Krystyna Radzikowska

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Krystyna Radzikowska
Association PolandPoland Poland
Born February 5, 1931
Lwów
Died November 29, 2006
title International Women's Champion (1955)
Honorary Women's Grandmaster (1984)
Best Elo rating 2160 (July 1972 to January 1975)

Krystyna Radzikowska née Hołuj (born February 5, 1931 in Lwów ; † November 29, 2006 ) was the most successful Polish chess player of the 1950s and 1960s and an honorary grandmaster for women .

Life

As a nine-year-old Krystyna learned the rules of chess, and began playing the game seriously only from the age of nineteen. She went through a lyceum ogólnokształcące and received piano lessons in a music school. She then studied at the Silesian Technical University in Gliwice and in 1955 received a master's degree in engineering. For years she worked in an office for mining engineering in Gliwice.

In 1950 she joined her first chess club in the same place, the AZS Gliwice , in 1958 she joined Górnik Bytom for two years , then in 1960 start Katowice , for which she played for nearly thirty years. From the early 1950s to the late 1970s, she played regularly in the Polish team championship on the women's board of her club.

Chess career

She was Polish Women's Champion nine times : 1951, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1966 and 1969.

In the women's chess Olympiads , Poland competed in Emmen in 1957 , in Split in 1963 , in Oberhausen in 1966 , in Lublin in 1969 and in Skopje in 1972 and achieved the best individual result on the first board in 1957.

At the women's candidate tournament in Moscow in 1955 , which was won by Olga Rubzowa , she finished 15th / 16th. Space.

In 1955 she received the title of International Women's Champion (WIM) from FIDE and in 1984 the title of Honorary Grand Master of Women (HWGM). Radzikowska was also in correspondence chess actively and in 1994 was appointed to the International Correspondence Chess champion of women (Lady International Correspondence Chess Master).

Lot

Christine Rosenfield - Krystyna Radzikowska
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. f3 0–0 6. Be3 Nc6 7. Nge2 a6 8. Qd2 Rb8 9. h4 h5 10. 0–0–0 b5 11. cxb5 axb5 12. d5 Ne5 13. Nd4 b4 14. Ncb5 Bd7 15. Qxb4 c5 16. dxc6 Nxc6 17. Nxc6 Bxc6 18. Kb1 Ne8 19. a4 Nc7 20. g3 Qd7 21. Bh3 De8 22. Bd4 Bxd4 23. Qxd4 Bxb5 24. axb5 Nxb5 25. De3 Rb7 26.Rd3 Da8 27.Rc1 Da4 28.Bc8 Ra7 29.Rc6 e5 30. Qb6 Nd4 31.Rxd4 exd4 32.Kc1 Da1 + 33.Kc2 d3 + 34.Kxd3 Qd1 + 0: 1

It is a long-distance game that Krystyna Radzikowska played in the tournament of the IV Women's Correspondence Chess Olympiad and finished in 1996.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Krystyna Radzikowska's results at Polish team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  2. ^ Litmanowicz, Władysław; Giżycki, Jerzy: Szachy od A do Z , Wydawnictwo Sport i Turystyka, Warsaw 1986, 1987, ISBN 83-217-2481-7 (1st A – M), ISBN 83-217-2745-X (2nd N – Z )
  3. ↑ Krystyna Radzikowska's results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  4. ↑ World Chess Championship (women)
  5. ^ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 78
personal data
SURNAME Radzikowska, Krystyna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hołuj-Radzikowska, Krystyna; Hołuj, Krystyna (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish chess grandmaster
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Lwów
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 2006