Jacek Gdański (born 30 November 1970) 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 ...

player who won the

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 ...

in 1992.

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Grandmaster (1997).

Chess career

In the second half of the 1980s Jacek Gdański was a leading Polish chess junior. In 1986 he won the Polish Junior Chess Championship (U-20) and the bronze medal in European Junior Chess Championship. In 1989 Jacek Gdański won the silver medal in the

World Junior Chess Championship The World Junior Chess Championship is an under-20 chess tournament (players must have been under 20 years old on 1 January in the year of competition) organized by the World Chess Federation (FIDE). The idea was the brainchild of William Ritso ...

. Many times played in the Polish Chess Championship's finals. He won one gold (1992), and two bronze (1997 - he came third in the playoff, 2010) medals. Twice he won the Polish

Fast Chess Fast chess, also known as Speed chess, is a type of chess in which each player is given less time to consider their moves than normal tournament time controls allow. Fast chess is subdivided, by decreasing time controls, into rapid chess, blitz ...

Championship (1995, 2000) and the Polish Blitz Championship (1998, 2000). In Polish Team Chess Championships Jacek Gdański won eight medals: nine gold (1996, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2010), seven silver (1990, 1992, 1993, 1997, 2009, 2011, 2012) and bronze (1995). He was awarded the

International Master FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE (''Fédération Internationale des Échecs'') for outstanding performance. The highest such title is Grandmaster (GM). Titles generally require a combination of Elo rating and ...

title in 1988 and Grandmaster title in 1997. He won or shared first place in the international chess tournaments: in "Cracovia" (

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) (1993, 1994), in

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and

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(1999). In 2001 Jacek Gdański qualified for the FIDE World Chess Championship by knockout system in

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, where he lost in the first round to

Vadim Zvjaginsev Vadim Zvjaginsev (; born 18 August 1976 in Moscow) is a Russian chess player who received the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM) in 1994. He played for the gold medal-winning Russian team in the 1997 World Team Chess Championship and in the 1998 Che ...

. Jacek Gdański played for Poland in

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s: * In 1990, at second reserve board in the

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(+5, =4, -1), * In 1992, at third board in the

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(+3, =6, -2), * In 1994, at third board in the

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(+5, =4, -2). Jacek Gdański played for Poland and Poland Goldies (2013) in

European Team Chess Championship The European Team Championship (often abbreviated in texts and games databases as ''ETC'') is an international team chess event, eligible for the participation of European nations whose chess federations are located in zones 1.1 to 1.9. This more ...

:OlimpBase :: European Men's Team Chess Championship :: Jacek Gdański
/ref> * In 1989, at first reserve board in the 9th European Team Chess Championship in

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(+3, =5, -0), * In 1992, at third board in the 10th European Team Chess Championship in

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(+3, =0, -5), * In 2013, at fourth board in the 19th European Team Chess Championship in

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(+2, =3, -4).

Personal life

Jacek Gdański successfully combined playing chess at a high level with completing studies at the

University of Gdańsk The University of Gdańsk ( pl, Uniwersytet Gdański) is a public research university located in Gdańsk, Poland. It is one of the top 10 universities in Poland and is also an important centre for the studies of the Kashubian language. History ...

and the National School of Public Administration. In 2004-2009 he was a member of the Poland National Health Fund. Since 2009 he working in the

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