Wanda Zartobliwy vs Karol Wojtyla (1947)

Wanda Zartobliwy vs Karol Wojtyla
Krakow (possibly composition) 1947 · Queen Pawn Game: Veresov Attack. Two Knights System (D01) · 0-1

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Oct-31-05		ArturoRivera: wow, another pope playing chess, nice game!

Oct-31-05		2ndNature: I wonder who "W. Zartobliwy" really was - the name looks like being made up.

Oct-31-05		2ndNature: CG, it looks like you have been fooled! http://www.astercity.net/~vistula/v...

Jun-04-08		ounos: 27. Rd3 Qxc4 28. Rxd7+, or 27. ...Qa4 28. Kxa2 should be winning for white, right?

Nov-02-09		vonKrolock: That link to the letter by Tomasz Lissowski (Quarterly for Chess History, vol 4/2000) seems not to be working properly... quote <"Soon after the election of the Polish cardinal to the Pope's office (October 1978), some joking chess lover decided to outwit the editors of the French chess journal Europe Echecs. Playing roles of Pawel Zartobliwy from Malta and Michal Rodzaj from Portugal ("old, good friends of Karol Wojtyla from his student days"), he sent to the editor the record of the game Wanda Zartobliwy vs Karol Wojtyla (Cracow 1946), together with three problems, two-movers and three-movers. Two of them were allegedly published in the "RSK" - the weekly for cracowian students. Young Wojtyla's interest in composing chess problem was explained by the fact he had been a relative of Marian Wrobel (1907-1960), the well-known Polish author of chess studies. The editors of Europe Echecs, believing the truth of this information, published the game and problems in the January 1979 issue. A little later the same author made one more effort. This time he pretended to be the Holy Father himself (!) and on faked stationary of the Holy See he sent a personal letter to the editor of Europe Echecs, enclosed another problem, "not published until now". Also this correspondence failed to arouse any suspicion in the editorial office and was reprinted in the April issue of the journal in 1979.">

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