Aleksander Miśta (born 7 January 1983) is a Polish
chess
Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...
Grandmaster (2004) and FIDE Trainer (2012).
Chess career
Aleksander Miśta is a multiple medalist of the Polish Junior Chess Championship:
* Gold: 1991 (U10), 2000 (U18), 2001 (U18);
* Silver: 2000 (U20), 2003 (U20);
* Bronze: 1993 (U10), 1999 (U16), 2001 (U20), 2002 (U20).
In 2009 he was third in
Polish Chess Championship
Individual Polish Chess Championship is the most important Polish chess tournament, aiming at selecting the best chess players in Poland. Based on the results of the tournament (mainly), the Polish Chess Federation selects the national and subseque ...
. Aleksander Miśta was runner up at the
Miguel Najdorf
Miguel Najdorf (born Mojsze Mendel Najdorf) (15 April 1910 – 4 July 1997) was a Polish–Argentinian chess grandmaster. Originally from Poland, he was in Argentina when World War II began in 1939, and he stayed and settled there. He was a ...
Memorial Tournament in 2010.
In 2014 he won ''Banca Feroviar Open'' tournament in the
Arad and was third in the
Polish Blitz Chess Championship in
Bydgoszcz
Bydgoszcz ( , , ; german: Bromberg) is a city in northern Poland, straddling the meeting of the River Vistula with its left-bank tributary, the Brda. With a city population of 339,053 as of December 2021 and an urban agglomeration with more ...
.
Aleksander Miśta is the former coach of the Polish Women's team for the
European Team Chess Championship
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(2011, Poland team won the silver medal) and the
40th Chess Olympiad
The 40th Chess Olympiad ( tr, 40. Satranç Olimpiyatı), organised by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs and comprising an open and women's tournament, as well as several events designed to promote the game of chess, took place in Istan ...
(2012).
Also Aleksander Miśta is successful in solving chess competition. He three times won team gold for Poland in
World Chess Solving Championship
The World Chess Solving Championship (WCSC) is an annual competition in the solving of chess problems (also known as chess puzzles) organized by the World Federation for Chess Composition (WFCC), previously by FIDE via the Permanent Commission of t ...
:
* 2012 in
Kobe
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,
* 2013 in
Batumi
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,
* 2014 in
Bern
german: Berner(in)french: Bernois(e) it, bernese
, neighboring_municipalities = Bremgarten bei Bern, Frauenkappelen, Ittigen, Kirchlindach, Köniz, Mühleberg, Muri bei Bern, Neuenegg, Ostermundigen, Wohlen bei Bern, Zollikofen
, website ...
.
In January 2021, Mista tied for first place with IM Zurab Javakhadze in the Charlotte Chess Center's Winter 2021 GM Norm Invitational held in
Charlotte, North Carolina
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with an undefeated score of 6.0/9.
Personal life
Aleksander Miśta studied physics at the
Gdańsk University of Technology
The Gdańsk University of Technology (Gdańsk Tech, former ''GUT''; pl, Politechnika Gdańska) is a technical university in the Wrzeszcz borough of Gdańsk, and one of the oldest universities in Poland. It has eight faculties and with 41 fi ...
.
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1983 births
Polish chess players
Chess Grandmasters
Living people
People from Myszków
Gdańsk University of Technology alumni