Andrzej Filipowicz

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Filipowicz 2010 Dortmund.jpg
Andrzej Filipowicz, Dortmund 2010
Association PolandPoland Poland
Born May 13, 1938
Warsaw , Poland
title International champion (1975)
Current  Elo rating 2330 (October 2019)
Best Elo rating 2430 (May 1974)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Andrzej Filipowicz (born May 13, 1938 in Warsaw ) is a Polish chess player , referee and journalist.

Life

Filipowicz received his PhD in 1971 from Warsaw University of Technology . He was the editor of various chess magazines. Since the mid-1970s, he has held positions with the Polish Chess Federation and FIDE . In 1975 he received the title of International Master (IM) from the World Chess Federation . In 1984 FIDE appointed him International Referee . In 2006 Filipowicz became an honorary member of FIDE.

chess

Tournaments

From 1959 to 1980 Filipovicz played eighteen times in the finals of the Polish Championships . He finished third in 1971 and fourth in 1960, 1966, 1967, 1970 and 1979.

In 1964 he won the 2nd Rubinstein Memorial Tournament in Polanica-Zdrój ahead of Bruno Parma , Vlastimil Hort , Lubomir Kavalek and Włodzimierz Schmidt . In 1966 at the fourth Rubenstein memorial tournament in Polanica-Zdrój, which Smyslow won, he also played. Other tournaments followed in Poland, Gausdal, Esbjerg, Bagneux and Rome.

Team championships

From the 1960 Chess Olympiad in Leipzig up to and including the 1972 Chess Olympiad in Skopje , he took part in six Chess Olympiads . At the 1978 Chess Olympiad in Buenos Aires , he was nominated as the second reserve player, but was not used. He also played in the 1973 European Team Championship in Bath . Filipowicz played club chess until 1959 for Polonia Warsaw, then for the team of WKSz Legion Warsaw, with which he also took part in the European Club Cup in 1986 and 1988 . From 1954 to 1991 he took part in 27 Polish team championships and was eleven times ( 1959 , 1960 , 1961 , 1963 , 1964 , 1967 , 1969 , 1972 , 1980 , 1986 and 1989 ) Polish team champion.

Last tournaments

He played two of his last tournaments in Dortmund in 1990 and 1991 . In 1990 Filipowicz was fourth ahead of Alexei Suetin in the Open of the Dortmund Chess Days , which Sergey Janowsky won. He also played in the 1991 Dortmund Open, which Yuri Balaschow saw as the winner.

In 1993 Filipowicz ended his chess career, he is therefore listed as inactive at FIDE.

International arbitrator

Start of the first round in Dortmund 2009: in front Leko - Kramnik, behind Leko Filipowicz

Since the mid-1990s, he has acted as a referee at many chess events, such as the main referee at the Dortmund Chess Days and at the 2014 World Chess Championship in Sochi .

  • Sparkassen Chess Meeting 2014
  • Women's World Rapid Championship 2014
  • Dortmunder Sparkassen Chess Meeting 2013
  • FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship 2013
  • 8th Valley Memorial. Blitz 2013
  • European Youth Chess Championship 2012

As a referee, he had considerable success, including at the world championship between Garry Kasparov and Vladimir Kramnik in 2000 in London , world championship in blitz chess in 2006, junior world championship in 2010, world championships in rapid chess in 2012, memorial tournaments for Mikhail Tal (2012, 2013) and repeated Elite tournaments of the Dortmund Chess Days.

Works

  • Dzieje Polskiego Związku Szachowego do 1956 roku . Wydawnictwo "OK", Warsaw 2007, ISBN 83-903149-8-3

literature

Web links

Commons : Andrzej Filipowicz  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 92
  2. ^ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 129
  3. ↑ FIDE Honorary Members on FIDE (English)
  4. ↑ Rubinstein mem Polanica Zdroj 1964 on 365Chess (English)
  5. ↑ Andrzej Filipowicz's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  6. ↑ Andrzej Filipowicz's results at European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  7. ↑ Andrzej Filipowicz's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
  8. ↑ Andrzej Filipowicz's results at Polish team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  9. ↑ Dortmund 1990 on 365Chess (English)
  10. ↑ Chess Arbiter Records - Filipowicz, Andrzej (POL) on FIDE (English)
personal data
SURNAME Filipowicz, Andrzej
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish chess player, chess official and chess journalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw