Tournaments, opens and leagues around Warsaw 52

Few weeks in Warsaw pass without a rated game. The Hetman club files rapid evenings, blitz evenings and autumn and spring classical seasons with FIDE, the YMCA on ul. Konopnickiej runs long tournaments named after the seasons, and Saska Kępa has a Sunday rapid series and a blitz series in a club café on ul. Zwycięzców. The Kawka Cup was played in a Praga café garden, Twierdza Mokotów and Caissa hold cups and club championships, and shopping centres such as Promenada and Targówek have hosted their own series.

Bigger dates include the Warsaw open championships in August, the Warsaw Chess Festival with the Najdorf Memorial in June, Superbet Rapid and Blitz Poland, the Independence Day tournament on 11 November and memorials such as the Brustman one in Wawer. The Mazovian association adds team leagues, junior championships and the Warsaw Youth Olympiad, the SGH library hosts a company league, and Otwock, Marki, Serock, Błonie, Pruszków and Grodzisk Mazowiecki keep opens of their own.