Hieronim Ignacy Czarnowski (January 1834 – 28 December 1902) was a Polish

chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to dist ...

master and activist. He lived in Warsaw (then Russian Empire), where he played, among others, with Alexander Petrov and

Szymon Winawer Szymon Abramowicz Winawer (March 6, 1838 – November 29, 1919) was a Polish-Jewish chess player who won the German Chess Championship in 1883. Tournament and match results At the Paris 1867 tournament held at the Café de la Régence, his first ...

. After the failure of the January Uprising (1863–64), he emigrated to France. In 1867, he took 8th in

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( Ignaz von Kolisch won), and won at

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in Paris. He won a match against Préti (+3 –0 =1). In 1880, he came to Cracow (then Austro-Hungarian Empire) in the period of Galician autonomy. He was a co-founder and a president of the Cracovian Chess Club (''Krakowski Klub Szachistów'') (1893), where he won a championship in 1897.

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