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| Franciszek Sulik | |
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| Full name | Franciszek Sulik |
| Country | Poland Australia |
| Born | 1908 Lviv |
| Died | 2000 (aged ca. 92) Adelaide |
Franciszek (Frank) Sulik (1908, Lviv, Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine) – 2000, Adelaide, Australia) was a Polish-Australian chess master.
Before World War II, he lived in Lviv (Lvov, Lwów, Lemberg). In 1934, he tied for 2nd-3rd with Henryk Friedman, behind Stepan Popel, in the Lviv championship. In 1935, he tied for 8-9th in Warsaw (3rd POL-ch; Savielly Tartakower won). In 1936, he took 2nd, behind Izak Schächter, in the Lviv-ch. In 1938, he won the Lviv championship.
He played for Poland in Chess Olympiads, and won two team silver medals.
In September 1939, when World War II broke out, Sulik, along with many other participants of the 8th Chess Olympiad (Najdorf, Stahlberg, Frydman, Eliskases, Michel, Engels, Becker, Reinhardt, Pelikan, Skalička, Luckis, Feigins, Raud, Rauch, Winz, Gromer, Czerniak, Seitz, de Ronde, Kleinstein, Sonja Graf, Paulette Schwartzmann, etc.) decided to stay permanently in Argentina.[2] In 1940, he took 2nd place, behind Aristide Gromer, in Buenos Aires (Bodas de Plata). In 1941, he tied for 10-12th in the Mar del Plata 1941 chess tournament (Gideon Stahlberg won).
As a reserve officer, he applied to join the Polish Army. He left Argentina on a British battleship to fight in Italy from 1943 to 1945.
At the end of the war he moved to Scotland, before emigrating to Australia, where he won the South Australian Championship nine times (1954, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1977, and 1978).[3]