Antoni Wojciechowski

Wojciechowski represented Poznań at the Polish Team championships (1st at Królewska Huta (Königshütte) 1929, and 2nd at Katowice 1934).

[1] He played for Poland on the eighth board (+7 –2 =5) in the 3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad at Munich 1936.

[2] He was a poor man with weak health, and in January 1938 a bad attack of pneumonia killed him.

[3] During the interwar period Wojciechowski was one of the strongest Polish chess masters and won games against players like Dawid Przepiórka, Rudolf Spielmann and Miguel Najdorf.

[4][5][6] Wojciechowski is however probably best known for his famous combination in the game Tylkowski_–_Wojciechowski,_Poznań_1931 [de] against Roman Tylkowski at Poznań 1931.