Day 1 of the World Women’s Team Championship saw two rounds played in each pool. Three teams scored back-to-back wins Kazakhstan is the only squad in pool A with 4/4 match points before round 3, while the United States and China are sharing first place with perfect scores in pool B. The pool stage will run until Friday, when four teams per group will move on to the knockout stage. | Photo: Michal Walusza
On 17 May, the Polish National Championships ended in Kruszwica. In the open tournament, played in knockout format, defending champion Radoslaw Wojtaszek won his fifth title. But the women's tournament ended with a big surprise. | Photos: Polish Chess Federation
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Bydgoszcz is a city in norther Poland, a part of the Bydgoszcz–Toruń metropolitan area, which totals over 850,000 inhabitants. The eighth-largest city in Poland, it is located between the Vistula and Oder rivers, which means the city belongs to a water system connected via the Noteć, Warta and Elbe with the Rhine and Rotterdam.
Known as
Little Berlin, Bydgoszcz is an architecturally rich city, with neo-gothic, neo-baroque, neoclassicist, modernist and Art Nouveau styles present. The notable granaries on Mill Island and along the riverside belong to one of the most recognized timber-framed landmarks in Poland.