Wincenty Budzyński
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Wincenty Budzyński (Budzinski, Budzinsky) (1815, Volhynia – 5 May 1866, Paris) was a Polish politician agent and Polish–French chess master.
Wincenty Budzyński | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1815 Volhynia, Russian Empire |
| Died | May 5, 1866 Paris, France |
| Other names | Budzinski, Budzinsky |
| Education | Liceum Krzemienieckie |
| Occupations | Political agent, Chess master |
| Known for | Political agent of Hôtel Lambert; chess master at Café de la Régence |
| Notable work | Matches vs. Kieseritzky, Dubois, Morphy, Harrwitz |
| Movement | Polish émigré politics |
| Spouse | French citizen (m. 1850) |
Born into a Polish noble family in Volhynia, he graduated from the Liceum Krzemienieckie. He fought against Russians in the November Uprising in 1831. After being injured in a battle, he went to Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, where was arrested by Austrians and expelled two years later. He arrived in England, then in Belgium, and finally in France. He became a political agent of Adam Jerzy Czartoryski - a prominent Polish-émigré political figure, head of a political faction accordingly called the Hôtel Lambert - in the 1840s. After a collapse of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, he married a French woman in 1850, and withdrew from political activity.[1][2]
He played chess at the famous Café de la Régence in Paris, where - among others - lost casual and formal matches to Lionel Kieseritzky (1 : 2) in 1850, Serafino Dubois (6.5 : 13.5) in 1855,[3] Paul Morphy (1.5 : 5.5, Morphy gave odds of pawn and move) in 1858 and (0 : 7) in 1859, and beat Daniel Harrwitz (3 : 1, Harrwitz gave odds of pawn and move) in 1859.[4]
