Kacper Drozdowski (born 14 May 1996) is a Polish

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player who holds the title of

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Biography

Kacper Drozdowski learned to play chess at the age of five. He participated in the Polish Youth Chess Championships in different age groups, which have won five medals: three gold (in 2006 in U10 age group, in 2010 in U14 age group, in 2011 in U16 age group), silver (in 2012 in U18 age group) and bronze (in 2009 in U14 age group). In 2010, he won bronze medal with

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chess club ''JKSz MCKiS'' in Polish Youth Team Chess Championship. Kacper Drozdowski has successfully participated in Polish Youth Championships in blitz and

fast chess Fast chess, also known as Speed chess, is a type of chess in which each player is given less time to consider their moves than normal tournament time controls allow. Fast chess is subdivided, by decreasing time controls, into rapid chess, blitz ...

. He is four-time Polish Youth Fast Chess Champion (in 2008 in U12 age group with time control 15 and 30 minutes for game, in 2011 in U16 age group, in 2014 in U18 age group). In 2007, Kacper Drozdowski won Netherlands Open Youth Chess Championship. In 2012, in

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he won

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in U16 age group. In 2013, he debuted in the final 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 subsequ ...

. In February 2014, in

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Kacper Drozdowski shared 1st place in International Chess Tournament ''First Saturday''. Kacper Drozdowski three times played for Poland in European Boys' U18 Team Chess Championship (2012-2014), where he won 2 gold (2012, 2013) and silver (2014) medals in team competition, and won silver (2012) and bronze (2014) medals in individual competition. In 2013, he was awarded the FIDE International Master (IM) title. In May 2018, Kacper Drozdowski graduated with bachelor's degree in Information Technology and System at the

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. In 2018-2019 he was president of the Chess Club at The University of Texas at Dallas.

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Kacper Drozdowski
chess games at 365chess.com 1996 births Living people Sportspeople from Toruń Polish chess players Chess International Masters University of Texas at Dallas alumni {{Poland-chess-bio-stub