Jacek Gdański (born 30 November 1970) is a Polish
chess
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player who won the
Polish Chess Championship
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in 1992.
FIDE
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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
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The idea was the brainchild of William Rits ...
.
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
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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
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title in 1988 and
Grandmaster title in 1997.
He won or shared first place in the international chess tournaments: in "Cracovia" (
Kraków
, officially the Royal Capital City of Kraków, is the List of cities and towns in Poland, second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city has a population of 804,237 ...
) (1993, 1994), in
Helsinki
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and
Rio de Janeiro
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(1999). In 2001 Jacek Gdański qualified for the
FIDE World Chess Championship by knockout system in
Moscow
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, where he lost in the first round to
Vadim Zvjaginsev.
Jacek Gdański played for Poland in
Chess Olympiad
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s:
* In 1990, at second reserve board in the
29th Chess Olympiad
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in
Novi Sad
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(+5, =4, -1),
* In 1992, at third board in the
30th Chess Olympiad
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in
Manila
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(+3, =6, -2),
* In 1994, at third board in the
31st Chess Olympiad
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in
Moscow
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(+5, =4, -2).
Jacek Gdański played for Poland and Poland Goldies (2013) in
European Team Chess Championship
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:
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* In 1989, at first reserve board in the 9th European Team Chess Championship in Haifa
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(+3, =5, -0),
* In 1992, at third board in the 10th European Team Chess Championship in Debrecen
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(+3, =0, -5),
* In 2013, at fourth board in the 19th European Team Chess Championship in Warsaw
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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
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History
The Universi ...
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 Ministry of Finance
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.
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1970 births
Polish chess players
Chess Grandmasters
Chess Olympiad competitors
University of Gdańsk alumni
Living people
National School of Public Administration (Poland) alumni
Polish civil servants