4th Polish Team Chess Championship: Łódź 1947

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Basic data

4th Polish Team Chess Championship
(see all-time tournament summary)
Date: 3rd - 10th November 1947
City: Łódź, Poland
Venue: N/A
Organizers: Mr. Nikołajew, Mr. Konstanty Wróblewski, Mr. Sznyk, Mr. Mikuła
Chief Arbiter: N/A
Teams participating: 10 (only cities and regions could participate)
Players participating: 76
Games played: 270
Competition format: Six board round robin.
Final order decided by: 1. Game points; 2. Match points
Time control: N/A
Downloadable game file: 47poland.zip (only some games are available)

Tournament review

The 4th championship took place in Łódź, the true capital of post-was chess in Poland. All of top players participated (plase note there were no more World-class Jewish players in Poland) in a six board round-robin. The organizing body took all their efforts to greet the players with warm hospitality, not an easy task in the times of struggling post-War economy. As it happened, the home side took easy win picking 8 match wins and Pomorze took surprise second. Their leader Szapiel (1921-1954) gave superb performance at top board (7 out of 9). Kraków came in disappointing third. Warsaw were humiliated losing 6-0 to Łódź and 5½-½ to Katowice.

Best board results

1st Board
no. name flag code pts gms %
1. Szapiel, Henryk POMR 7 9 77.8
2. Sojka, Emil KATW 6 9 66.7
3. Pytlakowski, Andrzej LODZ 4½ 7 64.3

2nd Board
no. name flag code pts gms %
1. Tarnowski, Alfred KRAK 7 9 77.8
2. Grynfeld, Izaak LODZ 6½ 9 72.2
3. Byrtek, Emanuel KATW 6 9 66.7

3rd Board
no. name flag code pts gms %
1. Jurkiewicz, Antoni POMR 7 8 87.5
2. Arłamowski, Edward KRAK 7 9 77.8
3. Gawlikowski, Stanisław WARS 6½ 9 72.2
3. Makarczyk, Kazimierz LODZ 6½ 9 72.2

4th Board
no. name flag code pts gms %
1. Gadaliński, Jan LODZ 8 9 88.9
2. Kowalski, Jan POMR 6 8 75.0
3. Pokorski, Henryk KATW 5½ 9 61.1

5th Board
no. name flag code pts gms %
1. Matkowski, Wiktor LODZ 6 7 85.7
2. Chybicki, Feliks POMR 6 8 75.0
3. Kwilecki, Andrzej KRAK 6 9 66.7
3. Damański, Franciszek KATW 4 6 66.7

6th Board
no. name flag code pts gms %
1. Kwapisz, Stanisław LODZ 5 5 100.0
1. Piechota, Jan LODZ 5 5 100.0
3. Ratajczak POZN 5½ 8 68.8