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Jakub Kosakowski
Jakub Kosakowski (born 7 January 2002) is a Polish chess grandmaster (2025). Chess career Jakub Kosakowski has won medals at the Polish Youth Chess Championships five times: gold in Poronin in 2012 (U10 age group), gold in Suwałki in 2015 (U14 age group), silver in Ustroń in 2017 (U16 age group), gold in Jastrzębia Góra in 2018 (U16 age group), and silver in Szklarska Poręba in 2020 ([U18 age group). Jakub Kosakowski has won eight medals at the Polish Youth Rapid Chess Championships, including six gold medals: Warsaw in 2011 (U10 age group), Olszytyn in 2013 (U12 age group), Wrocław in 2014 (U12 age group), Koszalin in 2016 (U14 age grou), Wrocław in 2017 - (U16 age group), and Wrocław in 2018 (U16 age group). He has also won five medals at the Polish Youth Blitz Chess Championships, including two gold medals: Wrocław in 2014 (U12 age group), and Koszalin in 2016 (U14 age group). He represented Poland at World Youth Chess Championships (2 times) and European Youth Che ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FIDE Titles
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 norms (performance benchmarks in competitions including other titled players). Once awarded, titles are held for life except in cases of fraud or cheating. Open titles may be earned by all players, while women's titles are restricted to female players. Many strong female players hold both open and women's titles. FIDE also awards titles for arbiters, organizers and trainers. Titles for correspondence chess, chess problem composition and chess problem solving are no longer administered by FIDE. A chess title, usually in an abbreviated form, may be used as an honorific. For example, Magnus Carlsen may be styled as "Grandmaster (chess), GM Magnus Carlsen". History The term "master" for a strong chess player was initially used informally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chess
Chess is a board game for two players. It is an abstract strategy game that involves Perfect information, no hidden information and no elements of game of chance, chance. It is played on a square chessboard, board consisting of 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid. The players, referred to as White and Black in chess, "White" and "Black", each control sixteen Chess piece, pieces: one king (chess), king, one queen (chess), queen, two rook (chess), rooks, two bishop (chess), bishops, two knight (chess), knights, and eight pawn (chess), pawns, with each type of piece having a different pattern of movement. An enemy piece may be captured (removed from the board) by moving one's own piece onto the square it occupies. The object of the game is to "checkmate" (threaten with inescapable capture) the enemy king. There are also several ways a game can end in a draw (chess), draw. The recorded history of chess goes back to at least the emergence of chaturanga—also thought to be an ancesto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grandmaster (chess)
Grandmaster (GM) is a Chess title, title awarded to chess players by the world chess organization FIDE. Apart from World Chess Championship, World Champion, Grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can attain. Once achieved, the title is held for life, though exceptionally the title can be revoked for Cheating in chess, cheating. The title of Grandmaster, along with the lesser FIDE titles of FIDE titles#International Master (IM), International Master (IM), FIDE titles#FIDE Master (FM), FIDE Master (FM), and FIDE titles#Candidate Master (CM), Candidate Master (CM), is open to all players regardless of gender. The great majority of grandmasters are men, but 42 women have been awarded the GM title as of 2024, out of a total of about 2000 grandmasters. There is also a FIDE titles#Woman Grandmaster (WGM), Woman Grandmaster title with lower requirements awarded only to women. There are also Grandmaster titles for composers and solvers of chess problems, awarded by the World Federa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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. History Twelve world champions are crowned every year. Since 2015 (OR 2016), the event has been split into "World Cadets Chess Championship" (categories U8, U10 and U12) and "World Youth Chess Championship" (categories U14, U16 and U18). The championship is usually held in a single city, although on several occasions, the Under-16 championship was separated from the Under-18 championship (in 1990, 1991, 1995, and 1997). In 1988, the U18 championship was held in Aguadilla, and the others in Timișoara. The Under-16 (Cadet) category is the oldest of the championships. It was unofficially created in 1974 in France for players under 17 and was recognized in 1977 (or 1976) by the International Chess Federation as the World Cadet Championship. The maximum age was later reduced to under 16, effective January 1 of the year of the championshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
European Youth Chess Championship
The European Youth Chess Championship is organized by the European Chess Union (ECU) in groups under 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18 years old. History The first tournament was held in 1991, and the under 8 category was introduced in 2007. Until 2002 there was also a tournament for the under 20 group (see European Junior Chess Championship). There are also specific tournaments for girls only, in the same age categories. # Under 8 (Since 2007) # Under 10 # Under 12 # Under 14 # Under 16 # Under 18 (Since 1994) Editions * 2020 and 2021 not held. Medals 2018 Standard Boys winners : Girls winners : 2024 2024 European Youth Rapid and Blitz Chess Championship (42 Events) Results: Main Event open- 6 Events Main Event girls- 6 Events Rapid Blitz open- 12 Events Rapid Blitz girls- 12 Events Team Rapid open- 3 Events Team Rapid girls- 3 Events 23rd European Youth Blitz Championship 2024. Solving Competition Results *http://www.torneionline.com/loto.php?path=albi/02_Campionati_Europei [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polish Blitz Chess Championship
The Polish Blitz Chess Championship is a chess competition held annually in Poland. Medal winners Men Medal winners Women References {{Chess national championships Chess national championships Women's chess national championships Chess in Poland Recurring events established in 1966 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jastrzębia Góra
Jastrzębia Góra is a village on the south coast of the Baltic Sea in the Kashubia, in the administrative district of Gmina Władysławowo, within Puck County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately north-west of Władysławowo, north-west of Puck, and north-west of the regional capital Gdańsk. Prior to January 1, 2015, it was a part of the town Władysławowo. For details of the history of the region, see History of Pomerania. Gallery File:Jastrzębia góra.jpg, Beach at Jastrzębia Góra File:Jastrzębia Góra - beach.jpg File:Jastrzębia Góra - Dom Whisky 1.jpg, Whisky house, Jastrzębia Góra File:JastrzębiaGóra dom-do-góry-nogami-2.jpg, Upside down house in Jastrzębia Góra File:Gwiazda Północy - Jastrzębia Góra.jpg, "North Star Polaris is a star in the northern circumpolar constellation of Ursa Minor. It is designated α Ursae Minoris ( Latinized to ''Alpha Ursae Minoris'') and is commonly called the North Star ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Łazy
Łazy is a town in Zawiercie County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland. As of 2019, the town has 6,811 inhabitants. Łazy belongs to the historic region of Lesser Poland. History In the Middle Ages, in the area of today's Łazy were five settlements: Grabowa, Niegowonice, Wiesiolka, Wysoka and Ciagowice. Another village, which today is located within boundaries of Łazy, Chruszczobrod, belonged to the Duchy of Siewierz, which was incorporated directly into the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1790. In the year 1386, King Władysław II Jagiełło granted the villages of Niegowonice, Wiesiolka, Wysoka, Grabowa and Rokitno Szlacheckie to Włodek of Charbinowice, the starosta of Lublin and czesnik of Kraków. Until 1795, Grabowa, Hutki Kanki and Niegowoniczki belonged to Lelów County, while Niegowonice, WiesióΠka, Wysoka, Ciagowice, Rokitno Szlacheckie and Turza were part of Kraków County. During the Swedish invasion of Poland, the area of today's Łazy witnessed he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polanica-Zdrój
Polanica-Zdrój () is a spa town in Kłodzko County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It lies approximately south-west of Kłodzko, and south-west of the regional capital, Wrocław. As at 2021, the town has a population of 6110. History Polanica-Zdrój was first documented in 1347 under the name ''Heyde'', when it was part of the Kingdom of Bohemia. At the time it belonged to the House of Glaubitz, and in the following centuries it often changed owners. From the end of the 16th century the village was co-owned by the Jesuits, who contributed to its development. In 1645 it was destroyed by Swedish troops during the Thirty Years' War. In 1742 the settlement – like all the area – was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia. The settlement grew quickly during the 19th century, becoming a popular health resort in the 1870s, after Prussia had become a component state of Germany in 1871. In 1890 a rail connection to Glatz (Kłodzko) was completed. Until 1933, tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rubinstein Memorial
The Rubinstein Memorial is an annual chess tournament held in Polanica-Zdrój, Poland in honour of the chess legend Akiba Rubinstein. Rubinstein died in 1961 and the tournament had its first edition in 1963. The tournament usually consists of several tournaments in different rating or age groups. The main tournament is usually a closed round-robin tournament, while the other tournaments are open Swiss system tournament A Swiss-system tournament is a non-eliminating tournament format that features a fixed number of rounds of competition, but considerably fewer than for a round-robin tournament; thus each competitor (team or individual) does not play all the other ...s. Winners : External linksRubinstein Memorial, homepage [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
