Polish Champ

Individual Polish Chess Championship is the most important Polish chess tournament, aiming at selecting the best chess players in Poland. Based on the results of the tournament (mainly), the Polish Chess Federation selects the national and subsequently the olympiad team.

The first men's championship took place in 1926, and the first women's event in 1935, both in Warsaw. Between the First and the Second World War, four men's finals and two women's took place. After the Second World War, the tournament has taken part annually, with minor exceptions. In most cases, they are round-robin tournaments, where men's groups are of 14-16 players, while the womens' are 12 to 14. There were only four Swiss system tournaments in men's tournament history (1975, 1976, 1977, and 1979) and seven in women's (1959, 1965, 1966, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978). Twice (1937 men and 1962 women) final tournaments attracted international players, however in 1962 medals were awarded only to Polish women players.

Winners
Year Men Women
1926 Dawid -Przepiórka
1927 Akiba -Rubinstein
1935 Ksawery Tartakower - Regina Gerlecka
1937 Ksawery Tartakower- Regina Gerlecka
1946 Bogdan -Śliwa
1948 Kazimierz -Makarczyk
1949 Kazimierz Plater - Roza Herman
1950 Wiktor Balcarek - Roza Herman
1951 Bogdan Śliwa - Krystyna Holuj
1952 Bogdan Śliwa -Krystyna Holuj
1953 Bogdan Śliwa - Krystyna Holuj
1954 Bogdan Śliwa- Wladyslawa Górska
1955 Józef Gromek -Krystyna Holuj
1956 Kazimierz Plater - Krystyna Holuj
1957 Kazimierz Plater - Krystyna Holuj
1958 Henryka Konarkowska
1959 Stefan Witkowski - Krystyna Holuj
1960 Bogdan Śliwa - Henryka Konarkowska*)
1961 Alfred Tarnowski- Apolonia Litwinska
1962 Witold Balcerowski- Anna Jurczynska
1963 Jacek Bednarski - Henryka Konarkowska*)
1964 Zbigniew Doda - Henryka Konarkowska
1965 Witold Balcerowski - Anna Jurczynska
1966 Jerzy Kostro - Krystyna Holuj-Radzikowska
1967 Zbigniew Doda -Elzbieta Kowalska
1968 Romuald Grabczewski - Miroslawa Litmanowicz
1969 Jerzy Lewi - Krystyna Holuj-Radzikowska
1970 Jerzy Kostro - Bozena Pytel
1971 Wlodzimierz Schmidt - Hanna Erenska-Radzewska
1972 Krzysztof Pytel -Hanna Erenska-Radzewska
1973 Krzysztof Pytel -Anna Jurczynska
1974 Wlodzimierz Schmidt - Anna Jurczynska
1975 Wlodzimierz Schmidt- Grazyna Szmacinska
1976 Aleksander Sznapik -Grazyna Szmacinska
1977 Ryszard Skrobek -Hanna Erenska-Radzewska
1978 Adam Kuligowski -Anna Jurczynska
1979 Jan Przewoznik - Hanna Erenska-Radzewska
1980 Aleksander Sznapik - Hanna Erenska-Radzewska
1981 Wlodzimierz Schmidt - Grazyna Szmacinska
1982 Jan Adamski -Agnieszka Brustman
1983 Zbigniew Szymczak -Grazyna Szmacinska
1984 Aleksander Sznapik - Agnieszka Brustman
1985 Ignacy Nowak -Malgorzata Wiese
1986 Marek Hawelko - Grazyna Szmacinska
1987 Robert Kuczyński - Agnieszka Brustman
1988 Wlodzimierz Schmidt - Grazyna Szmacinska
1989 Aleksander Wojtkiewicz - Joanna Detko
1990 Wlodzimierz Schmidt - Bozena Sikora-Gizynska
1991 Aleksander Sznapik - Czeslawa Grochot
1992 Jacek Gdanski -Krystyna Dabrowska
1993 Tomasz Markowski - Barbara Kaczorowska
1994 Wlodzimierz Schmidt - Magdalena Guzkowska
1995 Aleksander Wojtkiewicz - Monika Bobrowska
1996 Klaudiusz Urban - Agnieszka Brustman
1997 Robert Kempinski -Joanna Dworakowska
1998 Tomasz Markowski - Joanna Dworakowska
1999 Tomasz Markowski -Iweta Radziewicz
2000 Michal Krasenkow - Iweta Radziewicz
2001 Robert Kempinski -Joanna Dworakowska
2002 Michal Krasenkow - Iweta Radziewicz
2003 Tomasz Markowski Marta Zielinska
2004 Bartlomiej Macieja -Monika Socko
2005 Radoslaw Wojtaszek - Iweta Radziewicz
2006 Mateusz Bartel -Jolanta Zawadzka
2007 Tomasz Markowski - Iweta Radziewicz