3/18/2023 – Chess will make its first appearance in the European Games as an accompanying event at the Kraków-Maloposka Games 2023. The European Chess Union regulated a new special competition, the European Pair Blitz Chess Championship 2023, which will take place on 19th of June 2023 in Kraków, Poland. Eight teams (ECU members) are invited according the best combined Pair FIDE Classical rating according to the March 2023 list: Ukraine, Azerbaijan, France, Poland, Romania, Germany, Armenia and the Netherlands.

9/8/2019 – The Polish Team Championship wrapped up this week with eight-time "Extraliga" champions WASKO Hetman Katowice and its star players GM Radoslaw Wojtaszek, GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda, GM David Navara, GM Bartosz, GM Monika Socko and others winning yet another title. WGM KETI TSATSALASHVILI was there. | Photo: David Llada / ekstraliga2019.pzszach.pl

3/12/2019 – The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation has organised chess tournaments for over four decades. LtCol Sławomir Kędzierski reports on the most recent championship from the perspective of the Polish Armed Forces (PAF) team to commerate the 20th anniversary of Poland’s presence in NATO. Pictured: IMCC Chairman Col Tomasz Malinowski who introduced Polish Armed Forces to NATO Chess, holding the trophy of King Canute | Photo: Wojciech Król

8/29/2018 – The VIII IBCA World Team Chess Championship for the blind and visually impaired took place in Sofia, Bulgaria from July 20th to 31st, 2018. The event was played in a novel format and witnessed some really exciting games all the way through. At the conclusion of an intensely fought final round, Russia emerged on top of the field by beating Poland by a razor-thin margin. | Photo: Sagar Shah

7/11/2018 – The chess train continues this year, with the great route Prague-Ostrava-Warsaw-Krakow-Hradec Králové and back to Prague. During the ride, a rapid chess tournament is played. In the afternoon there is enough time to see the cities. Find out about this now-traditional and quickly-becoming-legendary tournament. | Photos: Pavel Matocha

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

6/14/2014 – In preparation for the forthcoming Chess Olympiads, Hungary and Poland organized a training match between their top teams in both men and women. The competition took place in Budapest, Hungary where each team came with a full six players and all their stars, including Richard Rapport, Radoslaw Wojtaszek, and Judit Polgar among others. It was a hard fought competition with exciting chess.

10/3/2013 – The Ukraine vs. Poland student match took place in Lviv, the chess capital of Ukraine. Five Ukrainian teams faced against five Polish ones in a Scheveningen style tournament. Additionally, the event featured a strong blitz tournament at the end. Anna Gasik from the University of Warsaw brings us a lovely pictorial recount of the tournament as well as the result of a colorful match.

5/9/2013 – The European Individual championship is now deep in swing and after four rounds, only one player has managed to keep a perfect score: Alexander Moiseenko (2698) with 4.0/4. To celebrate the opening of the tournament, a sumptuous outdoor show was given with costumes and quality rarely seen in chess. Illustrated report and GM annotations.

5/5/2013 – The European Individual Championship held in Legnica, Poland is the strongest Swiss system tournament in the year, and the numbers say it all: twelve players are rated 2700 or more, 38 of the world’s top 100 players are participating, and so on. Despite only being one round deep, surprises abound such as a draw by IM Mariya Muzychuk with a 2700+ player.  Here are the pictures and games.