Tomasz Markowski (chess Player)
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Tomasz Markowski (born 30 July 1975) is a Polish
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Grandmaster.


Chess career

He won 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 1993, 1998, 1999, 2003, and 2007. He also represented Poland five-times in
Chess Olympiad The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams representing nations of the world compete. FIDE organises the tournament and selects the host nation. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, FIDE held an Online Chess Olympiad in FIDE Onli ...
s. In 2000 he won a bronze medal at the
European Individual Chess Championship The European Individual Chess Championship is a chess tournament organised by the European Chess Union. It was established in 2000 and has since then taken place on a yearly basis. Apart from determining the European champions (open and women's) ...
in Saint-Vincent, Italy. Markowski won at Geneva (1995, 2000) and shared for fourth at the 2004
Aeroflot Open The Aeroflot Open is an annual open chess tournament organised through the joint efforts of the Chess Federation of Russia and the Russian Ministry of Sport with the sponsorship from the Russian flag carrier, Aeroflot. It is played in Moscow, ho ...
in Moscow. Markowski was awarded the GM title in 1998.


Chess strength

According to
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his best single performance was at POL-ch 60th Warsaw, 2003, where he scored 10,5 of 13 possible points (81%) against 2520-rated opposition, for a
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of 2700. He was in the world top 100 list twice successively in July and October 2003 at rank 87 and 88, respectively, with a rating of 2610.


Notable games


Tomasz Markowski vs Joel Lautier, 2nd IECC Playoff g/15 2001, King's Indian Attack: Double Fianchetto (A07), 1–0Ilya Smirin vs Tomasz Markowski, Aeroflot Open 2002, Sicilian Defense: Kan, Wing Attack Fianchetto Variation (B43), 0–1Tomasz Markowski vs Sergei Movsesian, Bermuda-A 2003, King's Indian Attack: Double Fianchetto (A07), 1–0Tomasz Markowski vs Lorenz Maximilian Drabke, 5th Individual European Chess Championship 2004, Formation: King's Indian Attack (A07), 1–0


References


External links

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Tomasz Markowski
player profile at
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Markowski, Tomasz 1975 births Living people People from Głogów Chess Grandmasters Polish chess players Sportspeople from Lower Silesian Voivodeship Chess Olympiad competitors