Jacek Gdański

Jacek Gdański, Bydgoszcz 2013
Association	Poland
Born	November 30, 1970 Szczecinek , Poland
title	International Master (1988) Grand Master (1997)
Current  Elo rating	2489 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2557 (July and October 2000)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Jacek Gdański (born November 30, 1970 in Szczecinek ) is a Polish chess grandmaster .

Life

Gdański was the dominant Polish youth player in the second half of the 1980s. In 1986 he was Polish youth champion U20 and won bronze at the European youth championship. At the U20 youth world championships in 1989 he lost a long lead due to a defeat in the final round and was runner-up behind Wassil Spassow . Gdański's successes as a youth triggered a chess boom in Poland: Many parents then registered their children in chess clubs. From 1990 to 2004 he took part in thirteen Polish championships, becoming national champion in 1992 and third in 1997 after play-offs for first place. 1997 awarded him FIDE the Grandmaster title . His most significant successes in international tournaments include victories in Koszalin 1997, Helsinki 1999 and Rio de Janeiro 1999. In 2001 he took part in the FIDE KO World Championship in Moscow , but was eliminated in the first round against Vadim Svyagintsev .

Gdański, a trained Scandinavian , is not a professional chess player. He works in the Polish Ministry of Finance. His older brother Przemysław Gdański is a FIDE master and was president of the Polish Chess Federation from 2003 to 2004.

Team chess

Gdański took part with the Polish national team in the 1990 , 1992 and 1994 Chess Olympiads and the European Team Championships in 1989, 1992 and 2013 (in the third team).

In the Polish team championship Gdański played from 1989 to 1991 for KS Piast Słupsk , with whom he took part in the European Club Cup in 1992, from 1992 to 1997 and from 2000 to 2004 for KSz Polonia Warszawa , with whom he played in 1996 , 2000 , 2001 , 2002 , In 2003 and 2004 he became the Polish team champion and took part in the European Club Cup four times (with the second place being achieved three times), and from 2006 to 2013 for KSz HetMaN Szopienice , with whom he became the Polish team champion in 2007 , 2008 , 2010 and 2013 .

In the German federal chess league he played for König Plauen from 1999 to 2004 , in Sweden he has been playing for Eksjö SK since 2002 , which has played in the Elitserien since then (except in the 2002/03 season and from 2007 to 2009) .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 84.
2. ↑ Jacek Gdański's biography on www.szachypolskie.pl (Polish)
3. ↑ Jacek Gdański's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
4. ↑ Jacek Gdański's results at the European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
5. ↑ ^{a b} Jacek Gdański's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
6. ↑ Jacek Gdański's results at Polish team championships on olimpbase.org (English)

Web links

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