Kacper Piorun (born 24 November 1991) is a Polish

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player who received the

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of Grandmaster (GM) in September 2012. He is a five-time winner of the

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 ...

, and two-time winner of 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 ...

Career

In 2007, Piorun won the Polish under-16 chess championship in

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. In 2009, he finished third in the

World Youth Chess Championship The World Youth Chess Championship is a FIDE-organized worldwide chess competition for boys and girls under the age of 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18. Twelve world champions are crowned every year. Since 2015, the event has been split into "World Cade ...

. In 2010, he won the

Rubinstein Memorial The Rubinstein Memorial is an annual chess tournament held in Polanica-Zdrój, Poland in honour of the chess legend Akiba Rubinstein Akiba Kiwelowicz Rubinstein (1 December 1880 – 14 March 1961) was a Polish chess player. He is considered to h ...

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. In 2013, he won the Polish Blitz Chess Championship in

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. In 2015, Piorun took clear first place at the 17th Open of Sants, Hostafrancs & La Bordeta in

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and at the 19th Open International Bavarian Chess Championship in

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. He has also competed successfully in several Polish Team Chess Championships. He won the Polish chess championship in 2017 and in 2020. Piorun played for Poland in the European U18 Team Chess Championship in 2008, winning two gold medals (team and individual on board 3), and 2009, winning the team silver. He took part in the 2013

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, playing on board 4 for Poland's second team. Piorun is an excellent

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solver. In 2011, he won the individual

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and became an

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as a result. Piorun won the world individual title also in 2014 in

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, 2015 in

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and 2016 in

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. He won team gold with Poland at the World Chess Solving Championship in Jesi 2011,

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2012,

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2013, Berne 2014, Ostróda 2015, Belgrade 2016 and Dresden 2017 events. During the 2018 Chess Olympiad in

, he defeated the thirteenth best player in the world,

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with

David Anton Guijarro David (; , "beloved one") (traditional spelling), , ''Dāwūd''; grc-koi, Δαυΐδ, Dauíd; la, Davidus, David; gez , ዳዊት, ''Dawit''; xcl, Դաւիթ, ''Dawitʿ''; cu, Давíдъ, ''Davidŭ''; possibly meaning "beloved one". w ...

Ferenc Berkes Ferenc Berkes (born 8 August 1985) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster. He is an eight-time Hungarian Chess Champion, winning in 2004, 2007, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016 and 2018. In 2002, he was World Under 18 Champion. In 2004 he tied for ...

Niclas Huschenbeth Niclas Huschenbeth (born 29 February 1992) is a German chess grandmaster and a two-time German Chess Champion (2010, 2019). He played in the Chess Olympiads of 2008 and 2010. Chess career Huschenbeth won the German championship in 2010. He came ...

Sergei Movsesian Sergei Movsesian ( hy, Սերգեյ Մովսիսյան; born 3 November 1978) is an Armenian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1997. He was a member of the gold medal-winning Armenian team at the 2011 World Team Chess ...

Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu (born 1 August 1976) is a Romanian (until 2014) and German (since 2014) chess grandmaster. His peak FIDE rating was 2707 in October 2005, when he was ranked fifteenth in the world, and the highest rated Romanian player eve ...

Grigoriy Oparin Grigoriy Alekseyevich Oparin (russian: Григо́рий Алексе́евич Опа́рин; born 1 July 1997) is a Russian-American chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2013. Career Oparin was awarded the title ...

Maxim Rodshtein Maxim Rodshtein ( he, מקסים רודשטיין, russian: Максим Эдуардович Родштейн, translit=Maksim Eduardovich Rodshtein; born 19 January 1989) is an Israeli chess grandmaster. He competed in the FIDE World Cup in 20 ...

, and

Eltaj Safarli Eltaj Safarli ( az, Eltac Səfərli; born 18 May 1992 in Baku) is an Azerbaijani chess Grandmaster. In October 2016, he reached his all-time-highest rating of 2694 and was ranked as No. 3 in Azerbaijan and No. 46 in the world. He entered tourna ...

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