Hieronim Czarnowski

Career

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 1880, he came to Cracow (then Austro-Hungarian Empire) in the period of Galician autonomy.

Achievements

• 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). He was a co-founder and a president of the Cracovian Chess Club (Krakowski Klub Szachistów) (1893), where he won a championship in 1897.