Pogorieły, along with other members of the Warsaw team (Abram Blass, Rafał Feinmesser, Paulin Frydman, Stanisław Kohn, Leon Kremer, Karol Piltz) won a gold medal in the 1st Polish Team Championship at Królewska Huta 1929.
[1] Pogorieły took 3rd at Warsaw 1936, and played for Poland at seventh board (+10 –3 =7) in 3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad at Munich 1936.
In February–April 1942, he participated in a chess tournament in the Warsaw Ghetto, and won scoring 13/14.
In Spring 1943, he was murdered in Pawiak prison.
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