| Grzegorz Gajewski | |
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 Gajewski during the Polish Chess Championship in 2021 | |
| Country | Poland |
| Born | 19 July 1985 Skierniewice, Poland |
| Title | Grandmaster (2006) |
| FIDE rating | 2548 (April 2024) |
| Peak rating | 2659 (July 2014) |
| Peak ranking | No. 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.
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). He has been working with D. Gukesh as his second since 2023, and helped him win Candidates Tournament 2024 where Gukesh won and became the youngest World Chess Championship Challenger. [9]
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