9/1/2022 – Polish grandmaster Monika Socko was the clear winner of the European Women’s Championship which took place at the Don Giovanni Hotel in Prague. Socko scored 8½/11 points to leave a 5-player chasing pack a half point back. Azerbaijani representatives Gunay Mammadzada and Ulviyya Fataliyeva grabbed second and third place, respectively. Nine players gained spots in next year’s Women’s World Cup. | Photos: Official site

8/30/2022 – Monika Socko remains in the sole lead of the European Women’s Championship after scoring a crucial win over Gunay Mammadzada and drawing Ulviyya Fataliyeva (from a clearly superior position). Mammadzada bounced back from her loss against the leader by beating Maria Gevorgyan and stands a half point behind the Polish grandmaster with two rounds to go. | Photos: Official site

8/26/2022 – Back-to-back wins in rounds 5 and 6 allowed Polish GM Monika Socko to grab the sole lead at the European Women’s Championship in Prague. Two players, Gunay Mammadzada and Maria Gevorgyan, stand a half point back, as the participants will get a rest day before Saturday’s seventh round. In round 7, Socko will play white against Gevorgyan, while Mammadzada will face top seed Nana Dzagnidze, also with white, on the second board. | Photo: Official site

1/20/2020 – Escaping the cold Romanian winter, IM IRINA BULMAGA returned home recently from a successful jaunt to the UAE where she shared first with fellow IMs Irine Sukandar and IM Olga Zimina, and GM Monika Socko, each scoring 7 out of 9. It was the tenth such tournament for women in Sharjah. | Photos: Official site: shjwomenchess.com

5/24/2019 – At the Polish national championships in Warsaw, the two Elo favourites only came in second place. The Open Championship was won by Kamil Dragun, who spent several years in the USA as a student at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Iweta Rajlich took the Women's Champion title, finishing a full point clear of Polish women's number one Monika Socko. | Photos: Marek Skrzypczak / mp2019.pzszach.pl

5/16/2019 – The Trading Room of the Warsaw Stock Exchange has received yet again the Polish Chamionships. This year, the events are taking place from the 11th until the 19th of May, with the two top finishers in each group getting spots in the Polish Olympiad team. In the Open, Kamil Dragun and Bartosz Sock are sharing first place on 3½/5, while in the Women's Monicka Socko is the sole leader on 4½/5. | Photo: Marek Skrzypczak

11/4/2018 – The 64-player knockout tournament that will result in a second 2018 Women's World Champion took off on Saturday. The Ugra Chess Academy received yet another strong event and showed the usual high-calibre organisation. The first games of round one left few clear upsets, but did include many results that will very likely produce interesting return matches — games where the clear favourite only got half a point, and close match-ups where one of the players is now in a must-win situation. | Photos: Official site

5/16/2018 – Before the Polish Championship, there was the Polish-Hungarian friendship championship. This nine-round rapid tournament has been held since 2013, and attracts hundreds of players young and old to Katowice, Poland for a fun-filled weekend. WGM KETI TSATSALASHVILI was there and sends this photo report. | Photo: Walusza photography

4/7/2016 – Radoslaw Wojtaszek and Monika Socko were the rating favorites at the Polish Championships in Poznan and they both lived up to their roles. Wojtaszek won the "Lotto Men's Championship" with 6.5/9, half a point ahead of Kacper Piorun. Monika Socko won the "Budimex Women's Championship" with 7.0/9, a full point ahead of her closest rival Jolanta Zawadzka.