Aleksander Czerwoński (born 27 July 1965) is a Polish
chess
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International Master
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(1996).
Chess career
Czerwoński is a two-time bronze medalist of the Polish Junior Chess Championships, in 1985 (
Wrocław
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, in U20 age group) and 1988 (
Kielce
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, in U23 age group). In the years 1986–2000, he played in the
Polish Chess Championship
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finals seven times. He achieved his best result in 1994 in
Gdańsk
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, taking 9th place. He won Polish Team Chess Championships medals seven times (gold six times, in 1991–1998, and bronze in 1999), all of them - representing the chess club ''Stilon Gorzów Wielkopolski''.
In 1987, Czerwoński took 3rd place in the chess
Swiss-system tournament
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in
Warsaw
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, in 1989 he triumphed in
Słupsk
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, and in 1990 he took 2nd place in ''Open'' in
Bielsko-Biała
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. In 1997, he won (together with
Andrei Maksimenko,
Marek Oliwa and
Mladen Muše
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Chess career
In 1982, Muše won the bronze medal in the Federal Republic of Germany Junior Chess Championship in ...
) in the
Emanuel Lasker
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memorial in
Barlinek
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, in 1998 he shared 2nd place in the Warsaw Chess Championship. In 2000, he won a tournament in
Cuxhaven
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. In 2003, he took 3rd place in the ''Open'' tournament in
Kożuchów
Kożuchów (; ) is a town in Lubusz Voivodeship, Poland.
History
The town was founded in the 12th century, when it was part of the Kingdom of Poland. It was granted town rights in 1273 in the process of Ostsiedlung. As a result of the fragmenta ...
, in 2004, he shared 1st - 3rd place in
Rewal
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in ''Konik Morski Rewal'' chess tournament and won in
Gorzów Wielkopolski
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. In 2006, he took 3rd place in the Emanuel Lasker memorial in Barlinek and won again in Gorzów. In 2008, he won the '11.Neujahrs-Open' tournament in
Guben
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.
From 1999 to 2005 Czerwoński was a co-worker and then editor-in-chief of the monthly chess magazine ''Przegląd Szachowy''. He also achieved success as a chess coach. Among other things, he led the junior team of ''KSz Stilon'' in 2006, 2008 and in 2009 when team won the Polish Team Junior Championship, and in 2007 when team took 2nd place.
Czerwoński achieved the highest
rating
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in his career so far on 1 July 1999, with a score of 2426 points, he was then 23rd among Polish chess players.
FIDE rating history :: Czerwonski, Aleksander
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References
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Aleksander Czerwoński - Szachy w Polsce
1965 births
Living people
Chess players from Warsaw
Chess International Masters
Polish chess players
Polish chess writers
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