Krystyna Hołuj-Radzikowska

Krystyna Radzikowska born Hołuj ( born February 5, 1931 in Lviv, † 29 November 2006) was the most successful Polish chess player of the 1950s and 1960s and chess grandmaster.

Life

As a nine- year-old Krystyna learned the rules of chess, seriously, she ran the game only from the nineteenth year. They went through a lyceum ogólnokształcące and began piano lessons at a music school. She then studied at the Silesian Technical University in Gliwice 1955 and received the title of Master of Engineering. For years, she worked in an office in Gliwice for mining engineering.

In 1950, she appeared in the same place at their first chess club, the AZS Gliwice; In 1958 she joined for two years Gornik Bytom, 1960 then start Katowice, for which she played nearly thirty years.

Chess career

She was nine times Polish Champion: 1951, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1966 and 1969.

At the Chess Olympiad of the women she met five times in Poland:

She won two singles titles: Gold in Emmen in 1957 and bronze in Skopje in 1972.

At the Candidates tournament in Moscow in 1955, which was won by Olga Rubzowa, she won the 15-16 split. Place.

From the FIDE in 1955 she received the title of International Master of women ( WIM) and in 1984 those of an Honorary Grand Master ( HWGM ).

Game

There is a correspondence game, the Krystyna Radzikowska played in the Tournament of IV Correspondence Chess Olympiad ladies and ended in 1996.