Piotr Murdzia
Piotr Murdzia ( born February 20, 1975 in Gdańsk ) is a Polish chess player and world champion in solving chess problems.
Solving chess problems
World Championships
Murdzia was guided to Marcin Banaszek for chess composition. He is a six-time world champion in solving chess problems. For the first time at the World Championships in 1991, he took part in Rotterdam, finishing in tenth place. 2001 in Wageningen, he became Vice World Champion. His first World Championship title he won in 2002 in Portorož. 2004 in Kallithea (Chalkidiki ), he was second again. His second world title he won in 2005 in Eretria, his third in 2006 in Wageningen. 2007 in Rhodes, he was World Cup Third, 2008 in Jurmala, he won for the fourth time. 2009 and 2012 he was the fifth and sixth time to win the world title. With the Polish national team he won at the World Championships 2001 in Wageningen, the third, 2006 in Wageningen the second and 2008 in Jurmala back to third place. From 2009 to 2012, the Polish national team won the title four times in a row.
European Championships
Four times he took part in the European Championships. 2005 in Legnica he became vice European champion. 2006 in Warsaw, he was able to win the title. 2007 Pardubice he finished third. 2008 in Antalya, he was European champion again. With the Polish national team, he finished 2007 in Pardubice third place.
Championships
So-called Solving shows he won in 1998 in Saint Petersburg and in 2000 in Pula. From the Permanent Commission of the FIDE for Chess Compositions (PCC ) organized open tournaments he won in 2000 in Pula and 2002 in Portorož. He participated in many open national championships. He won the Open Championship of Germany ( Stein near Nuremberg in 2002, Rose Garden Sottorf 2006 Aalen- cooking 2009), the Netherlands ( Nunspeet 2000), Serbia and Montenegro (2004, Belgrade 2005), Slovakia (Bratislava 2001 Komárno 2003 Bratislava 2004 Bratislava 2005 Šaľa 2006), Czech Republic ( Prague 2000, Prague 2001, Havířov 2003, 2004 Prague, Brno 2005) and the United Kingdom ( 2005 Oakham, Oakham 2007, Oakham 2008). He also won the first Grand Prix 2003 in Warsaw Open 2004 in Serock, Poland and Belgrade Open 2005 in Belgrade and Gdynia. 2006 Jadwisin, Poland and Pardubice. The Polish Individual Championship in solving chess problems he won in 18 appearances 14 times: 1992 and 1993 in Warsaw, in 1997 and 1998 in Serock, 1999, 2000 and 2001 in Sokołów Podlaski, 2002 in Warsaw, 2003, Wroclaw, 2004 Jadwisin in Serock, 2005 in Gdynia, 2006 at Jadwisin Serock, 2008 in Gniezno and 2009 in Serock. At the 2007 Championship in Krynica -Zdrój he did not participate.
Title and rating
Since 2002, he has the title of a Grand Master in solving chess problems. His current rating number is 2767 (as of July 1, 2012), so it is on the first place of the PCCC world rankings. His previous highest Elo rating in solving chess problems was 2860, this is at a distance of 41 points on Georgi Ewsejew the highest Elo rating, which has been achieved in this discipline by a solver.
Murdzias wife also solves chess compositions.
Tournament chess
1991 and 1995 he won the Polish Individual Championship U20, 1993, he occupied at the Polish U18 championship in second place.
Polish Junior Team Champion, he was with Gedania Gdansk 1990, 1991, 1992 and 1993, now he plays for SKF Korsarz Gdynia In Germany he played in the 2nd team of the Hamburg SK, since the 2004/ 05 season in the first team of the SV Griesheim. In the Czech Republic, he played for TZ Třinec, later Slavoj Ostrava- Poruba.
Since 1994, he has the title of International Master. Grandmaster standards he set in 1998 at an open in Świdnica and 2003 in a round robin tournament in Legnica. His current Elo rating in chess tournament is 2471 (as of October 2012), so it is on the 37th place in the Polish Elo ranking. His previous highest Elo rating was 2485 in January 2010.