- Henryk Pogorieły
Henryk Pogorieły (1908, Warsaw – 1943, Warsaw) was a Polish chess master.
He took 4th in the Warsaw Championship in 1928. Pogorieły, along with other members of the Warsaw team (
Abram Blass ,Rafał Feinmesser , Paulin Frydman,Stanisław Kohn ,Leon Kremer ,Karol Piltz ) won gold medal in the 1st Polish Team Championship at Królewska Huta 1929. [ [http://www.astercity.net/~vistula/jubileuszszz.htm Jubileusz 80 -lecia Śląskiego Związku Szachowego ] ]Pogorieły took 3rd at Warsaw 1936, and played for Poland at seventh board (+10 –3 =7) in
3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad at Munich 1936. He won team silver medal and bronze individual medal there. [ [http://www.olimpbase.org/1936/1936id01.html OlimpBase :: Chess Olympiad, Munich 1936, individual results ] ] In 1939, he tied for 6-7th in Warsaw, and tied for 5-8th in Margate (B tournament). In February–April 1942, he participated in a chess tournament in theWarsaw Ghetto , and won scoring 13/14. In Spring 1943, he was murdered in thePawiak prison. [Tadeusz Wolsza, "Arcymistrzowie, mistrzowie, amatorzy... Słownik biograficzny szachistów polskich", tom I, Wydawnictwo DiG, Warszawa 1995]References
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