About Hieronim Czarnowski
Lived 1834 – 1902 (aged 67–68). Hieronim Czarnowski was a Polish and Russian chess player.
Hieronim Ignacy Czarnowski (January 1834 – 28 December 1902) was a Polish chess master and activist.
He lived in Warsaw (then Russian Empire), where he played, among others, with Alexander Petrov and Szymon Winawer. After the failure of the January Uprising (1863–1864), he emigrated to France.
In 1867, he took 8th in Paris (Ignaz von Kolisch won), and won at Café de la Régence in Paris. He won a match against Préti (+3 –0 =1).
In 1880, he came to Kraków (then Austria-Hungary) 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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Who was Hieronim Czarnowski?
Polish chess player
When was Hieronim Czarnowski born?
Hieronim Czarnowski was born in 1834 in Warsaw.
When did Hieronim Czarnowski die?
Hieronim Czarnowski died on 28 December 1902.
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Hieronim Czarnowski was a chess player.
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Hieronim Czarnowski was Polish and Russian.
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