Grzegorz Gajewski

Grzegorz Gajewski
Gajewski during the Polish Chess Championship in 2021
CountryPoland
Born (1985-07-19) 19 July 1985 (age 39)
Skierniewice, Poland
TitleGrandmaster (2006)
FIDE rating2547 (December 2024)
Peak rating2659 (July 2014)
Peak rankingNo. 86 (July 2014)

Grzegorz Gajewski (born 19 July 1985) is a Polish chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2006.

Chess career

In 2011, Gajewski won the Cappelle-la-Grande Open.[1] In 2012 he won the 14th Open International de Sants, Hostafrancs i La Bordeta in Barcelona edging out Aleksandr Rakhmanov, Emilio Cordova, Kevin Spraggett and Samuel Shankland on tiebreak score, after all players scored 8 points from 10 games.[2][3] Gajewski won the Polish Chess Championship in 2015.[4]

Gajewski played for the Polish team in the Chess Olympiads of 2008 in Dresden, where he played on the fourth board scoring 6½ points from 10 games, and 2014 in Tromsø.[5] He also took part in the European Team Chess Championship in 2007, 2009, 2013 and 2015; Gajewski won the individual silver medal on board three in 2007.[6]

He was a second to Viswanathan Anand in the World Chess Championship 2014, held in Sochi, Russia, and has worked as his second during several events since then.[7] A strong opening theoretician, Gajewski is probably most known in the chess world by the gambit move 10...d5!? in the Ruy Lopez opening which he introduced in July 2007 during a tournament in Pardubice.[8]

Since the pandemic, he has been working with some of India's sharpest chess players at Westbridge Anand Chess Academy (WACA). Since 2023, he has been working as Gukesh Dommaraju's second, assisting him in winning the 2024 Candidates Tournament, where Gukesh became the youngest challenger in the history of the World Chess Championship.[9] He was also Gukesh's main trainer when he won the 2024 FIDE World Chess Championship against Ding Liren.

References

  1. ^ "Grzegorz Gajewski wins Cappelle La Grande 2011". Chessdom. Retrieved 8 March 2011.
  2. ^ "Grzegorz Gaweski ha ganado el Abierto de Sants 2012" (in Spanish). Chessdom. 29 August 2012. Retrieved 26 December 2015.
  3. ^ XIV Open Internacional de Sants, Hostafrancs i la Bordeta - Grup A. chess-results.com.
  4. ^ "Polish championships 2015". Europeran Chess Union. 21 April 2015. Retrieved 14 November 2015.
  5. ^ Men's Chess Olympiads - Grzegorz Gajewski. OlimpBase.
  6. ^ European Men's team Chess Championship - Grzegorz Gajewski. OlimpBase.
  7. ^ Doggers, Peter (26 July 2016). "Anand's Second Grabs Spotlight: Gajewski Wins Najdorf Memorial". Chess.com. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
  8. ^ Brunello, Sabino (2009). Attacking the Spanish. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-906552-1-76.
  9. ^ Round 14 FIDE Candidates & Women's Candidates on YouTube
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