Radosław Jedynak (born 9 June 1982) is a Polish

chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to dist ...

Grandmaster (2006) and President of Polish Chess Federation.

Chess career

Jedynak is a multiple medalist of the Polish Junior Chess Championship: gold in 1994 (U12), silver in 1993 (U12), bronze in 1996 (U14). In 1994, he participated at the

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(U12), in which shared third place together with the later

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Ruslan Ponomariov Ruslan Olehovych Ponomariov ( uk, Русла́н Оле́гович Пономарьо́в; born 11 October 1983) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster. He was FIDE World Chess Champion from 2002 to 2004. He won the Ukrainian Chess Championship i ...

. From 1999 to 2005, education interrupted Jedynak's participation in chess tournaments. In 2005, he returned to the chess tournament's and soon completed Grandmaster title norm. He won outright or shared first place in the following international events:

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(2002),

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(2003),

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(2006),

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(2006), Montpellier (2006),

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(2007),

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(2007), Málaga Open (2008),

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(2009) and

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(2012). Jedynak has also competed successfully in several Polish Team Chess Championships (team bronze in 2003, individual silver in 2008) and Czech Chess Extraliga tournaments (team bronze in 2007, 2012).OlimpBase :: Czech Chess Extraliga :: Radosław Jedynak
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Personal life

In 2005, Jedynak graduated from the Faculty of Journalism and Political Science

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