Elżbieta Kowalska

Elżbieta Kowalska
Elżbieta Kowalska
	Kowalska in 2013
Country	Poland
Born	1 June 1944 (age 80); Warsaw, Poland
Title	Woman FIDE Master (1989)
Peak rating	2185 (January 1990)

Elżbieta Kowalska (born 1 June 1944), née Kłaput, later Lipska, is a Polish chess player who won the Polish Women's Chess Championship in 1967.

Chess career

In the 1960s and 1970s Elżbieta Kowalska was one of the leading Polish women chess players. From 1964 to 1983 she played 15 times in the Polish Women's Chess Championship finals. Her greatest success was achieved in 1967 in Kielce, when she won the tournament.^[1] She also won 11 gold medals (1966, 1968, 1970 , 1973, 1974 , 1975, 1976 , 1977 , 1979, 1981 , 1983) in the Polish Team Chess Championships.^[2] In 1979 she won the Swiss-system tournament in Warsaw (before Agnieszka Brustman). In the 1994 international tournament in Wisła Elżbieta Kowalska beat WGM Marta Litinskaya.

References

^ Medalistki Mistrzostw Polski Kobiet w Szachach Archived May 14, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
^ OlimpBase :: Polish Team Chess Championship :: Elżbieta Kowalska-Lipska

External links

Elzbieta Kowalska rating card at FIDE
Elzbieta Kowalska player profile and games at Chessgames.com
Elzbieta Kowalska chess games at 365Chess.com

[1] Medalistki Mistrzostw Polski Kobiet w Szachach Archived May 14, 2015, at the Wayback Machine

[2] OlimpBase :: Polish Team Chess Championship :: Elżbieta Kowalska-Lipska

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