In the years 1959-1980, Andrzej Filipowicz eighteen times participated in the Polish Chess Championships finals which were most successful in 1971 in Poznań, where he won a bronze medal.

[1] Andrzej Filipowicz was winner of many international chess tournament awards, including shared first place with Bruno Parma in Rubinstein Memorial in Polanica-Zdrój (1964).

In 1993, Andrzej Filipowicz was awarded the title of an Honorary Member of the Polish Chess Federation.

In 2006, as the third Polish chess player in history after Dawid Przepiórka and Mieczysław Najdorf, he was honored with the title of Honorary Member of FIDE.

In 1971 Andrzej Filipowicz obtained the title of doctor of technical sciences at the Warsaw University of Technology.