At the turn of 1965 and 1966, Waldemar Jagodziński took part in the cyclical Round-robin tournament in Reggio Emilia. He took a distant place, but he was the only one who beat the winner, Yugoslavian Grandmaster, Bruno Parma.[1] Waldemar Jagodziński achieved his greatest chess successes in the 1970s. Twice in row (1973 and 1974, both in Łódź) he won the silver medals in Polish Blitz Chess Championship.[2][3] Waldemar Jagodziński was also a three-time medalist of Polish Team Chess Championship: in 1952 (with the ches club ZS Spójnia Bydgoszcz) and 1974 - bronze, and in 1978 - gold (with the ches club KS Łączność Bydgoszcz).[4] In Polish Chess Championship he appeared only once in his career in 1976 in Bydgoszcz, but in the Swiss-system tournament he took a distant place.[5]
Waldemar Jagodziński raised several generations of chess players. Among his pupils, the most successful was one of his daughters, Joanna, who is Women International Master (WIM) four-time medalist of the Polish Women's Chess Championship and bronze medalist of the World Girls U-20 Championship (1983). His other daughter, Hanna Zboroń, also has chess career but chose a career as a scientist in Poznań University of Economics and Business.[6]
Waldemar Jagodziński is buried in the Catholic Cemetery of St. Vincent de Paul in Bydgoszcz.[7]
