Editing List of Polish people (section)

== Chess ==
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* [[Izak Aloni]] (1905–1985), Polish-Israeli chess master
* [[Izaak Appel]] (1905–missing), chess master
* [[Arnold Aurbach]] (1888–1952), Polish-French chess master
* [[Zdzisław Belsitzmann]] (1890–1920), chess master
* [[Abram Blass]] (1895–1971), Polish-Israeli chess master
* [[Agnieszka Brustman]] (b. 1962), woman chess grandmaster
* [[Oscar Chajes]] (1873–1928)
* [[Joseph Cukierman]] (1900–1941), Polish-born French grandmaster
* [[Hieronim Czarnowski]] (1834–1902), Polish-French chess master
* [[Moshe Czerniak]] (1910–1984), Polish-Israeli International Master
* [[Arthur Dake]] (1910–2000), American born to Polish parents, grandmaster
* [[Dawid Daniuszewski]] (1885–1944), chess master
* [[Józef Dominik]] (1894–1920), chess master
* [[Jan-Krzysztof Duda]] (b. 1998), grandmaster
* [[Arthur Dunkelblum]] (1906–1979), Polish-Belgian International Master
* [[Boruch Israel Dyner]] (1903–1979), Polish-Belgian-Israeli chess master
* [[Hanna Ereńska]] (b. 1946), woman grandmaster
* [[Samuel Factor (chess player)|Samuel Factor]] (1883–1949), Polish-American chess master
* [[Alexander Flamberg]] (1880–1926), chess master
* [[Henryk Friedman]] (1903–1942), chess master
* [[Achilles Frydman]] (1905–1940), chess player, died in a Nazi concentration camp
* [[Paulino Frydman]] (1905–1982), Polish-Argentinean chess master
* [[Regina Gerlecka]] (1913–1983), chess player
* [[Edward Gerstenfeld]] (1915–1943), chess master, killed in the Holocaust
* [[Yehuda Gruenfeld]] (born 1956), grandmaster
* [[Izaak Grynfeld]] (1912-?), later known as Ignacy Branicki, Polish-born Israeli chess master
* [[Róża Herman]] (1902–1995), Woman International Master
* [[Krystyna Hołuj-Radzikowska]], Woman International Master
* [[Chaim Janowski]] (1868–1935), chess master
* [[Dawid Janowski]] (1868–1927), chess player
* [[Max Judd]] (1851–1906), American chess player
* [[Bernhard Kagan]] (1866–1932), German chess player
* [[Stanisław Kohn]] (1895–1940), chess master
* [[George Koltanowski]] (1903–2000), American International Master born in Belgium to a Polish-Jewish family, set the world's blindfold record  by playing 34 chess games simultaneously while blindfolded, and set a record for playing 56 consecutive blindfold games at ten seconds per move (winning 50, drawing 6). 
* [[Henrijeta Konarkowska-Sokolov]] (b. 1938), Polish-Serbian chess master
* [[Michał Krasenkow]] (b. 1963), Russian-born grandmaster, moved to Poland in 1992
* [[Leon Kremer]] (1901–1941), chess master
* [[Adam Kuligowski]] (b. 1955), grandmaster 
* [[Abraham Kupchik]] (1892–1970), American chess master
* [[Salo Landau]] (1903–1943), Dutch chess player, died in a Nazi concentration camp
* [[Edward Lasker]] (1885–1981), German-American chess International Master 
* [[Paul Saladin Leonhardt]] (1877–1934), German chess master
* [[Grigory Levenfish]] (1889–1961), Soviet grandmaster
* [[Moishe Lowtzky]] (1881–1940), Ukrainian–Polish chess master, died in a Nazi concentration camp
* [[Bartłomiej Macieja]] (b. 1977), grandmaster
* [[Kazimierz Makarczyk]] (1901–1972), chess master
* [[Kalikst Morawski]] (1859–1939), chess master
* [[Stasch Mlotkowski]] (1881–1943), American chess master, born in the US to Polish parents
* [[Piotr Murdzia]] (b. 1975), chess International Master
* [[Miguel Najdorf]] (1910–1997), Polish-Argentine grandmaster
* [[Menachem Oren]] (1903–1962), Polish-born Israeli chess player 
* [[Julius Perlis]] (1880–1913), Austrian chess player
* [[Karol Piltz]] (1903–1939), chess master 
* [[Oskar Piotrowski (chess player)|Oskar Piotrowski]], chess master
* [[Kazimierz Plater]] (1915–2004), International Master
* [[Henryk Pogorieły]] (1908–1943), chess master, murdered in the Holocaust
* [[Ignatz von Popiel]] (1863–1941), Polish-Ukrainian chess player
* [[Artur Popławski]] (1860–1918), chess master
* [[Dawid Przepiórka]] (1880–1940), won the first Polish championship, murdered in the Holocaust
* [[Iweta Rajlich]] (b. 1981), International Master and Woman Grandmaster
* [[Teodor Regedziński]] (1894–1954), chess master
* [[Samuel Reshevsky]] (1911–1992), Polish-American grandmaster
* [[Samuel Rosenthal]] (1837–1902), Polish-born French chess player
* [[Gersz Rotlewi]] (1889–1920), chess master
* [[Akiba Rubinstein]] (1880–1961), Polish-Belgian International Grandmaster
* [[Gersz Salwe]] (1862–1920), chess master
* [[Włodzimierz Schmidt]] (b. 1943), grandmaster
* [[Leon Schwartzmann]] (1887–1942), Polish–French chess master, murdered in Auschwitz concentration camp
* [[Stanislaus Sittenfeld]] (1865–1902),  Polish–French chess master
* [[Monika Soćko]] (b. 1978), grandmaster and Woman Grandmaster 
* [[Franciszek Sulik]] (1908–1997), Polish-Australian chess master
* [[Bogdan Śliwa]] (1922–2003), International Master
* [[Dariusz Świercz]] (b. 1994), Polish-American grandmaster
* [[Gedali Szapiro]] (Grzegorz Szapiro; 1929–1972), chess master
* [[Savielly Tartakower]] (1887–1956), Polish-French International Grandmaster 
* [[Jean Taubenhaus]] (1850–1919), Polish–born French chess master
* [[Oscar Tenner]] (1880–1948), Poland-born German–American chess master
* [[Vitaly Tseshkovsky]] (1944–2011), Russian grandmaster
* [[Alexander Wagner]] (1868–1942)
* [[Szymon Winawer]] (1838–1919), chess player
* [[Radosław Wojtaszek]] (b. 1987), grandmaster
* [[Aleksander Wojtkiewicz]] (1963–2006), Polish-American grandmaster
* [[Daniel Yanofsky]] (1925–2000), Canadian grandmaster
* [[Józef Żabiński]] (1860–1928), chess master
* [[Johannes Zukertort]] (1842–1888), Polish-born British-German chess master
* [[Adolf Zytogorski]] ({{circa|1811/1812}}–1882), Polish-British chess master
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File:Duda und Giri 2018 Dortmund (cropped).jpg|[[Jan-Krzysztof Duda|Duda]]
File:Miguel Najdorf 1973.jpg|[[Miguel Najdorf|Najdorf]]
File:Akiba-RubinsteinC.jpg|[[Akiba Rubinstein|Rubinstein]]
File:Monika Soćko 2013.jpg|[[Monika Soćko|Soćko]]
File:Dariusz Świercz POLch 2014.jpg|[[Dariusz Świercz|Świerszcz]]
File:Ksawery Tartakower.jpg|[[Savielly Tartakower|Tartakower]]
File:Radoslaw Wojtaszek POLch 2014.jpg|[[Radosław Wojtaszek|Wojtaszek]]
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