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Now, that is HUGE! Huuuge Games breaks records with IPO on Warsaw Stock Exchange

The company that has 10 offices in eight countries around the world made the largest gaming IPO in Polish history and the largest mobile gaming IPO in European history today. Huuuge Games/Facebook

VIDEO: The company that has 10 offices in eight countries around the world made the largest gaming IPO in Polish history and the largest mobile gaming IPO in European history today.

Kraków academic develops new chess game after using lockdown to analyse Russian troops near Polish border

Zbigniew Kokosiński from the Kraków University of Technology was using his traditional chessboard to arrange the pieces to depict a metaphor for Moscow’s military forces in the Russian region of Kaliningrad when he came across his new method.

Described as being 'one of the fathers of modern chess', Łódź chess master Akiba Rubinstein was a tormented genius

As Netflix viewers across the globe revel in binge-watching The Queen’s Gambit, TFN looks back at one of the greatest world champions that never was: a player that held the planet in his palm until fate intervened.

Poland's chess-player beats world champion at Norwegian tournament

Polish chess-player Jan Krzysztof Duda on Saturday defeated the world champion, Magnus Carlsen, in the fifth round of the Altibox Norway Chess tournament in Stavanger, Norway, that featured the world's leading players.

Gorgeous amber chess set returns to Gdańsk after 300 years

The rare set, of which there are only four in the world, came with a hefty price tag: the museum bought it for around 2.4 million złoty (over 0.5 million euros).

Polish Grandmaster defeats reigning world speed chess champion

Jan-Krzysztof Duda (22) from Wieliczka in southern Poland on Wednesday defeated Norwegian world champion Magnus Carlsen in the seventh round of the prestigious Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge online speed chess tournament.

Arabian knights: Poles take top three places in Gulf chess tournament

The clean sweep in the competition help maintains a long tradition of Polish success at problem solving chess.

Not as draught as it sounds: Bored programmer looking for new job comes up with Poland’s most successful game app – EVER!

The draughts game app has now been downloaded over 48 million times. The advertising revenue earned from it has allowed him to now quit his job and set up his own mobile game development company.

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  • The systematic massacre of all children under 10 will forever be a stain on humanity, says TFN’s Stuart Dowell
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Caught red-handed between the past and the future, Praga is a sensory explosion of noise and colour

This was where angels feared to tread. But changes have been meteoric. If Praga was once a byword for abandonment and decay, today it has become a calling card for the very concept of urban regeneration.

The first report:

  • Two explosions caused Smolensk air crash, claims film
  • Ceremonies across Poland commemorate presidential plane disaster
  • Polish Investment Zone starts 96 projects in 1st quarter - ministry
  • Poland's central bank records EUR 2.05 bln net profit in 2020 - NBP chief
  • President sends condolences to Queen Elizabeth II

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Forgotten composer who played for Polish king and co-founded Edinburgh Festival rediscovered after distant relative finds online ad for his rare piano

Josie Dixon had little idea that her great-great-great-great grandfather Felix Yaniewicz was one of the 19th century’s most notable composers until a chance conversation about a Stradivarius violin led her on a path of discovery.

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Caught red-handed between the past and the future, Praga is a sensory explosion of noise and colour

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