12th Polish Team Chess Championship: 1956 |
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12th Polish Team Chess Championship "the extracted class" (see all-time tournament summary) |
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Date: | Preliminaries: summer 1956 Final: 7th October 1956 - 13th January 1957 |
City: | league system |
Venue: | - |
Tournament Director: | N/A |
Chief Arbiter: | Preliminaries: Mr. Marian Menchard (POL) Final: N/A |
Teams participating: | Preliminaries: 21 (3 teams did not show up) Final: 11 (ŁKS-Włókniarz Łóddź did not show up due to financial constrains) |
Players participating: | N/A |
Games played: | Preliminaries: 460 (including forteits) Final: 385 (two matches and numerous games were forfeited) |
Competition format: | 24 teams were promoted from regional championships to form four preliminary groups. Each preliminary group was 6 team ten board round robin. Four preliminaries' winners qualified to form 12 team seven board round robin final along with top 8 from 1955 championship. Teams ranked 9th-12th did not gain automatic qualification to 1956 championship and were set to qualify through next year's preliminaries. |
Final order decided by: | 1. Match points; 2. Game points |
Time control: | N/A |
(1) Legion Warszawa (2) f. Ogniwo Kraków (Cracovia-KKSz) (3) Olsza Kraków (4) Lech Poznań |
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bd | name | club | pts | gms |
1. | Balcarek, Witold | STKT | 9 | 10 |
2. | Pietrusiak, Bogdan | LECH | 6½ | 9 |
3. | Branicki, Ignacy | LWAR | 6½ | 9 |
4. | Michalak, W. | AZSW | 7½ | 9 |
5. | Dyląg, S. | OLKR | 5 | 7 |
6. | Jurkiewicz, W. | AZSK | 4 | 5 |
res. | Słobodzian, Orest | OLKR | 4½ | 5 |
wom | Litmanowicz, Mirosława | LWAR | 8½ | 10 |