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74-15057: Is a chess competition held annually in Poland. Medal winners Men [ edit ] Lp Year Location I place II place III place 1 1966 Łódź Jacek Bednarski Romuald Grąbczewski Włodzimierz Schmidt 2 1967 Wrocław Włodzimierz Schmidt Jacek Bednarski Bogdan Śliwa 3 1968 Kielce Jacek Bednarski Włodzimierz Schmidt Jerzy Lewi 4 1969 Kraków Włodzimierz Schmidt Przemysław Ereński Jacek Bednarski 5 1970 Poznań Włodzimierz Schmidt Ryszard Drozd Jan Adamski 6 1971 Bydgoszcz Włodzimierz Schmidt Krzysztof Pytel Przemysław Ereński 7 1972 Lubliniec Włodzimierz Schmidt Jan Adamski Władysław Schinzel 8 1973 Łódź Ignacy Nowak Waldemar Jagodziński Andrzej Sydor 9 1974 Łódź Włodzimierz Schmidt Waldemar Jagodziński Przemysław Ereński 10 1975 Bydgoszcz Jan Adamski Jacek Bielczyk Jerzy Konikowski 11 1976 Piotrków Tryb. Aleksander Sznapik Zbigniew Księski Włodzimierz Schmidt 12 1977 Częstochowa Włodzimierz Schmidt Jacek Bednarski Waldemar Świć 13 1978 Kalisz Aleksander Sznapik Włodzimierz Schmidt Roman Tomaszewski 14 1979 Kalisz Włodzimierz Schmidt Krzysztof Pytel Jacek Bielczyk 15 1980 Kalisz Włodzimierz Schmidt Jerzy Kubień Waldemar Świć 16 1981 Bydgoszcz Włodzimierz Schmidt Andrzej Łuczak Stanisław Kostyra 17 1982 Katowice Waldemar Świć Artur Sygulski Włodzimierz Schmidt 18 1983 Warsaw Jan Adamski Artur Sygulski Włodzimierz Schmidt 19 1984 Bydgoszcz Włodzimierz Schmidt Jan Adamski Ignacy Nowak 20 1985 Kalisz Włodzimierz Schmidt Henryk Dobosz Jan Adamski 21 1986 Kalisz Włodzimierz Schmidt Bogusław Sygulski Ignacy Nowak 22 1987 Bydgoszcz Ignacy Nowak Zbigniew Księski Jacek Bielczyk 23 1988 Katowice Włodzimierz Schmidt Artur Sygulski Ignacy Nowak 24 1989 Miętne Stanisław Kostyra Karol Pinkas Józef Pietkiewicz 25 1990 Gdynia Krzysztof Żołnierowicz Jan Kiedrowicz Franciszek Borkowski 26 1991 Poznań Włodzimierz Schmidt Jacek Gdański Ignacy Nowak 27 1992 Legnica Marek Matlak Waldemar Świć Włodzimierz Schmidt 28 1993 Kalisz Tomasz Markowski Andrzej Maciejewski Mirosław Grabarczyk 29 1994 Głogów Mirosław Grabarczyk Paweł Jaracz Marek Matlak 30 1995 Racibórz Aleksander Wojtkiewicz Tomasz Markowski Jacek Gdański 31 1996 Łuków Paweł Jaracz Marek Oliwa Klaudiusz Urban 32 1997 Poznań Włodzimierz Schmidt Paweł Blehm Bartosz Soćko 33 1998 Kędzierzyn-Koźle Jacek Gdański Bartosz Soćko Marek Oliwa 34 1999 Łódź Michał Krasenkow Paweł Jaracz Robert Kempiński 35 2000 Żnin Jacek Gdański Klaudiusz Urban Michał Krasenkow 36 2001 Brzeg Dolny Michał Krasenkow Bartosz Soćko Jacek Gdański 2002 not held 37 2003 Jaworzno Paweł Jaracz Mateusz Bartel Bartosz Soćko 2004 not held 38 2005 Polanica-Zdrój Marek Matlak Artur Jakubiec Stanisław Zawadzki 39 2006 Koszalin Radosław Wojtaszek Bartłomiej Macieja Mateusz Bartel 40 2007 Mielno Tomasz Warakomski Kamil Mitoń Dominik Orzech 41 2008 Racibórz Jakub Czakon Dariusz Świercz Kamil Mitoń 42 2009 Bydgoszcz Tomasz Markowski Bartłomiej Heberla Dominik Orzech 43 2010 Myślibórz Bartłomiej Heberla Bartosz Soćko Wojciech Moranda 44 2011 Katowice Bartosz Soćko Dariusz Świercz Paweł Jaracz 45 2012 Bydgoszcz Bartosz Soćko Maciej Klekowski Grzegorz Gajewski 46 2013 Bydgoszcz Kacper Piorun Krzysztof Bulski Mirosław Grabarczyk 47 2014 Bydgoszcz Paweł Jaracz Rafał Antoniewski Aleksander Miśta 48 2015 Lublin Bartosz Soćko Aleksander Miśta Łukasz Cyborowski 49 2016 Lublin Łukasz Cyborowski Zbigniew Pakleza Bartosz Soćko 50 2017 Piotrków Trybunalski Wojciech Moranda Andrei Maksimenko (UKR) Marcin Tazbir 51 2018 Szczawno-Zdrój Marcin Sieciechowicz Kamil Plichta Piotr Brodowski 52 2019 Katowice Radosław Wojtaszek Maciej Klekowski Igor Janik 53 2020 Trzcianka Maciej Klekowski Michał Krasenkow Igor Janik 2021 not held 54 2022 Suwałki Grzegorz Nasuta Jakub Kosakowski Kacper Żochowski 54 2023 Suwałki Jakub Kosakowski Krzysztof Jakubowski Adrian Budzisz Medal winners Women [ edit ] Lp Year Location I place II place III place 1 1972 Lubliniec Lucyna Krawcewicz Ewa Nagrocka Gerda Mucha 2 1978 Piotrków Tryb. Hanna Ereńska-Radzewska Bożena Sikora Małgorzata Wiese 3 1979 Kalisz Hanna Ereńska-Radzewska Hanna Jagodzińska Grażyna Szmacińska 4 1980 Kalisz Hanna Ereńska-Radzewska Grażyna Szmacińska Agnieszka Brustman 5 1981 Bydgoszcz Hanna Ereńska-Radzewska Grażyna Szmacińska Agnieszka Brustman 6 1982 Katowice Agnieszka Brustman Hanna Ereńska-Radzewska Grażyna Szmacińska 7 1983 Warsaw Grażyna Szmacińska Agnieszka Brustman Halina Maziarka 8 1984 Bydgoszcz Agnieszka Brustman Bożena Sikora-Giżyńska Dorota Konieczka 9 1985 Kalisz Hanna Ereńska-Radzewska Grażyna Szmacińska Agnieszka Brustman 10 1986 Kalisz Hanna Ereńska-Radzewska Grażyna Szmacińska Liliana Leszner 11 1987 Bydgoszcz Liliana Leszner Grażyna Szmacińska Halina Jałowiec 12 1988 Katowice Grażyna Szmacińska Liliana Leszner Bożena Sikora-Giżyńska 13 1989 Miętne Hanna Ereńska-Radzewska Bożena Sikora-Giżyńska Joanna Strzałka 14 1990 Gdynia Liliana Leszner Halina Jałowiec Danuta Kłusek 15 1991 Poznań Hanna Ereńska-Radzewska Joanna Jagodzińska Grażyna Szmacińska 16 1992 Legnica Hanna Ereńska-Radzewska Grażyna Szmacińska Agnieszka Brustman 17 1993 Kalisz Olimpia Bartosik Hanna Ereńska-Radzewska Barbara Kaczorowska 18 1994 Głogów Hanna Ereńska-Radzewska Agnieszka Brustman Marta Zielińska 19 1995 Konin Hanna Ereńska-Radzewska Marta Zielińska Agnieszka Brustman 20 1996 Łuków Agnieszka Brustman Joanna Dworakowska Hanna Ereńska-Radzewska 21 1997 Poznań Joanna Dworakowska Monika Bobrowska Marta Zielińska 22 1998 Kędzierzyn-Koźle Monika Bobrowska Joanna Dworakowska Hanna Ereńska-Radzewska 23 1999 Łódź Monika Bobrowska Agnieszka Brustman Jolanta Guzik 24 2000 Żnin Monika Soćko Dalia Blimke Katarzyna Jurkiewicz 25 2001 Brzeg Dolny Monika Soćko Joanna Dworakowska Agnieszka Brustman 26 2002 Rybnik Joanna Dworakowska Monika Soćko Beata Kądziołka 27 2003 Rybnik Monika Soćko Marta Zielińska Joanna Dworakowska 2004 not held 28 2005 Polanica-Zdrój Beata Andrejczuk Karina Szczepkowska Marta Zielińska 29 2006 Koszalin Klaudia Kulon Joanna Majdan Maria Szymańska 30 2007 Mielno Joanna Dworakowska Joanna Majdan Magdalena Kozak 31 2008 Racibórz Joanna Worek Monika Gonsior Karina Szczepkowska 32 2009 Bydgoszcz Joanna Worek Klaudia Kulon Monika Soćko 33 2010 Myślibórz Joanna Węglarz Joanna Worek Jolanta Guzik 34 2011 Katowice Joanna Majdan-Gajewska Marta Michna Agnieszka Matras-Clement 35 2012 Bydgoszcz Monika Soćko Klaudia Kulon Joanna Worek 36 2013 Bydgoszcz Monika Soćko Joanna Worek Klaudia Kulon 37 2014 Bydgoszcz Monika Soćko Karina Szczepkowska-Horowska Anna Warakomska 38 2015 Lublin Monika Soćko Karina Szczepkowska-Horowska Ewa Harazińska 39 2016 Lublin Monika Soćko Klaudia Kulon Aleksandra Lach 40 2017 Piotrków Trybunalski Klaudia Kulon Karina Szczepkowska-Horowska Joanna Majdan 41 2018 Szczawno-Zdrój Klaudia Kulon Paulina Cagara Wiktoria Cieślak 42 2019 Katowice Klaudia Kulon Alicja Śliwicka Honorata Kucharska 43 2020 Bydgoszcz Monika Soćko Karina Cyfka Klaudia Kulon 2021 not held 44 2022 Suwałki Klaudia Kulon Monika 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111-509: Is from 550 to 600 mm (22 to 24 in). The sandy soil of the region is not fertile. In the early Middle Ages the Piotrków region was part of the province of Łęczyca of Poland ruled by the Piast dynasty . In c.  1264 it became part of a separate principality. The foundation of the city and its development were connected with its geographical position and the advantageous arrangement of

148-462: The 2005 Polish parliamentary election he was a candidate for the political party Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland . Piotrk%C3%B3w Trybunalski Piotrków Trybunalski ( [ˈpʲɔtrkuf trɨbuˈnalskʲi] ; also known by alternative names ), often simplified to Piotrków , is a city in central Poland with 71,252 inhabitants (2021). It is the capital of Piotrków County and

185-767: The Duchy of Warsaw (1807–15) and was a district seat in the Kalisz Department . After the defeat of Napoleon in 1815, Piotrków became part of Congress Poland , a puppet state of the Russian Empire . When the Warsaw-Vienna railway was built in 1846, there was a slight increase in the economic and industrial development of Piotrków. In January 1863, the Polish January Uprising broke out. Among local Polish insurgents were many young people and Poles conscripted into

222-883: The Polish Socialist Party ), People's Guard and People's Army ( Polish Workers' Party ), Peasants' Battalions ( Polish People's Party ), the National Military Organization and the National Armed Forces ( National Party ). In 1944, during the Warsaw Uprising , the Germans deported over 15,000 Varsovians from the Dulag 121 camp in Pruszków , where they were initially imprisoned, to Piotrków. Those Poles were mainly old people, ill people and women with children. After

259-589: The invasion of Poland at the beginning of World War II , Piotrków was the setting for fierce fighting between the Polish 19th Infantry Division and the 16th Panzer Corps of the German Wehrmacht on 5 September 1939. On the next day, German troops committed a massacre of Polish prisoners of war, including 19 officers, in the present-day neighbourhood of Moryca (see also German atrocities committed against Polish prisoners of war ). The Einsatzgruppe II then entered

296-558: The 1291 assembly that the Prince of Sieradz, Władysław I the Elbow-high , granted Piotrków civic rights , because in documents from the beginning of the 14th century he mentions "civitate nostra Petricouiensi". The first certificate of foundation and the other documents were burnt in a great fire which destroyed the city around 1400. The privileges and rights were re-granted by King Władysław II Jagiełło in 1404. The city walls were built during

333-637: The Germans carried out a massacre of 42 Poles from the prison in the Wolborski Forest in the northern part of the city. Among the victims were 14 students aged 17–18, eight reserve officers, and people of various professions, including pharmacists, an architect, railwayman, teacher, farmer and local secretary. 121 Poles from the local prison were deported to the Auschwitz , Gross-Rosen and Dachau concentration camps in June 1940. Many Poles, who were born or lived in

370-763: The Holocaust, In the Mouth of the Wolf details the escape of the author Rose Zar (née Rose Guterman) from the Piotrków Ghetto and hiding in plain sight, by working for the Wehrmacht and the SS. The secret Polish Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" , established by the Polish resistance movement , operated in the city. From the first months of the war, Piotrków was a center for underground resistance . From

407-783: The Nature of Ancient Monuments in the Kingdom of Poland , led by Kazimierz Stronczyński from 1844 to 1855, describes the Great Synagogue of Piotrków as one of Poland's architecturally notable buildings. In 1793, the Kingdom of Prussia annexed the town in the Second Partition of Poland and administered it as part of the Province of South Prussia . During the Napoleonic Wars , Piotrków became part of

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444-522: The Piotrków Voivodeship was dissolved and Piotrków became the capital of Piotrków County within the Łódź Voivodeship. Piotrków, thanks to its location, is known as the second largest "logistic center" after Warsaw . There is a high concentration of warehouses and distribution centers around the city. The biggest distribution centers are: In Piotrków are also located: and many small and medium textile processing factories. Piotrków lies almost in

481-888: The Poland in international matches and took part in more than sixty international tournaments. In 1967 he shared the seventh place (together with Jan Hein Donner ) in very strongly Capablanca Memorial in Havana . In 1972 Bednarski won two international tournaments in Lublin and Hradec Králové . Three times he shared second place in the "Rilton Cup" tournament in Stockholm ( 1976-1977, 1978-1979, 1979-1980). Jacek Bednarski played for Poland in Chess Olympiads : Jacek Bednarski played for Poland in European Team Chess Championship : For

518-689: The Polish Sejm (during the latter Polish kings of the Jagiellon dynasty were elected there). In Piotrków, two Grand Masters of the Teutonic Order pledged allegiance to Polish King Casimir IV Jagiellon in 1469 and 1470. It was in the city of Piotrków that the Polish Parliament was given its final structure with the division into an Upper House and Lower Chamber in 1493. King John I Albert published his "Piotrków privilege" on 26 May 1493, which expanded

555-549: The Russian army, who were stationed in the city. The Russians established a prison for captured insurgents in Piotrków. Thousands of Poles passed through the prison, were subjected to flagellation and tortures, and then either deported to the Warsaw Citadel or to Siberia , or executed in Piotrków. Two insurgents, wanting to escape from torture, committed suicide by jumping out of the prison windows. As punishment for supporting

592-622: The White , where there is a mention of the duke's tribunal held "in Petrecoue". Medieval Piotrków was a trading place on the trade routes from Pomerania to Russia and Hungary , and later from Masovia to Silesia . During the 13th century, apart from the tribunals, Polish provincial princes made Piotrków the seat of some assemblies of the Sieradz knights, which according to historical sources were held in 1233, in 1241, and in 1291. It might have been during

629-784: The age of eleven. He met with a professional chess training while studying Physics at the Moscow State University . After returning to the Poland Bednarski quickly became one of the leading Polish chess players and graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy in Jagiellonian University . From 1960 to 1979 he played fifteen times in the Polish Chess Championship's finals, and winning four medals: gold (1963), silver (1964) and two bronze (1972, 1975). Bednarski represented

666-768: The best developed industry of all of Congress Poland until 1914. Many Poles demonstrated and went on strike during the 1905 Russian Revolution . During World War I , Piotrków was occupied by Austria-Hungary . From 1915 to 1916, it was a center for Polish patriotic activity. The city was a seat of the Military Department of the National Committee, and a headquarters for the Polish Legions , which were voluntary troops organized by Józef Piłsudski , Władysław Sikorski and others to fight against Russia. Piotrków became part of restored independent Poland in 1918, following

703-503: The boundary of the city area—the Wierzejka, which in the western part of the city forms a reservoir, and the Śrutowy Dołek to the south of Piotrków. The city is 200 m (656.17  ft ) above sea level . The average temperature during the year is about 8 °C (46 °F), the coldest month is January (ranging from −20 to 2.5 °C (−4.0 to 36.5 °F)), the warmest is July (with 18 °C (64 °F) on average). Yearly rainfall

740-659: The catchment area of the Vistula River . The watershed of Poland's two main rivers, the Vistula and the Oder (Odra) , runs along the meridional line three km west of Piotrków. Two small rivers, the Strawa and the Strawka flow through the city, and it is between their valleys that the first settlement of Piotrków was founded in the early Middle Ages . Recently two more rivers have been included within

777-488: The center of Poland . It has a train station on the PKP rail line 1 from Warsaw to Częstochowa . Direct trains go among others to Kraków , Zakopane , Katowice , Bielsko-Biała , Wrocław , Łódź , Poznań , Szczecin , Świnoujście , Gdynia , Olsztyn and Białystok . A highway , an expressway and three national roads cross Piotrków: There is a small airfield for light passenger aircraft in Piotrków. The nearest airport

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814-512: The city declined in the 17th and 18th centuries, due to fires, epidemics, wars against Sweden , and finally the Partitions of Poland . One of two main routes connecting Warsaw and Dresden ran through the city in the 18th century and Kings Augustus II the Strong and Augustus III of Poland often traveled that route. The first official inventory of important buildings in Poland, A General View of

851-627: The city is approximately 80,000 and its area is nearly 68 square kilometres (26 sq mi). The landscape of the Piotrków region and its geological structure was formed during the glaciation of 180,000–128,000 years ago. There are hardly any forests on the Piotrków Plains. Two rivers cross the region, the Wolbórka and the Luciąża , which with their tributaries flow into the Pilica River and belong to

888-805: The city to commit various crimes against the population . The town was occupied by Nazi Germany for the following six years. In autumn of 1939, the Germans carried out mass arrests of dozens of Poles, including teachers, local activists, judges, parliamentarians, editors and bank employees, however some were later released. 47 Poles arrested in Tomaszów Mazowiecki , including Tomaszów's mayor, were also imprisoned in Piotrków. Further mass arrests of hundreds of Poles were carried out in January, March, June and August 1940. Among Poles arrested in March were 12 teachers and students of secret Polish schools . On 29 June 1940

925-634: The city, were murdered by the Russians in the large Katyń massacre in April–May 1940. As early as October 1939 Piotrków became the site of the first Jewish ghetto of World War II set up in occupied Poland . Approximately 25,000 people from Piotrków and the nearby towns and villages were imprisoned there. During the Holocaust 22,000 were sent to the Treblinka extermination camp , while 3,000 were imprisoned in other Nazi concentration camps . A personal account of

962-564: The defeat of the Central Powers in the war. In the interwar period , Piotrków was the capital of Piotrków County in the Łódź Voivodeship , and lost its previous importance. In 1922, the old monastery was restored to the Bernardines. In 1938 the town had 51,000 inhabitants, including 25,000 Jews and 1,500 Germans. The town had a large Jewish settlement and until the Holocaust a thriving Hebrew printing and publishing industry. During

999-655: The fall of the uprising, the headquarters of the Polish Red Cross was temporarily located in the local Royal Castle from October 1944 to January 1945. On 18 January 1945 the Soviet Red Army entered the city, dislodging the German troops. The city was restored to Poland, although with a Soviet-installed communist regime, which stayed in power until the Fall of Communism in the 1980s. Anti-communist partisans continued to fight in

1036-632: The name Peter ( Piotr ), in a diminutive form ( Piotrek , or "Pete"). Trybunalski indicates that tribunal sessions (including the Crown Tribunal ) were held in the town. The town has been known in Yiddish as פּעטריקעװ or Petrikev , in German as Petrikau , and in Russian as Петроков or Petrokov . Piotrków Trybunalski is situated in the middle-west part (Piotrków Plains) of the Łódź Uplands. The population of

1073-432: The privileges of the szlachta (nobility) at the expense of the bourgeoisie and the peasantry. Piotrków became part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1569. When the seat of the Parliament was moved to Warsaw , the town became the seat of the highest court of Poland, the Crown Tribunal , and trials were held there from 1578 to 1793; the highest Lithuanian court was held in Grodno . Piotrków's Jewish population

1110-421: The reign of King Casimir III the Great , and after the great fire, they were rebuilt at the beginning of the 15th century. During the reign of Casimir III, many expelled German Jews from the Holy Roman Empire migrated to the town, which grew to have one of the largest Jewish settlements in the kingdom. Between 1354 and 1567 the city held general assemblies of Polish knights, and general or elective meetings of

1147-406: The roads linking the provinces of Poland in Piast times. At first, a market town and a place of the princes' tribunals (in the 13th and 15th centuries), Piotrków became an administrative center (the capital of the district since 1418), and in later centuries it also became an important political center in Poland. The first record of Piotrków is in a document issued in 1217 by Polish monarch Leszek I

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1184-412: The second-largest city in the Łódź Voivodeship . Founded in the late Middle Ages , Piotrków was once a royal city and holds an important place in Polish history; the first parliament sitting was held here in the 15th century. It then became the seat of a Crown Tribunal , the highest court of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth . The city also hosted one of Poland's oldest Jewish communities , which

1221-408: The spring of 1940, it was the seat of the district headquarters of the Armia Krajowa , or Home Army. In the summer of 1944, the 25th Infantry Regiment of the Home Army was formed in the district; it was the largest military unit of the Łódź Voivodeship, and fought against the Germans until November 1944. In the city and district, there were also other partisan groups: the Military Troops (connected with

1258-439: The uprising, the Russians closed down the Bernardine monastery in 1864, and the last Bernardine monks were expelled in 1867. In 1867 the Russian authorities formed the Piotrków Governorate , which included Łódź , Częstochowa , and the coal fields of Dąbrowa Górnicza and Sosnowiec . According to the Russian census of 1897 , out of the total population of 30,800, Jews constituted 9,500 (around 31% percent). The province had

1295-435: The vicinity in the following years. From 1949 to 1970, Piotrków was transformed into an industrial center. Piotrków remained a district capital in the Łódź Voivodeship , until 1975. Then, following the changes in the administrative division of the country, the city became the capital of the new Piotrków Voivodeship , thus regaining the status of an important administrative, educational and cultural center of Poland. In 1999,

1332-410: Was entirely destroyed by the Holocaust . The old town in Piotrków features many historical and architectural monuments, including tenements , churches, synagogues and the medieval Royal Castle . According to tradition, but not confirmed by historical sources, Piotrków was founded by Piotr Włostowic, a powerful 12th century magnate from Silesia . The name of the city comes from the Polish version of

1369-410: Was expelled in 1578 and only allowed back a century later. The town became a post station in 1684. Around 1705, German settlers (often Swabians ) arrived in the town's vicinity and founded villages; they largely retained their customs and language until their expulsion in 1945. While the importance of Piotrków in the political life of the country had contributed to its development in the 16th century,

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