| 15th Polish Team Chess Championship: 1959 |
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| 15th Polish Team Chess Championship (see all-time tournament summary) |
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| Dates: | Preliminaries: 11th-15th January 1959 Semifinal: 15th-17th February 1959 Final: ... |
| City: | Preliminaries: Toruń, Lublin, Katowice, Poznań Semifinal: Kraków Final: league system |
| Venue: | - |
| Organizing Body: | Sports Committee of Polish Chess Fed. |
| Chief Arbiter: | Semifinal: Eugeniusz Tkacz (POL) |
| Teams participating: | Preliminaries: 21 Final: 12 (including 2 qualifiers from preliminaries) |
| Players participating: | N/A |
| Games played: | Preliminaries: 364 (including forteits) Final: 528 |
| Competition format: | Winners of regional championships formed four preliminary groups (seven board round robin). Four winners of preliminaries formed four team round robin final, with top 2 teams qualified to the championship final. Two winners of semifinal were joined by top 10 from 1958 championship. Teams ranked 9th-12th in the championship were relegated to regional preliminaries. |
| Final order decided by: | 1. Game points; 2. Match points Final order was decided by match points in the preliminaries. |
| Time control: | N/A |
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| bd | name | club | % |
| 1. | Pytlakowski, Andrzej | LWAR | 77.3 |
| 2. | Balcerowski, Witold | LKSL | 72.7 |
| 3. | Gadaliński, Jan | LKSL | 90.9 |
| =4. | Knapczyk, Edward | KKSZ | 66.7 |
| =4. | Rudak, Władysław | PGWR | 66.7 |
| 5. | Kowalski, Michał | PGWR | 90.9 |
| 6. | Adamski, Andrzej | POLW | 86.4 |
| 7. | Śledziewski, Janusz | HTWR | 78.6 |
| wom. | Hołuj, Krystyna | GKSB | 88.9 |
| res. | Szpakowski, Marek | STKT | 72.7 |