne5 69. Qh5 Nd3 70. Qh3 Nb4 71. Qf3+ Kb8 72. Qe2 Bf6 73. Qe6 Bg7 74. Qd7 Bd4 75. Rh7!   {The play is suspended for the night after this move.}   75. ... Ra1+   ({Alternative endings by GM Yuri Averbakh, but different from original poetry text} (75. ... Ra1+ 76. Kxa1 c2+ 77 Qxd4 c1=Q#) (75. ... c2+ 76. Kc1 Ra1+ 77. Kd2 c1=Q+ 78. Ke2 Qd1# (78. ... Qe3#)))   76. Kxa1 b2+ 77. Kb1 c2#   <\/textarea><iframe src='https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/plugins\/embed-chessboard\/pgn4web\/board.html?am=n&amp;d=3000&amp;ig=f&amp;iv=0&amp;ih=s&amp;ss=26&amp;ps=d&amp;pf=d&amp;lch=E6CC98&amp;dch=AD826A&amp;bbch=E0E0E0&amp;hm=b&amp;hch=ABABAB&amp;bd=c&amp;cbch=F0F0F0&amp;ctch=696969&amp;hd=j&amp;md=f&amp;tm=13&amp;fhch=000000&amp;fhs=14&amp;fmch=190CCC&amp;fcch=595959&amp;hmch=E0E0E0&amp;fms=14&amp;fcs=m&amp;cd=i&amp;bch=FFFFFF&amp;fp=13&amp;hl=f&amp;fh=643&amp;fw=p&amp;pi=pgn4web_1d3232bf' frameborder='0' width='100%' height='643' scrolling='no' marginheight='0' marginwidth='0'>your web browser and\/or your host do not support iframes as required to display the chessboard; alternatively your wordpress theme might suppress the html iframe tag from articles or excerpts<\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>xxx<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Polish Correspondence Chess Federation foundation<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>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 &#8220;Szachista&#8221; (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&amp;treasurer Julian Madfes, members: M.Steifer, L.Tuhan-Baranowski, H.Salzman, B.Korenhlit, A.Sternak, L.Gerlicz.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1951 Polish cc federation called Komisja Szachowej Gry Korespondencyjnej PZSzach (Correspondence Chess Commision of the Polish Chess Federation) &#8211; in short KSzGK &#8211; is an autonomous organization within Polish Chess Federation.<\/p>\n<p>Polish CC Federation Presidents:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1933-1939 Henryk Friedman<\/li>\n<li>1951-1963 Henryk Swinarski<\/li>\n<li>1963-1967 Cyryl Niewiadomski<\/li>\n<li>1967-1971 Andrzej Gorzelewski<\/li>\n<li>1971-1985 Stanislaw Kania<\/li>\n<li>1985-1988 Tadeusz Peretjatkowicz<\/li>\n<li>1988-1996 Ludwik Frey<\/li>\n<li>1996-2003 Witold Bielecki<\/li>\n<li>2003-2008 vacant, Witold Bielecki (as vice-president, until 2008 ICCF delegate)<\/li>\n<li>2008-2010 vacant, J\u00f3zef Lubas (as vice-president and ICCF delegate)<\/li>\n<li>2010-onwards Tomasz Stefaniak<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Polish correspondence chess history outline<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The oldest information related to organized chess life in Poland comes from Poznan and is dated back to\u00a019th 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<div class='chessboard-wrapper'><textarea id='pgn4web_ae1f7afb' style='display:none;' cols='40' rows='8'>   [Event \"Match Poznan \u2013 Berlin\"]   [Site \"corr\"]   [Date \"03.01.1839-24.10.1839\"]   [Round \"\"]   [White \"Poznan\"]   [Black \"Berlin\"]   [Result \"0-1\"]   [Eco \"...\"]   [Annotator \"...\"]   [Source \"\"]   {Moves were transmited by press}   1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Nf6 3.Nf3 Nxe4 4.Nxe5 d5 5.Bb3 Qg5 6.Nxf7 Qxg2 7.Rf1 Nc6 8.c3 Nc5 9.d4 Nxb3 10.Nxh8 Qe4+ 11.Qe2 Qxe2+ 12.Kxe2 Nxa1 13.Rg1 Bf5 14.Nd2 O-O-O 15.Nf3 Re8+ 16.Be3 Nc2 17.Nf7 Nxe3 18.fxe3 g6 19.h4 Re7 20.N7e5 Nxe5 21.Nxe5 Bg7 22.Nf3 Re4 23.h5 Bh6 0-1   [Event \"Match Poznan \u2013 Berlin\"]   [Site \"corr\"]   [Date \"14.11.1839-02.07.1840\"]   [Round \"\"]   [White \"Berlin\"]   [Black \"Poznan\"]   [Result \"1-0\"]   [Eco \"...\"]   [Annotator \"...\"]   [Source \"\"]   {Moves were transmited by press}   1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Bc4 Qh4+ 4.Kf1 d6 5.d4 g5 6.Nf3 Qh5 7.h4 Bg4 8.Nc3 c6 9.Kf2 Bxf3 10.Qxf3 Qxf3+ 11.Kxf3 Bg7 12.hxg5 Bxd4 13.Bxf4 Be5 14.Bxe5 dxe5 15.Rad1 Ne7 16.a4 a5 17.Rh6 Ng6 18.Rdh1 Ke7 19.Rxh7 1-0   <\/textarea><iframe src='https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/plugins\/embed-chessboard\/pgn4web\/board.html?am=n&amp;d=3000&amp;ig=f&amp;iv=0&amp;ih=s&amp;ss=26&amp;ps=d&amp;pf=d&amp;lch=E6CC98&amp;dch=AD826A&amp;bbch=E0E0E0&amp;hm=b&amp;hch=ABABAB&amp;bd=c&amp;cbch=F0F0F0&amp;ctch=696969&amp;hd=j&amp;md=f&amp;tm=13&amp;fhch=000000&amp;fhs=14&amp;fmch=190CCC&amp;fcch=595959&amp;hmch=E0E0E0&amp;fms=14&amp;fcs=m&amp;cd=i&amp;bch=FFFFFF&amp;fp=13&amp;hl=t&amp;fh=b&amp;fw=p&amp;pi=pgn4web_ae1f7afb' frameborder='0' width='100%' height='302' scrolling='no' marginheight='0' marginwidth='0'>your web browser and\/or your host do not support iframes as required to display the chessboard; alternatively your wordpress theme might suppress the html iframe tag from articles or excerpts<\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>===<\/p>\n<p>At the end of seveties of\u00a019th century\u00a0Jan 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)\u00a0was engaged in organizing the correspondence match Warsaw-Moscow,\u00a0played in the period of 1879-1882, and finished &#8211; with his participation as a player &#8211; with a victory of Warsaw.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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\u00a020th century, World&#8217;s Amateur vice-champion &#8211; behind Max Euwe &#8211;\u00a0in 1928, won the gold medal\u00a0with 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/?page_id=564\">Propaganda-Turnier (1928-1930)<\/a> organized by ICSB, but concluded by its successor, the IFSB.<\/p>\n<p>In the period of 1933-34 S. Czerniakow was considered to be an official champion of Poland. However, <strong>the first official Championship of Poland<\/strong>, organized by Henryk Friedman, <strong>started in 1934<\/strong> with 3 semifinal groups. Final <strong>finished in 1936<\/strong> and <strong>winner was M.Tomaszewicz<\/strong>, followed by H.Frideman and prof. A.Ko\u015bcielak.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p><strong>Polish CC Champions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1st (before 2nd World War) 1935-36 M.Tomaszewicz.<\/p>\n<p>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;\u00a044th 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<p><strong>Polish Ladies CC Champions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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<p><strong>Polish Team CC Champions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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<p>==<\/p>\n<p><strong>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<p>Correspondence chess is a difficult discipline, especially in computer era, and currently not so much popular,\u00a0Poland has\u00a0only around 300 active players (at the end of 2011). 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<h4><strong>Participation in ICCF work<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Many Polish delegates participated in ICCF work, but the most known are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stanis\u0142aw Kania &#8211; liaison officer to FIDE, chairman of the FIDE\/ICCF Commission and member of Qualifications and Rules Commission;<\/li>\n<li>Witold Bielecki &#8211; member and chairman of several ICCF working groups and committees\/ commissions (Tournaments, Tournament Rules, Playing Rules, Appeals), TD for hundreds of tournaments, including World Championship finals, WTD;<\/li>\n<li>Mariusz Wojnar &#8211; Polish delegate to ICCF and deputy Ratings Commissioner since 2010, World Cup 18 organizer and TD,\u00a0project leader for ICCF Diamond Jubilee Web Book called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/\">Celebrating 60 years of the ICCF<\/a>&#8220;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>International arbiters (IA) from Poland: W.Bielecki, J.Danieyko, S.G\u00f3rkiewicz, A.Huchla, S.Kania, J.Lisak, J.Lubas, A.Nowicki, T.Peretjatkowicz, J.Po\u015bpiech, W.Sapa.<\/p>\n<p>ICCF Congress was hosted by Poland 3 times:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1973-Warsaw<\/li>\n<li>1983-Pozna\u0144<\/li>\n<li>1993-Gda\u0144sk<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/?page_id=600\">Bertl von Massow Medals<\/a> for faithful service to ICCF<\/span>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>in Gold\u00a0(for 15 years)\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a01998 Witold Bielecki<\/li>\n<li>1987 Stanis\u0142aw Kania<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>in Silver (for 10 years)\n<ul>\n<li>1987 Tadeusz Peretjatkowicz<\/li>\n<li>1986 Stanis\u0142aw G\u00f3rkiewicz<\/li>\n<li>1985 Witold Bielecki<\/li>\n<li>1984 Stanis\u0142aw Kania<\/li>\n<li>1984 Jan Danieyko<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>International Tournaments Organized<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>The first international friendly match\u00a0Poland-Netherlands (1927-?)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The first official regular international match after regaining independence by Poland organized by prof. W.Geier (POL) and J.Keemink (NED) was planned at 10 boards. Unfortunatelly, information\u00a0is not complete and final result is unknown. We know only from 8 edition of &#8220;Szachy&#8221; (Lviv-at that time Polish city) that match Poland-Netherlands\u00a0started on 10.05.1927 at boards:<\/p>\n<p>1.W.Geier (W\u0142oc\u0142awek)-T.H.Gond\u00a0(Utrecht); 2.W.Pomochaczi (Lviv)-J.Keemink (Hilversum); 3.A.Wagner (Stanis\u0142aw\u00f3w)-W.Kersing (Utrecht); 4.H.Fridman (Lviv)-S.L.de Brie (Utrecht); 5.S.Hermanowski (Aleksandr\u00f3w Kujawski)-Olland\u00a06.D.Szaniawski (D\u0105browa G\u00f3rnicza)-H.van Groninger; 7.E.Ar\u0142amowski (Bochnia)-N.M.Boekdrukker (Hilversum)<\/p>\n<p>Initially prof.Geier didn&#8217;t want to accept\u00a0participation of\u00a0Ar\u0142amowski, since he was schoolboy at the age of\u00a014 at that time. Finaly Ar\u0142amowski played his first international games and besides with success (below his games from his archive published in KSzGK News Report 1975\/2).<\/p>\n<div class='chessboard-wrapper'><textarea id='pgn4web_50d0f479' style='display:none;' cols='40' rows='8'>   [Event \"Match Poland-Nederlands\"] [Site \"\"] [Date \"1927\"] [Round \"\"] [White \"Ar\u0142amowski, E (POL)\"] [Black \"Boekdrukker, N (NED)\"] [Result \"1-0\"] [Eco \"D60\"] [Annotator \"\"] [Source \"\"]   1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.c4 e6 4.Bg5 Be7 5.e3 Nbd7 6.Nc3 c6 7.Bd3 O-O 8.O-O dxc4 9.Bxc4 a6 10.Bd3 c5 11.Bc2 b5 12.e4 cxd4 13.Qxd4 Bb7 {?} 14.e5 Nd5 15.Bxh7+ Kxh7 16.Qh4+ Kg8 17.Nxd5 f6 18.Nxe7+ Qxe7 19.exf6 gxf6 20.Bh6 Rf7 21.Rfe1 e5 22.Qg4+ Kh8 23.Nh4 Qe8 24.Ng6+ Kh7 25.Qh5 Kg8 26.Re3 1-0   [Event \"Match Poland-Nederlands\"] [Site \"\"] [Date \"1927\"] [Round \"\"] [White \"Boekdrukker, N (NED)\"] [Black \"Ar\u0142amowski, E (POL)\"] [Result \"1\/2-1\/2\"] [Eco \"C47\"] [Annotator \"\"] [Source \"\"]   1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Bb4 6.Nxc6 bxc6 7.Bd3 d5 8.O-O Bxc3 9.bxc3 dxe4 10.Bxe4 Nxe4 11.Qe2 Qe7 12.Re1 f5 13.f3 O-O 14.Qe3 Re8 15.fxe4 Qxe4 16.Qxe4 Rxe4 17.Rxe4 fxe4 18.Rb1 Ba6 19.Be3 Bb5 20.Rb4 Re8 21.Kf2 a5 22.Rd4 Kf7 23.Rd7+ Re7 24.Rd8 Re8 25.Rd7+ 1\/2-1\/2   &nbsp;   <\/textarea><iframe src='https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/plugins\/embed-chessboard\/pgn4web\/board.html?am=n&amp;d=3000&amp;ig=f&amp;iv=0&amp;ih=s&amp;ss=26&amp;ps=d&amp;pf=d&amp;lch=E6CC98&amp;dch=AD826A&amp;bbch=E0E0E0&amp;hm=b&amp;hch=ABABAB&amp;bd=c&amp;cbch=F0F0F0&amp;ctch=696969&amp;hd=j&amp;md=f&amp;tm=13&amp;fhch=000000&amp;fhs=14&amp;fmch=190CCC&amp;fcch=595959&amp;hmch=E0E0E0&amp;fms=14&amp;fcs=m&amp;cd=i&amp;bch=FFFFFF&amp;fp=13&amp;hl=t&amp;fh=b&amp;fw=p&amp;pi=pgn4web_50d0f479' frameborder='0' width='100%' height='302' scrolling='no' marginheight='0' marginwidth='0'>your web browser and\/or your host do not support iframes as required to display the chessboard; alternatively your wordpress theme might suppress the html iframe tag from articles or excerpts<\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>More information on friendly matches of Poland\u00a0against other countries can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/?page_id=320\">Polish cc website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, it is appropriate to mention here about very special and unique match &#8211; Match Witold\u2019s Friends\u00a0vs. Rest of the World, which was initiated on 08.02.2012 at 261 boards: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iccf-webchess.com\/EventCrossTable.aspx?id=28069\">server part<\/a> at 252 boards and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iccf-webchess.com\/EventCrossTable.aspx?id=28070\">postal part<\/a> at 9 boards. It seems to be the biggest one in the history of ICCF.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/tables.iccf.com\/world\/cup\/wcup-03.htm\">World Cup 3<\/a> (1974-1986)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>TO\/TD Ernest Kocem (POL\/GER), Witold Bielecki (POL) took over responsibilities from semifinals<\/li>\n<li>preliminaries 1974-1976, 2619 enties from 43 countries, 194 sections; semifinals 1977-1980; final 1981-1986, 15 players;<\/li>\n<li>Winners in final: 1.N.Rabinovich (URS), 2.A.Idema (NED), 3.N.Kristoffel (EST).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/tables.iccf.com\/world\/cup\/wcup-06.htm\">World Cup 6<\/a>\/ <a href=\"http:\/\/tables.iccf.com\/world\/cup\/wcup-07.htm\"><strong>World Cup <\/strong>7<\/a> (1986-2001) in memory of Bertl von Massow<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>TO\/TD Witold Bielecki<\/li>\n<li>preliminaries 1986-1989, 3603 entries, 328 sections; semifinals 1989-1994, 420 participants, 28 sections; final\u00a06 1994-1999, 17 players; final 7 1994-2001, 17 players;<\/li>\n<li>Winners in final 6: 1.O.Rause (LAT), 2.M.Voss (GER), 3.V.Normantas (LTU).<\/li>\n<li>Winners in final 7: 1.A.Lepikhov (UKR), 2.I.Bern (NOR), 3.Krivonosovs,Valerijs (LAT)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/bielecki\/?page_id=38\">World Cup\u00a018<\/a> (2011-2017?) in memory of Witold Bielecki<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>TO\/TD Mariusz Wojnar<\/li>\n<li>preliminaries 2011-2013?,\u00a0844 entries,\u00a053 countries,\u00a065 sections.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>1st Cultural Cities TT (1974-1977)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So called Cracow Jubilee tournament. Team tournament of\u00a0European cities of merit in culture and science organized on the occation of 80th anniversary of Krakowski Klub Szachist\u00f3w (Cracow Chess Club), founded in 1893. Tournament gathered 10 teams,\u00a04 players per team [KSzGK News Report 1978\/3]:<\/p>\n<p>1.Dresden (GDR)-23, 2.Heidelberg (FRG)-22,5,\u00a0 3.Debrecen (HUN)-22, 4.Krak\u00f3w (POL) (J.Krzyszto\u0144, J.Konikowski, R.G\u0105siorowski, S.Por\u0119bski)-21, 5.Budapest (HUN)-20, 6.Nikolayew (URS)-18, 7.\u017dilina (CSR)-18, 8.Stockholm (SWE)-16,5, 9.Ljubljana (YUG)-11, 10.Rome (ITA)-8<\/p>\n<p><strong>Polish CC Federation 40 years (1976-1979)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jubilee tournament organized on the occasion of 40th anniversary of\u00a0Polish Correspondence Chess Federation foundation.\u00a0Tournament gathered 17 players, all foreign players with international titles (ICCF\u00a0or FIDE), each Polish participant was cc champion of Poland. TD E.Ar\u0142amowski [KSzGK News Report 1979\/1]. Final results:<\/p>\n<p>1.D.Lapienis (URS)-13,5\/15, 2.J.Krzyszto\u0144 (POL)-11, 3.S.Brz\u00f3zka (POL)-10, 4.R.Soko\u0142owski (POL)-8,5,\u00a05.N.Preo (CAN)-8,5, 6.F.Smrcka (CSR)-8, 7.F.Grze\u015bkowiak (FRG)-7,5, 8.T.Florian (HUN)-7,5, 9.I.Morozov (URS)-7,\u00a0 10.G.R.Mitchel (ENG)-7, 11.G.Szewczyk (POL)-6, 12.J.Kondali (YUG)-6,\u00a0 13.P.Diaconescu (ROU)-5,5, 14.P.Angelov (BUL)-5,5, 15.P.Heileman (FRG)-5, 16.W.Stern (GDR)-3,5.<\/p>\n<p>Polish edition played in 3 stages, gathered 261 players in preliminaries started in 1974. Final (1977-1979):<\/p>\n<p>1.L.Solarz-12,5\/15, 2.G.Pawi\u0144ski-11, 3.E.Krafczyk-11, etc &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2nd Cultural Cities TT (1980-1983)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So called Wroc\u0142aw Jubilee tournament. Team tournament of European cities of merit in culture and science organized\u00a0by Wroc\u0142aw.\u00a0Tournament gathered 9 teams, 4 players per team, TD J.Osuchowski\u00a0[KSzGK News Report 1981\/2]:<\/p>\n<p>1.&#8217;s-Hertogenbosch (NED)-23,5, 2.Tartu (URS)-22,5, 3.Gda\u0144sk (POL)-20,5, 4.Kharkiv (URS)-18,5, 5.Warszawa (POL)-14,5, 6.Debrecen (HUN)-12,5, 7.Wroc\u0142aw (POL)-12, 8.Essen (FRG)-10, 9.Helsinki (FIN)-9,<\/p>\n<p><strong>3rd Cultural Cities TT (1986-1989)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So called\u00a0Pozna\u0144 Jubilee tournament. Team tournament of European cities of merit in culture and science organized\u00a0by Pozna\u0144. Tournament gathered 11 teams, 4 players per team, TD R.S\u0142awi\u0144ski [KSzGK News Report 1981\/2; 1990]:<\/p>\n<p>1.Glasgow (SCO)-27,5, 2.&#8217;s-Hertogenbosch (NED)-25,5, 3.Budapest (HUN)-22, 4.Praga (CSR)-21,5, 5.Warszawa (POL)-20,5, 6.Lund (SWE)-19, 7.Arhus (DEN)-19, 8.Hamburg (FRG)-18, 9.Voronezh (URS)-18, 10.Pozna\u0144 (POL)-14,5, 11.Gda\u0144sk (POL)-13,5.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Henryk Swinarski Memorial (1980-1983)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Henryk Swinarski (16 VI 1906 &#8211; 17 I 1975), lawyer,\u00a0judge,\u00a0president of Polish CC Federation for many years (1951-1963). [KSzGK News Report 1984\/2]<\/p>\n<p>IM=6,5\/11; TD (IA) J.Danieyko (POL)<\/p>\n<p>1.W.Zagorovski (URS)-8,5\/11, 2.N.Karker (FRG)-7,5, 3.P.Bezzola (SUI)-7, 4.M.Kahn (GDR)-7, 5.A.Zmok\u0142y (POL)-7, 6.M.Braczko (POL)6,5, 7.P.Kenez (HUN)-5,5, 8.W.Bielecki (POL)-5,5, 9.V.Salceanu (ROM)-4,5, 10.L.Monostori (HUN)-4, 11.J.Babiak (POL)-3, 12.J.Jo\u0144czyk (POL)-0.<\/p>\n<p><strong>J\u00f3zef Bannet Memorial (1986-1990)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The international CC tournament in\u00a0tribute\u00a0to Dr. J\u00f3zef Bannet (1856-1922) \u2013\u00a0Polish lawyer\u00a0from Krzeszowice, cc player and theoretician, played in tournaments organized by magazines &#8220;Uber Land und Meer&#8221; late in the 19th century, one of the founders of Cracow Chess Club in 1893\u00a0[KSzGK News Report 1973\/3, p.32-34]. In 1895 this club\u00a0played cc game\u00a0with Lviv Chess Club (founded in 1895). Lviv\u00a0gained victory in\u00a0that game.\u00a0In 1910 the club played 2-game match with Poznan Chess Club (founded in 1907).\u00a0Poznan gained victory in it.<\/p>\n<p>GM=8,5\/12; TD T.Peretjatkowicz (POL);<\/p>\n<p>1.R.Mallee (FRG)-8,5 (45,75), 2.R.Skrobek (POL)-8,5 (44,75), 3.Jar.Je\u017cek (CSR)-8, 4.K.Engel (FRG)-7,5, 5.B.Bieluczyk (POL)-7, 6.K.Steijn (NED)-7, 7.P.Lehikoinen (FIN)-6, 8.H.Sarink (NED)-5,5, 9.A.Berggreen (DEN)-5, 10.S.Brz\u00f3zka (POL)-4,5, 11.R.Wolny (POL)-4,5, 12.R.Wikman (FIN)-3,5, 13.G.Szewczyk (POL)-2,5.<\/p>\n<p>Let me draw your attention to interesting fact,\u00a0that it was\u00a0the first start of Pertti Lehikoinen (20th World Champion, 2004-2011) in an international event as a GM. It was one of his worst events. He wrote that he probably forgot about\u00a0an old\u00a0principle: &#8220;Its is not enough that you are a grandmaster, you must play like a grandmaster&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jerzy Krzyszto\u0144 Memorial (1999-2004)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jerzy Krzyszto\u0144 (1940-1997) &#8211; GM from 1992, one of the best Polish players, first Polish player in World CCC final &#8211; 5th place in 7th\u00a0WC final\u00a0(1972-1976), 4th place in 12th WC final (1984-1991).<\/p>\n<p>1.R.Skrobek (POL)-11,5\/14, 2.G.Toro Solis de Ovando (CHI)-10, 3.A.Lepikhov (UKR)-9,5, 4.D.Lybin (BLR)-9,5, 5.J.Copie (ARG)-9, 6.M.J\u0119drzejowski (POL)-7,5, 7.P.Cimmino (ITA)-7,5, 8.J.de Mauro (USA)-7, 9.T.Szafraniec (POL)-7, 10.A.Vinje (NOR)-6,5, 11.M.Prizant (ENG)-5,5, 12.J.-U.Klugel (SUI)-5,5, 13.M.Jaworski (POL)-5, 14.H.Wohlfahrt (AUT)-3, 15.W.Sapa (POL)-1.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/tables.iccf.com\/invi\/Szachy.html\">Szachy Chess Cup<\/a> (2000-2003)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>cat.13, GM=8\/14, IM=5\/14; TD: Carlos Flores Guti\u00e9rrez (ESP)<\/p>\n<p>Tournament organized by the Polish CC Federation in the name of Piotr Kaczorowski, the owner and chief editor of &#8220;Szachy Chess&#8221; magazine fouded in 1993. Unfortunately, P.Kaczorowski withdrew silently from the event.<\/p>\n<p>1.M.Nimtz-9,5 (62,50) 2.C.Costa-9,5 (61,75) 3.S.Teichmeister-9,5 (60,00) 4.A.Lepikhov-8,5 5.C.Sender-8,5 6.J.Martin Clemente-7 7.J.J\u0119drzejczak-7 8.V.Andriulaitis-6,5 9.J.Mercadal Benejam-6,5 10.A.Bjuhr-6,5 11.J.Aldrete Lobo-6,5 12.A.Rauduve-6,5 13.J-C.Luers-6 14.H-E. v Kempen-6 15.P.Kaczorowski-1<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iccf-webchess.com\/EventCrossTable.aspx?id=5621\">Bogdan Sliwa Memorial<\/a> (2004-2006)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bogdan \u015aliwa (1922-2003) &#8211; double GM (CC-1996 and OTB-1987); six times OTB Champion of Poland (1947, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1960); Vice-champion in 1st Polish CC Championship (1948-50).<\/p>\n<p>TD: J\u00f3zef\u00a0 Lubas (POL)<\/p>\n<p>1.J.Konikowski (GER)-9\/14, 2.R.Wojtkowiak8,5, 3.M.J\u0119drzejowski-8, 4.D.Szczepankiewicz-8, 5.T.Baranowski-8, 6.G.Krawczyk-7,5, 7.R.Kurylo (LTU)-7, 8.A.Krzy\u017canowski (POL)-7, 9.R.Pierzak (POL)-7, 10.M.Jaworski (POL)-7, 11.A.Marcinkiewicz (POL)-7, 12.W.Krzy\u017canowski (POL)-6,5, 13.L.Ga\u0142kowski (POL)-6,5, 14.R.Czaja (POL)-4,5, 15.E.Bortnik (POL)-3,5.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. International Malopolska Cup (2005-2009)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(A-1, A-2, A-3, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iccf-webchess.com\/EventCrossTable.aspx?id=6040\">B-1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iccf-webchess.com\/EventCrossTable.aspx?id=6041\">B-2<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iccf-webchess.com\/EventCrossTable.aspx?id=6042\">C-1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iccf-webchess.com\/EventCrossTable.aspx?id=6043\">C-2<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>cat.9, GM=8\/11 SIM=6,5\/11 IM=5,5\/11; TD: R.S\u0142awi\u0144ski (POL)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iccf-webchess.com\/EventCrossTable.aspx?id=6037\">section A-1<\/a>: 1.N.Pi\u010duljan (CRO)-7,5, 2.Z.N\u00fdvlt (CZE)-7, 3.J.Trusewicz (POL)-7, 4.M.Oliveira (BRA)-7, 5.V.Ketola (FIN)-6, 6.H.-J.Isigkeit (GER)-6, 7.A.Gysi (SUI)-6, 8.S.Genga (ITA)-5,5, 9.Y.Yaroshenko (UKR)-5,5, 10.E.\u00dcksti (EST)-4,5, 11.S.Pasierb (GER)-3, 12.M.Tritt (POL)-1.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iccf-webchess.com\/EventCrossTable.aspx?id=6038\">section A-2<\/a>: 1.J.Bennborn (SWE)-8, 2.J.Stephan (GER)-8, 3.I.Chiru (ROU)-7,5, 4.T.Schwetlick (GER)-6,5, 5.T.Baranowski (POL)-6,5, 6.V.Baklanov (RUS)-5,5, 7.R.Wojtkowiak (POL)-5,5, 8.F.Ruppel (GER)-4,5, 9.K.Bochev (BUL)-4, 10.R.Kujawski (POL)-3,5, 11.J.-M.Dijon (FRA)-3,5, 12.M.Tritt (POL)-2.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iccf-webchess.com\/EventCrossTable.aspx?id=6039\">section A-3<\/a>: 1.U.Joppich (GER)-7,5, 2.S.Olsen (NOR)-7,5, 3.P.Cutillas (ESP)-7, 4.C.Pauwels (BEL)-6,5, 5.A.Davidov (BUL)-6, 6.K.Kolehmainen (FIN)-6, 7.S.Delavekouras (GRE)-5,5, 8.H.Prokopp (GER)-5,5, 9.T.Makowski (POL)-5, 10.D.Lozano (COL)-4, 11.G.Dobrei (ROU)-3, 12.M.Tritt (POL)-0,5.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MDK Malbork 20 years <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iccf-webchess.com\/EventCrossTable.aspx?id=11345\">Final<\/a> (2007-2008),<\/strong> SF (2005-2007)<\/p>\n<p>TD: J\u00f3zef\u00a0 Lubas (POL)<\/p>\n<p>1.B.Skonieczna (POL)-8,5, 2.R.Wojtkowiak (POL)-8, 3.H.-J.Taulien (GER )-7,5, 4.M.Marko (SVK)-7, 5.S.Bonetti (SCO)-5,5, 6.G.Manole (ROU)-5, 7.A.Sidenko (RUS)-5, 8.T.Dyda (POL)-4, 9.T.Klapiszewski (POL)-3, 10.F.G\u00f3mez Celdr\u00e1n (ESP)-1,5, 11.M.W\u0105torek (POL)-0.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Witold Bielecki Memorial\/ Team Tournament\u00a0(2012-?)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Team tournament for players\u00a0rated below\u00a02000, two stages &#8211; preliminaries and final.\u00a0Organized by\u00a0ICCF-Europa, TO: Caressa, Marco (ITA).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>start date: 25.01.2012;<\/li>\n<li>TD:\u00a0Mariusz Wojnar\u00a0(POL)<\/li>\n<li>22 teams\u00a0entries (only European countries could enter one national team),\u00a03 sections: each 7-8\u00a0teams (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iccf-webchess.com\/EventCrossTable.aspx?id=28114\">Preliminary 1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iccf-webchess.com\/EventCrossTable.aspx?id=28116\">Preliminary 2<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iccf-webchess.com\/EventCrossTable.aspx?id=28115\">Preliminary 3<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>final 11 teams<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Witold Bielecki\u00a0Memorial (2012-?)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>start date: 01.03.2012<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iccf-webchess.com\/EventCrossTable.aspx?id=26550\">Section Top players<\/a> &#8211; cat.16, GM=6\/12; TD: Carlos Flores Guti\u00e9rrez (ESP)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>start list (alphabetical order): S.Busemann (GER),\u00a0R.Hall (ENG), D.Hoeven (NED), D.Lafarga (ESP), R.Langeveld (NED), L.Ljubi\u010di\u0107 (CRO), A.Nickel (GER), N.Papenin (UKR), R.-R.Starke (GER), Z.Szczepa\u0144ski (POL),\u00a0M.Voss (GER), T.Wilczek (POL), H.-D.Wunderlich (GER).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iccf-webchess.com\/EventCrossTable.aspx?id=28068\">Section Bravo<\/a> at\u00a0cat.12, GM=7,5\/12;\u00a0TD: Hans-J\u00fcrgen Isigkeit (GER)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>list of participants (in alphabetical order): M.Besc\u00f3s (ESP), A.Bubir (UKR), S.Galanov (RUS), A.Haugen (NOR), K.K\u00f6gler (GER), A.Nekhaev (RUS), M.Noble (NZL), R.Pierzak (POL), M.S\u0105dowski (POL), A.Sch\u00f6n (POL), M.Sferle (ROU), J.Staniszewski (POL), Z.Straka (CZE)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Principal Achievements<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Poland as a team gained\u00a03 beautiful and exceptional results:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gold Medal in 8th Ladies Olympiad (2008-2010)\n<ul>\n<li>team: 1.B.Skonieczna, 2.A.Szczepaniak, 3.B.Lubas, 4.B.W\u00f3jcik-Wojtkowiak<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Bronze Medal in 13th Olympiad (2004-2009)\n<ul>\n<li>team: R.Skrobek, 2.M.J\u0119drzejowski, 3.W.Krzy\u017canowski, 4.D.Szczepankiewicz, 5.T.Szafraniec, 6.W.Koz\u0142owski<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Bronze Medal in 4th Ladies Olympiad (1992-1997)\n<ul>\n<li>team: 1.K.Radzikowska, 2.D.Pietrzak, 3.W.Zaj\u0105c-Makowiecka, 4.A.Szczepaniak<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>GM Jerzy Krzyszto\u0144 and ladies Ewa\u00a0G\u00f3r\u00adska and Maria G\u00f3r\u00adska were the first Poles who played in World Championship finals. It deserves to be mentioned here participation of three Poles (Wiktor Geier, Alexander Wagner\u00a0and Camenzind) in <a href=\"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/?page_id=564\">Propadanda Turnier 1928-1930<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Title holders<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>There is 90 titled players in Poland (end 2011): 8xGM, 36xSIM, 40xIM, 2xLGM, 4xILM. Besides 11xIA comes from Poland.\u00a0Full list you can find at page &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/?page_id=287\">Tytu\u0142y ICCF nadane Polakom<\/a>&#8220;. List is updated on regular basis.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Personalities<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>GM Stefan Brz\u00f3zka<\/strong><\/span> (born 05.10.1931) &#8211; first Polish CC grandmaster (1985);\u00a08th Champion of Poland (1965-66).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>GM Jerzy Krzyszto\u0144<\/strong><\/span> (1940-1997)\u00a0&#8211; N\u00b01 of Polish CC for a long time; GM-1992; 9th Champion of Poland (1966-67); 5th place in 7th World Championship final (1972-75); 4th place in 12th World Championship final (1984-90).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>GM Zygmunt Pioch<\/strong><\/span> (born 30.10.1939); GM-1991;\u00a0double Champion of Poland &#8211; 14th (1970-72) and 15th (1972-74).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>GM Bogdan \u015aliwa<\/strong><\/span> (1922-2003) &#8211; double GM (CC-1996 and OTB-1987); six times OTB Champion of Poland (1947, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1960); Vice-champion in 1st Polish CC Championship (1948-50).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>GM Ryszard Skrobek<\/strong><\/span> (born 04.07.1951) &#8211; GM-1990; OTB Champion of Poland (1977); 24th Champion\u00a0of Poland (1981-83); 13th Olympiad final (2004-2009), board 1 &#8211;\u00a0bronze medal for Poland.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>GM\u00a0Maciej Ni\u017cy\u0144ski<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0(born 1965) &#8211; GM-2000; 1st place\u00a0in WC17\/ct5 with amazing result 14\/16 (87,5%) and promotion to World Championship final.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>GM Jan Marcinkiewicz<\/strong><\/span> (born 08.05.1948) &#8211; GM-2006; 6th place in 23rd World Championship final (2007-2011).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>GM Zbigniew Szczepa\u0144ski<\/strong><\/span> (born 12.05.1957) &#8211; GM-2011; 52nd Champion of Poland (2009-2011), 1st Polish\u00a0GM participating in 16 category tournament (Witold Bielecki Memorial &#8211; start\u00a0date 01.03.2012).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>LGM Barbara Skonieczna<\/strong><\/span> (born 15.06.1957) &#8211; first Polish CC lady grandmaster LGM-2010; 8th Ladies Olympiad final (2008-2010), board 1 &#8211;\u00a0gold medal for Poland.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>LGM Alicja Szczepaniak<\/strong><\/span> (born 03.08.1953) &#8211;\u00a0second Polish CC lady grandmaster LGM-2011; 8th Ladies Olympiad final (2008-2010), board\u00a02 &#8211;\u00a0gold medal for Poland; 4th Ladies Olympiad final (1992-1997), board\u00a04 &#8211; bronze medal for Poland.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>ILM Krystyna Radzikowska<\/strong><\/span> (1931-2006) &#8211; ILM-1995, OTB WGM-1984;\u00a09 (!)\u00a0times OTB Lady Champion of Poland (1951,\u00a01952, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1966, 1969);\u00a04th Ladies Olympiad final (1992-1997), board\u00a01 &#8211; bronze medal for Poland.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>ILM Anna Jurczy\u0144ska<\/strong><\/span> (1926-2009) &#8211; ILM-1977, OTB IM-1981;\u00a05 (!) times OTB Lady Champion of Poland (1962, 1965, 1973, 1974, 1978);\u00a01st Ladies Olympiad final (1974-1979), board 1 &#8211; individual result 5,0\/7 (and ILM title).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>IM &amp; IA Witold Bielecki<\/strong><\/span> (1947-2008) &#8211;\u00a0president of the Polish Correspondence Chess Federation and Polish delegate to ICCF, correspondence chess player and official since 1964, IM since 1996 and IA since 1978, member and chairman of several ICCF working groups and committees\/ commissions (Tournaments, Tournament Rules, Playing Rules, Appeals); performed function as a national team captain many times; directed hundreds of tournaments, including eight editions of World Championship final (from 15 to 23, except of 19); laid down main effort as TO and TD for three World Cups (3rd, 6th and 7th) with total amount of 6.222 (sic!) entries; in 1998 at ICCF Congress in Riga (Latvia) awarded him with \u201cBertl von Massow\u201d medal in Gold for 15 years meritorious work for ICCF; great chess friend of us,\u00a0always ready to assist you.<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<div class='chessboard-wrapper'><textarea id='pgn4web_b919fcd4' style='display:none;' cols='40' rows='8'>   [Event \"Franciszek Jadasz-mem I\"]   [Site \"corr\"]   [Date \"1977\"]   [Round \"\"]   [White \"Bielecki, Witold\"]   [Black \"Skrobek, Ryszard\"]   [Result \"1-0\"]   [Eco \"E45\"]   [Annotator \"Bielecki\"]   [Source \"\"]   {Commented by Bielecki. The old game between future IM and President of the Polish CC Federation vs.   the future GM and OTB national champion, but in 1977} 1.d4 Nf6   2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 {Rubinstein variation} b6 5.Nge2 Ba6   ( {more popular is} 5...Bb7 ) 6.a3 Bxc3+ ( {perhaps better is} 6...Be7) 7.Nxc3 d5 8.b3 O-O 9.Be2 ( 9.a4 {recommended by Botvinnik that was played vs. Smyslov in the 1957 World Championship match}   Nc6 10.Bd3 dxc4 11.bxc4 Qd7 12.O-O Rfd8 13.Bb2 {$14} {S.Garcia - J.Adamski, Polanica Zdroj 1974}   ) Nc6 10.a4 dxc4 ( 10...Re8 11.Bb2 dxc4 12.bxc4 Na5 13.Nb5 c6   14.Na3 {$14} {Taimanov - Kuzmin, Erewan 1975} ) ( 10...e5 {!?}   {G. Popov} ) 11.bxc4 Na5 {?} ( {better is} 11...Qd7 12.Nb5 Rfd8 13.Bb2 Na5 14.Qc2 {Botvinnik-Smyslov, 15th game of their 1957 match} ) 12.Ba3 ( {possible is}12.Bb2 {as in Tatai - Hamman, Venecia 1966} ) Re8 13.Nb5 c6 14.Nd6 Re7 {The national training bulletin evaluated back in 1966 this position as good for... Black!}   15.O-O {played by Donner vs. Kupper, Venecia 1967}   ( 15.e4 Rd7 16.e5 Ne8 17.Qc2 Nb7 $16 {Kuzmin - Ree, Kiev 1978} )   c5 16.e4 {!} ( 16.dxc5 bxc5 17.Bxc5 Rd7 ) Rd7 ( 16...Qxd6 17.e5   Qd8 18.exf6 Rd7 $13 ) 17.e5 Ne8 18.dxc5 bxc5 19.Bxc5 Bxc4 20.Rb1   Rc8 21.Nxc8 {!} Rxd1 22.Ne7+ Kh8 ({helpless is} 22...Qxe7 23.Bxe7 Rxb1 24.Rxb1 Bxe2 25.Rb8 {$16}) 23.Rfxd1 Qc7 24.Bd6 Qd7   25.Bxc4 Nxc4 26.Rd4 Na5 27.Rb8 g6 28.Bc5 Qc7 {If} 29.Rxe8+   Kg7 30.Nc6 {!} h5 31.Be7 {$18} {This game won the first prize in the great national tournament which assembled 263 players.}   1-0   <\/textarea><iframe src='https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/plugins\/embed-chessboard\/pgn4web\/board.html?am=n&amp;d=3000&amp;ig=f&amp;iv=0&amp;ih=s&amp;ss=26&amp;ps=d&amp;pf=d&amp;lch=E6CC98&amp;dch=AD826A&amp;bbch=E0E0E0&amp;hm=b&amp;hch=ABABAB&amp;bd=c&amp;cbch=F0F0F0&amp;ctch=696969&amp;hd=j&amp;md=f&amp;tm=13&amp;fhch=000000&amp;fhs=14&amp;fmch=190CCC&amp;fcch=595959&amp;hmch=E0E0E0&amp;fms=14&amp;fcs=m&amp;cd=i&amp;bch=FFFFFF&amp;fp=13&amp;hl=t&amp;fh=400&amp;fw=p&amp;pi=pgn4web_b919fcd4' frameborder='0' width='100%' height='400' scrolling='no' marginheight='0' marginwidth='0'>your web browser and\/or your host do not support iframes as required to display the chessboard; alternatively your wordpress theme might suppress the html iframe tag from articles or excerpts<\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>======================<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1299\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Bielecki-Witek-01.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1299\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1299\" title=\"Bielecki Witek\" src=\"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Bielecki-Witek-01-300x287.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Bielecki-Witek-01-300x287.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Bielecki-Witek-01-150x143.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Bielecki-Witek-01-400x383.jpg 400w, https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Bielecki-Witek-01.jpg 492w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1299\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Witold Bielecki, former Poland\u2019s delegate to ICCF and World CC Championship Tournament Director<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p>Name of Federation: Komisja Szachowej Gry Korespondencyjnej PZSzach (KSzGK)<\/p>\n<p>Year of Foundation: 1933<\/p>\n<p>ICCF Delegate and E-Mail contact: Mariusz Wojnar (mariusz.wojnar@gmail.com)<\/p>\n<p>Website: http:\/\/kszgk.com\/<\/p>\n<p>Article provided by: Mariusz Wojnar<\/p>\n<p>Introduction <\/p>\n<p>Szachy (Eng: Chess) is a poem written by Jan Kochanowski (Polish poet), first published between 1562 and 1566.<\/p>\n<p>Piece of the second edition of [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":704,"menu_order":25,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/838"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":108,"href":"https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3868,"href":"https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/838\/revisions\/3868"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}