1. Szymon Winawer (1838)

Polish Chess Player

Polish born German chess champion who was one of the greatest players in the world during his prime.

2. Teodor Regedziński (1894)

Polish Chess Player

A German-born Polish chess master was a member of Polish team at four Chess Olympiads during the 1920's and 30's.

3. Mateusz Bartel (1985)

Polish Chess Player

Mateusz Bartel is a Polish chess player who holds the title of International Grandmaster. He won the under-18 European championship in 2003. Bartel learned to play the game at age...

4. Grzegorz Gajewski (1985)

Polish Chess Player

Grzegorz Gajewski is a Polish chess player holding the title of Grandmaster. He was a member of the Polish team at the 38th Chess Olympiad in Dresden where he played...

5. Tomasz Markowski (chess player) (1975)

Polish Chess Player

Tomasz Markowski is a Polish chess Grandmaster.

6. Piotr Murdzia (1975)

Polish Chess Player

Piotr Murdzia is a chess International Master from Poland. He was awarded the IM title in 1994. He won tournaments in Świdnica and Legnica making two grandmaster's norms. He is...

7. Iweta Rajlich (1981)

Polish Chess Player

Iweta Rajlich is a Polish chess International Master and Woman Grandmaster multiple winner of Women Chess Championships of Poland. As of April 2009 she is the 54th ranked female chess...

8. Jerzy Lewi (1949)

Polish Chess Player

Jerzy Lewi was a Polish chess master. He won five-times Polish Junior championships in 1965–1969. He took 3rd behind Anatoly Karpov and Andras Adorjan at Groningen 1967. In 1968 he...

9. Kasimir de Weydlich (1859)

Polish Chess Player

Casimir de Weydlich was a Polish chess master. Born into an aristocratic family in Skotyniany near Kamenets Podolskiy he began his chess career in the early 1880s. He tied for...

10. Kazimierz Makarczyk (Unknow)

Polish Chess Player

Kazimierz Makarczyk was a Polish chess master. In 1922 he took 3rd in Warsaw. In 1926 he finished 10th in the 1st Polish chess championship played in Warsaw. The event...

11. Włodzimierz Schmidt (1943)

Polish Chess Player

łodzimierz Schmidt is a Polish chess grandmaster. He played for Poland 14 times in Chess Olympiads between 1962 and 1994. He was Polish Champion seven times: in 1971 1974 1975...

12. Aleksander Wojtkiewicz (1963)

Polish Chess Player

Aleksander Wojtkiewicz was a Polish chess grandmaster. He was born in Latvia. In his early teens he was already a strong player; a student of ex-world champion Mikhail Tal whom...

13. Róża Herman (1902)

Polish Chess Player

Róża Maria Herman was a Polish chess mistress. In June 1935 she took 4th at the 1st Polish Championship in Warsaw. In August 1935 she tied for 6th at the...

14. Bogdan Śliwa (1922)

Polish Chess Player

Bogdan Śliwa was a Polish chess master. Śliwa won the championship of Poland six times. In 1946 he won the first Polish Chess Championship after World War II in Sopot....

15. Hieronim Czarnowski (Unknow)

Polish Chess Player

Hieronim Ignacy Czarnowski was a Polish chess master and activist. He lived in Warsaw where he played among others with Alexander Petrov and Szymon Winawer. After the failure of the...

16. Regina Gerlecka (1913)

Polish Chess Player

Regina Gerlecka was a Polish chess master. In January 1935 she won Warsaw championships. In June 1935 she won the 1st Polish Women Championship in Warsaw. In August 1935 she...

17. Gersz Rotlewi (1889)

Polish Chess Player

Gersz Rotlewi was a Polish chess master.

18. Gersz Salwe (1862)

Polish Chess Player

Gersz Salwe was a Polish chess player.

19. Robert Kempiński (1977)

Polish Chess Player

Robert Kempiński is a Polish chess grandmaster. At the age of 14 he won the Polish junior championship in his age category and the year after that he won the...

20. Alexander Flamberg (1880)

Polish Chess Player

Alexander Flamberg was a Polish chess master.

21. Dawid Daniuszewski (1885)

Polish Chess Player

Dawid Daniuszewski was a Polish chess master.

22. Dawid Przepiórka (1880)

Polish Chess Player

Dawid Przepiórka was a prominent Polish chess player of the early twentieth century.

23. Leon Kremer (1901)

Polish Chess Player

Leon Kremer was a Polish chess master. He played several times in the Warsaw championships and won in 1929. He also took 6th in 1925 took 4th in 1926 shared...

24. Karol Piltz (1903)

Polish Chess Player

Karol Piltz was a Polish chess master. He played for Poland in 1st unofficial Chess Olympiad at Paris 1924 tied for 3rd-7th in the 1st Polish Chess Championship at Warsaw...

25. Dariusz Świercz (1994)

Polish Chess Player

Dariusz Świercz is a Polish chess grandmaster. He is a chess prodigy being one of the youngest grandmasters in history and the youngest Polish grandmaster of all time achieving the...

26. Achilles Frydman (1905)

Polish Chess Player

Achilles Frydman was a Polish chess player.

27. Jerzy Jagielski (1897)

Polish Chess Player

Jerzy Jagielski was a Polish chess master and journalist. He played several times in Warsaw City championships where tied for 12-13th in 1926 10-11th in 1930 5-6th in 1931 7-8th...

28. Paweł Blehm (1980)

Polish Chess Player

Paweł Blehm is a Polish chess grandmaster. He took part in the FIDE World Chess Championship 2000 but was knocked out in the first round by Smbat Lputian. He played...

29. Emanuel Rubinstein (1897)

Polish Chess Player

Emanuel Rubinstein was a Polish chess master. In the 1920s Emanuel Rubinstein from Cracow was a collaborator of the Wiener Schachzeitung. He took 4th at Cracow 1926. He played for...

30. Izaak Appel (Unknow)

Polish Chess Player

Izaak Appel was a Polish chess master.

31. Stanisław Kohn (1895)

Polish Chess Player

Stanisław Kohn was a Polish chess master. Kohn played for Poland in 1st unofficial Chess Olympiad at Paris 1924. In 1925 he won the Warsaw Championship. In 1926 he tied...

32. Kalikst Morawski (Unknow)

Polish Chess Player

Kalikst von Morawski was a Polish chess master. Born in a village Boryszkowce Galicia he studied law in the Lviv University from 1877 to 1884. He moved to Stanislau in...

33. Józef Dominik (1894)

Polish Chess Player

Józef Dominik was a Polish chess master. Born in Dobczyce he was educated in Crakow.

34. Paulino Frydman (1905)

Polish Chess Player

Paulino Frydman was a Polish chess master.

35. Jakub Heilpern (Unknow)

Polish Chess Player

Jakub Heilpern was a Polish chess master. Born into a Jewish family near Warsaw he was educated in a high school gymnasium in Warsaw studied in ETH Zurich in 1870–72...

36. Jakub Kolski (1899)

Polish Chess Player

Jakub Kolski was a Polish chess master. In the period 1920-1930s Kolski was one of the strongest Lodz chess players. In 1922 he won ahead of Dawid Daniuszewski in Lodz....

37. Henryk Friedman (Unknow)

Polish Chess Player

Henryk Friedman was a Polish chess master. He lived in Lviv. In 1926–1934 Friedman won seven times in succession the Championship of Lviv but 1930 when he took 2nd...

38. Zdzisław Belsitzmann (1890)

Polish Chess Player

Zdzisław Belsitzmann was a Polish chess master. Belsitzmann lived in Warsaw where he played several times in tournaments with top Polish chess masters. In 1913 he drew a match against...

39. Antoni Wojciechowski (1905)

Polish Chess Player

Antoni Wojciechowski was a Polish chess master. He was a well-known player in Poznań in the 1920s and 1930s. In 1926 he tied for 2nd-3rd in the Poznań chess championship....

40. Aron Zabłudowski (Unknow)

Polish Chess Player

Aron Zabłudowski was a Polish chess master. He was a co-organizer of the Białystok Chess Club in September 1924 and became a secretary of the club in 1937. He won...

41. Henryk Pogorieły (Unknow)

Polish Chess Player

Henryk Pogorieły was a Polish chess master. He took 4th in the Warsaw Championship in 1928. Pogorieły along with other members of the Warsaw team won gold medal in the...

42. Izaak Towbin (1899)

Polish Chess Player

Izaak Towbin was a Polish chess master and organizer. Born in Korets Ukraine into a Jewish family he entered a gymnasium in Kiev and then Kiev University.

43. Józef Żabiński (1860)

Polish Chess Player

Józef Żabiński was a Polish chess master and problemist. Born in Warsaw he was educated in a high school gymnasium and graduated in Law Faculty at the Imperial University of...

44. Michał Olszewski (1989)

Polish Chess Player

Michał Olszewski is a Polish chess player holding the title of Grandmaster. He won the bronze medal at the 2009 World Junior Chess Championship played in Argentina.

45. Krystyna Hołuj-Radzikowska (1931)

Polish Chess Player

Krystyna Hołuj-Radzikowska was a Polish chess Woman Grandmaster. She was nine times Polish Champion. Krystyna tied for 15–16th at the Moscow 1955 Candidates Tournament which was won by Olga Rubtsova.

46. Kamil Mitoń (1984)

Polish Chess Player

Kamil Mitoń is a Polish chess Grandmaster. In 1996 he won the World Chess U12 Championship in Minorca. He won the tournaments 2000 in Cannes/France and 2005 in Bajade de...

47. Artur Popławski (1860)

Polish Chess Player

Artur Popławski was a Polish chess master. He started his studies at Imperial University of Warsaw in 1879 and moved to ETH Zurich in 1884. In 1883/84 he took second...

48. Bartłomiej Macieja (1977)

Polish Chess Player

Bartłomiej Macieja is a chess Grandmaster from Poland.

49. Bartosz Soćko (1978)

Polish Chess Player

Bartosz Soćko is a Polish chess Grandmaster. In 2008 Soćko became Polish champion.

50. Radosław Wojtaszek (1987)

Polish Chess Player

Radosław Wojtaszek is a Polish chess Grandmaster. In 2004 he won the European Youth Chess Championship the World Youth Chess Championships and the Cracovia Open with 7½/9.