XI Cracow International Chess
Championships
25.06-02.07.2022

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XI Cracow International Chess Championshipis 2022 finished

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7 July 2022

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XI MIĘDZYNARODOWE MISTRZOSTWA KRAKOWA W SZACHACH 2022 is officially finished. In OPEN A Postdata S.A. triumphed 🏆🥇Tomasz Warakomski 🇵🇱 Chess Academy Gliwice, …

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24 June 2022

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The competition office will be open (next to the cafe the second building – the venue) 25.06 – 9:00 – 15:00 26.06 …

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Kraków[a] (Polish: [ˈkrakuf] (audio speaker iconlisten)), also known in English as Cracow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city dates back to the seventh century.[6] Kraków was the official capital of Poland until 1596[7] and has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Polish academic, economic, cultural and artistic life. Cited as one of Europe's most beautiful cities,[8] its Old Town with Wawel Royal Castle was declared the first UNESCO World Heritage Site in the world.

The city has grown from a Stone Age settlement to Poland’s second-most-important city.
After the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany at the start of World War II, the newly defined Distrikt Krakau (Kraków District) became the capital of Germany’s General Government. The Jewish population of the city was forced into a walled zone known as the Kraków Ghetto, from where they were sent to Nazi extermination camps such as the nearby Auschwitz, and Nazi concentration camps like Płaszów. In 1978, Karol Wojtyła, archbishop of Kraków, was elevated to the papacy as Pope John Paul II—the first non-Italian pope in 455 years.^[11] Also that year, UNESCO approved Kraków’s entire Old Town and historic centre as its first World Heritage Site alongside Quito.^[12]