I am an European, so that the blood of four nations (Polish, Ukrainian, Hungarian, and Jewish) runs in my veins. My nickname is Mi. I was born in Belz (Galicia, the former Austro-Hungarian Monarchy) in 1948. Currently I live in Upper Silesia. I have a PhD in Environmental Science.

This user participates in WikiProject Chess.

Among others, I am interested in history of chess, especially the period 1850-1950.

Manuel Aaron | Istvan Abonyi | Leonardas Abramavičius | Evgeny Agrest | Carl Ahues | Aaron Alexandre | Alexei Alekhine | Grace Alekhine | Johann Baptist Allgaier | Izak Aloni | Yoel Aloni | Erik Andersen | Frank Anderson (chess player) | Izaak Appel | Fricis Apšenieks | Lev Aptekar | José Joaquin Araiza | Romanas Arlauskas | Andreas Ascharin | Jacob Ascher | Lajos Asztalos | Arnold Aurbach | Herbert Avram | Boris Avrukh | Boris Baczynsky | Paul Baender | Mary Bain | David Graham Baird | Zoltan von Balla | János Balogh (chess player) | Julio Balparda | Amikam Balshan | Zsigmond Barász | Abraham Baratz | Robert Henry Barnes | Albert Becker | Zdzisław Belsitzmann | Clare Benedict | Levi Benima | Clarice Benini | Francisco Benkö | Bela Berger | Johann Nepomuk Berger (chess player) | Victor Berger | Nils Bergkvist | Teodors Bergs | Karl Berndtsson | Jacob Bernstein | Sidney Norman Bernstein | Yaacov Bernstein | Katarina Beskow | Louis Betbeder | Karlis Betinš | Siegmund Beutum | Carlos Bielicki | Martin Bier | A.T. Bigelow | Horace Bigelow | Moritz Billecard | Nathan Birnboim | Peter Biyiasas | Joseph Henry Blake (chess player) | Abram Blass | Dirk Bleijkmans | Yaacov Bleiman | Benjamin Blumenfeld | Max Blümich | Boris Blumin | Jacobo Bolbochan | Arturo Bonet | Johannes van den Bosch (chess player) | César Boutteville | Julius Brach | Mirko Bröder ‎ | Miklos Brody | Vladimir Bron | Agnieszka Brustman | Gerardo Budowski | Wincenty Budzyński | Constant Ferdinand Burille | Daniel Cámpora | Rodolfo Tan Cardoso | Carl Carls | Horatio Caro | Berna Carrasco | Vincenzo Castaldi | Mariano Castillo | Giovanni Cenni | Alfonso Ceron | Jacobus de Cessolis | Ferenc Chalupetzky | Edward Chamier | Roberto Cifuentes | Victor Ciocâltea | Hermann Clemenz | Albert Clerc | Erich Cohn | Wilhelm Cohn | Eugene Ernest Colman | Adrian Garcia Conde | Nicolaas Cortlever | Robert Crépeaux | Oswaldo Cruz Filho | Walter Cruz | Miguel Cuellar | Josef Cukierman | Hieronim Czarnowski | Moshe Czerniak | Arthur Dake | Gösta Danielsson | A. Polak Daniels | Dawid Daniuszewski | Jacques Davidson | Boris De Greiff | Frederic Deacon | Paul Devos | Emil Josef Diemer | Julius Dimer | Josef Dobias | Yosef Dobkin | Józef Dominik | Zadok Domnitz | Leonids Dreibergs | Kurt Dreyer | Tihomil Drezga | Andreas Dückstein | Andreas Duhm | Dietrich Duhm | Hans Duhm | Arthur Dunkelblum | Fyodor Duz-Khotimirsky | Viacheslav Dydyshko | Boruch Israel Dyner | Marsel Efroimski | Rakhil Eidelson | Louis Eisenberg | Bengt Ekenberg | Moissei Eljaschoff | Lucijs Endzelins | Marcel Engelmann | Ludwig Engels | David Enoch | Stefan Erdélyi | Hanna Ereńska | Wilhelm Ernst (chess player) | John Angus Erskine | Alexander Evensohn | Győző Exner | Samuel Factor | Louisa Matilda Fagan | Hugo Fähndrich | Hans Fahrni | Sammi Fajarowicz | Raphael Falk | Miss Fatima | István Fazekas | Movsas Feigins | Rafał Feinmesser | A. Feinstein (chess player) | Rubén Felgaer | Virgilio Fenoglio | Julius Finn | Alexander Flamberg | Alfred Flatow (chess player) | Ernst Flechsig | Bernhard Fleissig | Max Fleissig | Rodrigo Flores | Alberto Foguelman | Jan Foltys | George Salto Fontein | Arnold van Foreest | Dirk van Foreest | Leó Forgács | Győző Forintos | Albert Fox | Maurice Fox | Selim Franklin (chess player) | Sergey von Freymann | Joel Fridlizius | Gunnar Friedemann | David Friedgood | Henryk Friedman | Alexander Fritz | Martin Severin From | Achilles Frydman | Paulino Frydman | Andrija Fuderer | Géza Füster | Carlos Garcia Palermo | Raimundo Garcia | Viktor Gavrikov | Uzi Geller | Ernő Gereben | Regina Gerlecka | Eugenio German | Theodor Germann | José Gerschman | Edward Gerstenfeld | Georgy Geshev | Amédée Gibaud | Johannes Giersing | H.W.B. Gifford | Mary Gilchrist | Karl Gilg | Matteo Gladig | Eduard Glass | Solomon Globus | Carl Goering | Alphonse Goetz | Samuel Gold | Celso Golmayo Torriente | Celso Golmayo Zupide | Manuel Golmayo Torriente | Alexander Ferdinand von der Goltz | Alexey Goncharov | Solomon Gotthilf | Hermann von Gottschall | Roberto Grau | Bernhard Gregory | Vincent Grimm | Henri Grob | Aristide Gromer | Izaak Grynfeld | Ion Gudju | Ilse Guggenberger | Carlos Guimard | Gunnar Gundersen (chess player) | Dmitry Gurevich | Bukhuti Gurgenidze | Emanuel Guthi | Lev Gutman | Fritz Gygli | Vitaly Halberstadt | Hallegua (chess player) | Alexander Halprin | Carl Hamppe | Hermann von Hanneken | Khosro Harandi | Gisela Harum | Wolfgang Hasenfuss | Kornél Havasi | Fenny Heemskerk | Jakub Heilpern | Herbert Heinicke | Arved Heinrichsen | Grigory Helbach | Karl Helling | Moriz Henneberger | Walter Henneberger | Sigmund Herland | Róża Herman | Wilhelm Hilse | Moshe Hirschbein | Moses Hirschel | Albert Hodges | Arnold van den Hoek | Leopold Hoffer | Karl Holländer | Edith Holloway | Walther von Holzhausen | Krystyna Hołuj-Radzikowska | Baldur Hönlinger | Clarence Howell | Krunoslav Hulak | Alexander Huzman | Juan Iliesco | Rolando Illa | Stefan Izbinsky | Franz G. Jacob | Egil Jacobsen | Charles Jaffe | Jerzy Jagielski | Chaim Janowski | Nicolai Jasnogrodsky | Carlos Jauregui | Eleazar Jiménez | Walter John | Paul Johner | Paul Journoud | Max Judd | Klaus Junge | Otto Junge | Miervaldis Jursevskis | Bernhard Kagan | Shimon Kagan | Victor Kahn | Osmo Kaila | Ilya Kan | Julio Kaplan | Arthur Kaufmann | Hermann Keidanski | Rudolf Keller | Emil Kemény | Edvins Kengis | Hugh Alexander Kennedy | Abram Khavin | Feliks Kibbermann | R.K. Kieseritzky | Olof Kinnmark | Ove Kinnmark | Jan Kleczyński, Jr. | Jan Kleczyński, Sr. | Paul Klein (chess player) | Zelman Kleinstein | Janis Klovans | Gyula Kluger | Berthold Koch | Artur Kogan | Anton Kohler | Stanisław Kohn | Friedrich Köhnlein | Jakub Kolski | Henrijeta Konarkowska-Sokolov | Jerzy Konikowski | Alexander Konstantinopolsky | Imre König | N. Koppelman (chess player) | Imre Korody | Gary Koshnitsky | Jan Kotrč | Čeněk Kottnauer | Bachar Kouatly | Vlatko Kovačević | Boris Koyalovich | Yair Kraidman | Adolf Kraemer | Adolf Kramer | Haije Kramer | Orla Hermann Krause | Josef Krejcik | Leon Kremer | Paul Krüger (chess player) | Arvid Kubbel | Adam Kuligowski | Abhijit Kunte | Abraham Kupchik | Viktor Kupreichik | Alla Kushnir | Jan Kvicala | Max Lange | Salomon Langleben | Ernst Larsson | Berthold Lasker | Milda Lauberte | Leho Laurine | Frédéric Lazard | Gustave Lazard | Sergey Lebedev | Peter Leepin | Norman van Lennep | Konstantin Lerner | René Letelier | Alexander Levin | Jacob Levin (chess player) | Naum Levin | Irina Levitina | Stepan Levitsky | Jerzy Lewi | Moritz Lewitt | Vladimir Liberzon | Theodor Lichtenhein | Arturo Liebstein | Darcy Lima | Paul Lipke | Georgy Lisitsin | Paul List | Marta Litinskaya-Shul | Josef Lokvenc | Rudolf Loman | Moishe Lowtzky | Edward Löwe | Otto Löwenborg | Leopold Löwy, Jr | Leopold Löwy, Sr | Markas Luckis | Stig Lundholm | Erik Lundin | Francisco Lupi | George Alcock MacDonnell | Gottlieb Machate | Aleksandras Machtas | Bartłomiej Macieja | Nicholas MacLeod | Carlos Maderna | Kazimierz Makarczyk | Gyula Makovetz | Boris Maliutin | Max Marchand | Georg Marco | Davide Marotti | Dion Martinez | Giovanni Martinolich | Houshang Mashian | Isaak Mazel | Antonio Medina | Philipp Meitner | Olga Menchik | Iosif Mendelssohn | Julius Mendheim | Johannes Metger | Voldemars Mežgailis | Victor Mikhalevski | Paul Michel (chess player) | Edith Michell | Reginald Price Michell | Samuel Mieses | Abram Model | Charles Moehle | Jorgen Moeller | Baldur Möller | Ariah Mohiliver | Léon Monosson | Mario Monticelli | María Teresa Mora | Kalikst Morawski | Bruno Moritz | John Morrison (chess player) | Paul Mross | André Muffang | César Muñoz | Hans Müller | Augusto de Muro | Lhamsuren Myagmarsuren | Géza Nagy | Mario Napolitano | Edmund Nash | Ozren Nedeljković | Iivo Nei | Oleg Neikirch | Vladimir Nenarokov | Vincenzo Nestler | Augustin Neumann | Gustav Neumann | Bjørn Nielsen | Walter Niephaus | Allan Nilsson | Josef Noa | Federico Norcia | Holger Norman-Hansen | Heinz Nowarra | Friedrich Nürnberg | Gustaf Nyholm | John O'Hanlon | Lembit Oll | Adolf Georg Olland | Karel Opočenský | Wilhelm Orbach | Menachem Oren | Gerard Oskam | Kārlis Ozols | Sam Palatnik | Luis Palau (chess player) | Wilfried Paulsen | Nikolay Pavlov-Pianov | Jiří Pelikán | Roman Pelts | Julius Perlis | Frederic Perrin | Raaphi Persitz | Jusefs Petkevich | Gerhard Pfeiffer | Luis Piazzini | Herman Pilnik | Karol Piltz | Albert Pinkus | Oskar Piotrowski | Rudolf Pitschak | Karl Pitschel | Albin Planinc | Kazimierz Plater | Joseph Platz | Isaias Pleci | David Podhorzer | Henryk Pogorieły | Iosif Pogrebyssky | Amos Pokorny | Rudolph Pokorny | David Polland | William Pollock (chess player) | Arturo Pomar | Stepan Popel | Ignatz von Popiel | Artur Poplawski | Yosef Porath | Moritz Porges | Karl Poschauko | Ehrhardt Post | Peter Potemkine | Ludovit Potuček | Christian Poulsen (chess player) | Edith Charlotte Price | Stojan Puc | Viktors Pupols | Oscar Quinones | Miguel Quinteros | Braslav Rabar | Abram Rabinovich | Ilya Rabinovich | Maurice Raizman | Meir Rauch | Ilmar Raud | Damian Reca | Teodor Regedziński | Arturo Reggio | Brian Reilly | Heinrich Reinhardt | Salome Reischer | Ludwig Rellstab (chess player) | Georges Renaud | Pál Réthy | Ramón Rey Ardid | Pablo Ricardi | Kurt Richter | Antonio Rico | Fritz Riemann | Elfriede Rinder | Paul Rinne | Nikolai Riumin | William Rivier | Walter Robinow | Michael Roiz | Ludwig Rödl | H. Roepstorff (chess player) | Gustav Rogmann | Ivan Vladimir Rohaček | Alexander Romanovsky | Peter Romanovsky | Barbato Rometti | Max Romih | Chris de Ronde | Catharina Roodzant | Salme Rootare | Bernardo Roselli | Leon Rosen | Andreas Rosendahl | Karl Wilhelm Rosenkrantz | Jacob Rosenthal | Samuel Rosenthal | Stefano Rosselli del Turco | Simon Rotenstein | Gersz Rotlewi | Solomon Rozental | Eduardas Rozentalis | Serge Rubanraut | Carl Ruben | Jorge Rubinetti | Emanuel Rubinstein | José Rubinstein | Simon Rubinstein | Solomon Rubinstein | Iosif Rudakovsky | Mary Rudge | Nikoly Rudnev | Otto Rüster | Peter Petrovich Saburov | Antonio Sacconi | Yousof Safvat | Yuri Sakharov | Gersz Salwe | Sergiu Samarian | Luis Augusto Sánchez | Raúl Sanguineti | Anthony Santasiere | Emmanuel Sapira | Zoltan Sarosy | Harold Saunders | Morris Schapiro | Willem Schelfhout | Willi Schlage | Lothar Schmid | Paul Felix Schmidt | Włodzimierz Schmidt | Ludwig Schmitt | Wilhelm Schönmann | Georg Schories | Carl Schorn | Leon Schorr | Arnold Schottländer | František Schubert | Jan Schulz | Aaron Schwartzman | Gabriel Schwartzman | Leon Schwartzmann | Paulette Schwartzmann | Adolf Schwarz | Jacques Schwarz | Samuel Schweber | Adolf Seitz | Alexey Selezniev | Lidia Semenova | Edward Guthlac Sergeant | Alexander Sergeev | Ilya Shumov | Félix Sicre | Bruno Edgar Siegheim | Adolphe Silbert | Adhemar da Silva Rocha | Stanislaus Sittenfeld | Karel Skalička | Shlomo Smiltiner | Stephen Francis Smith | Vasily Osipovich Smyslov | Alexey Sokolsky | Alexander Solovtsov | Ariel Sorin | Gennadi Sosonko | Victor Soultanbeieff | Vladimir Sournin | Hugo Spangenberg | Abraham Speijer | Nikolaus Stanec | Elias Stein (chess player) | Endre Steiner | Lajos Steiner | Károly Sterk | Adolf Stern (chess player) | Agnes Stevenson | Mark Stolberg | Gösta Stoltz | Mladen Šubarić | Hugo Süchting | Berthold Suhle | Franciszek Sulik | Sven Otto Svensson | Rudolf Swiderski | Eugenio Szabados | Gedali Szapiro | Salomon Szapiro | Rudolph Sze | József Szén | József Szily | Jorge Szmetan | Aleksander Sznapik | Abram Szpiro | Bogdan Śliwa | Sandor Takacs | Lian Ann Tan | László Tapasztó | Jean Taubenhaus | Lev Taussig | Povilas Tautvaišas | Jan Willem te Kolsté | Oscar Tenner | Miodrag Todorcevic | Vasilije Tomović | Alice Tonini | Yury Toshev | Izaak Towbin | Herbert William Trenchard | František Treybal | Anatol Tschepurnoff | Alexander Tsvetkov | Leon Tuhan-Baranowski | Myroslav Turiansky | Johannes Türn | Isador Samuel Turover | Alexandru Tyroler | Louis Uedemann | Maximilian Ujtelky | Tadev Ujtumen | Samuil Vainshtein | Povilas Vaitonis | Árpád Vajda | Cyril Vansittart | Boris Verlinsky | Milan Vidmar jr | Benito Villegas | Yakov Vilner | William Samuel Viner | Juan Vinuesa | Isakas Vistaneckis | Alvis Vitolinš | Louis van Vliet | Erwin Voellmy | Zvonko Vranesic | Vladimir Vuković | Konstantin Vygodchikov | Alexander Wagner | Heinrich Wagner | Victor Wahltuch | Carl Walbrodt | George Walker (chess player) | Max Walter | Puchen Wang | Henri Weenink | Otto Wegemund | Wolfgang Weil | Erich Weinitschke | Carl Wemmers | Bernardo Wexler | Kasimir de Weydlich | Arthur Wijnans | Victor Winz | Heinrich Wolf | Siegfried Reginald Wolf | Paula Wolf-Kalmar | Balduin Wolff | Olavo Yépez | Mikhail Yudovich | Peter Yurdansky | Józef Żabiński | Aron Zabłudowski | Lazar Zalkind | Oswaldo Zambrana | Abram Zamikhovsky | Alonso Zapata | Pablo Zarnicki | Elmars Zemgalis | Otto Zimmermann | Adolf Zinkl | Emil Zinner | František Zíta | Leo Zobel | Nikolai Zubarev | Adolf Zytogorski

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List of strong chess tournaments | List of nationality transfers in chess | List of people who have beaten José Raúl Capablanca in chess | List of people who have beaten Bobby Fischer in chess | Alexander Alekhine | Efim Bogoljubov | Fedor Bohatirchuk | Paul Keres | Salo Landau | Johannes Minckwitz | Vladimirs Petrovs | 1st Chess Olympiad | 2nd Chess Olympiad | 3rd Chess Olympiad | 4th Chess Olympiad | 5th Chess Olympiad | 6th Chess Olympiad | 7th Chess Olympiad | 8th Chess Olympiad | 9th Chess Olympiad | List of chess openings named after places | List of chess players

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		The Running Man Barnstar
		I award you this barnstar for your fine contributions to the chess articles. Thank you. Ioannes Pragensis 19:29, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		For your innumerable and invaluable contributions on historical chess figures. youngvalter 03:06, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		For constantly creating well referenced chess biographies SunCreator (talk) 16:24, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

		Ukraine Barnstar
		I give you this Ukraine Barnstar for expanding the List of Ukrainians article, and your not even Ukrainian ;) ! — Mariah-Yulia (talk) 14:02, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

Thank you, Mi, for your articles on Lithuanian chess players. It means a lot to know that somebody cares about this history. Andrius Kulikauskas.