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

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

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. After the failure of the January Uprising (1863–1864), 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

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(then

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) 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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