A player of Hetman GKS Katowice Patryk Cieślak won the world chess championship and managed to beat the grandmaster. The chess championship in Florianopolis was a record-breaker for the Polish team.

A 14-year-old Patryk Cieślak, a player of the Hetman GKS Katowice chess club, won the world chess champion title in an under-14 competition in Florianopolis, Brazil.

The recent competition in Brazil was a record-breaking one for the Polish team. Patryk Cieślak’s club mate Jan Klimkowski won the bronze medal in the U-18 category. Another player – Krzysztof Raczek (player at Gwiazd Bydgoszcz) won a silver medal in the U-16 category, and Wiktoria Śmietańska also took silver in the U-14.

Patryk became known in the chess world some two years ago when he won the gold medal at the European U-12 Chess Championship in Turkey. A year later, he defeated the Brazilian grandmaster Alexander Fiera at the Reykjavik Open tournament. 

Poles have marked their leader profile in the chess world in recent years especially because of their junior and youth players. 

Last year Jakub Seemann won the U-16 world championship. Jan Klimkowski won silver in another competition in Italy.

Today, chess has become an increasingly popular sport in Poland, thanks to players like Jan-Krzysztof Duda, and other Polish young talents. 

Photo: X@FIDE_chess

Source: Onet

Tomasz Modrzejewski