Grażyna Szmacińska
Grażyna Szmacińska (born 29 January 1953) is a Polish chess player who six times won the Polish Women's Chess Championship. She received the FIDE title of Woman International Master (WIM) in 1978. Chess career. In 1970 and 1971, Szmacińska twice won the Polish Junior Chess Championships. Since the early 1970s to the late 1980s, she was one of the leading Polish women chess player. From 1975 to 1989, Szmacinska played 15 times in the Polish Women's Chess Championship's finals and won eight medals: six gold (1975, 1976, 1981, 1983, 1986, 1988) and two silver (1977 , 1979). Szmacińska participated in many international tournaments. She won or shared first place in international chess tournaments in Lublin (1976), Piotrków Trybunalski (1978), Bydgoszcz (1977). Szmacińska played for Poland in Women's Chess Olympiads: In 1993, Szmacińska ended his professional career chess but occasionally participated in national tournaments. From 2004 to 2006, she won three medals at the Polish National Police Chess Championships, including gold in 2005.