Jacek Stopa (born 3 January 1987 in

Wrocław Wrocław (; german: Breslau, or . ; Silesian German: ''Brassel'') is a city in southwestern Poland and the largest city in the historical region of Silesia. It lies on the banks of the River Oder in the Silesian Lowlands of Central Europe, rou ...

) is a Polish

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 ...

and Grandmaster chess player.

Chess career

He is a three-time gold medalist of the Polish junior championships: under 12 (1999, Wisła), under 18 (2005, Łeba) and under 20 (2006, Środa Wlkp.). In addition, in 2005 in Środa Wlkp. he won a bronze medal in the category under the age of 20. In 2004 he shared the first place (together with

Zigurds Lanka Zigurds Lanka (born May 21, 1960 in Baldone) is a Latvian chess player. In chess, he received the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) in 1987 and Grandmaster (GM) in 1992. In correspondence chess, he earned the title of Correspondence Ch ...

) in the grandmaster tournament in

Legnica Legnica (Polish: ; german: Liegnitz, szl, Lignica, cz, Lehnice, la, Lignitium) is a city in southwestern Poland, in the central part of Lower Silesia, on the Kaczawa River (left tributary of the Oder) and the Czarna Woda (Kaczawa), Czarna Woda ...

. A year later, he won (before, among others, Monika Soćko, Bartłomiej Heberla and

Aleksander Miśta Aleksander Miśta (born 7 January 1983) is a Polish chess Grandmaster (2004) and FIDE Trainer (2012). Chess career Aleksander Miśta is a multiple medalist of the Polish Junior Chess Championship: * Gold: 1991 (U10), 2000 (U18), 2001 (U18); * S ...

) in the open tournament in Rybnik and achieved the greatest success in his career, winning the bronze medal at the U18 World Junior Championships in Belfort. (after Julio Becerra Rivero, together with Jesse Kraai) in the open tournament in Coamo. In 2009, he achieved further successes, twice dividing the 1st place in open tournaments in Philadelphia (together with Alex Lenderman) and Indianapolis (together with Alex Lenderman, Sergey Kudrin, Alexei Jermoliński, Dmitry Gurevich and

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). In 2014, he shared the 1st place in Rethymno (together with Zbigniew Pakleza and

Alberto David Alberto David (born 26 March 1970) is a Luxembourgian-Italian chess grandmaster. He is a three-time Italian Chess Champion. Chess career David was born in Milan in 1970, and in 1974 moved with his parents to Luxembourg, where he learned to pla ...

) and Cologne (together with

Vadim Malakhatko Vadim Malakhatko ( uk, Вадим Малахатько; 22 March 1977 – 5 June 2023) was a Ukrainian (until 2007) and Belgian (from 2007) chess International Grandmaster, grandmaster. He was a member of the gold medal-winning Ukrainian team at ...

) and shared the 2nd place in Bratto (behind

Zbigniew Pakleza Zbigniew Pakleza (born 5 December 1986) is a Polish chess Grandmaster and a streamer. Chess career Zbigniew Pakleza is a multiple medalist of the Polish Junior Chess Championship: 2002 (U16) - silver, 2001 (U16) - bronze. He represented Poland ...

, together with

Evgeny Sveshnikov Evgeny Ellinovich Sveshnikov ( rus, Евгений Эллинович Све́шников; lv, Jevgēņijs Svešņikovs; 11 February 1950 – 18 August 2021) was a Russian chess player and writer. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FID ...

and Alberto David). In 2014, he shared the first place (together with Milos Perunović) in Berlin, and in 2015 he won the Khazar International Open tournament in Rashta. In addition to good results in the classic time control events, he is also very successful in solving chess problems. In this discipline, he won the title of European Junior Champion in 2005, and in 2006 he was ranked 3rd in Europe in the junior category and 6th in the world in the senior category. He was also a member of the Polish national team that won the bronze medal at the European Team Championships. He achieved another success in 2007, winning the title of European Junior Champion in

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. He achieved the highest ranking in his career so far on March 1, 2015, with a score of 2544 points, he was then ranked 19th among Polish chess players.

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* 1987 births Living people Chess grandmasters People from Wrocław Polish chess players 21st-century Polish people {{Chess-stub