Tomasz Markowski (chess player)

Tomasz Markowski ( born July 30, 1975 in Glogów ) is a Polish chess master.

1993 Markowski qualified first for the Polish Championship in the same year and won both the Polish Rapid Chess Championship and the lightning. Since that time, he is among the leaders of the Polish players. 1998 FIDE awarded him the grandmaster title. Between 1993 and 2007 he took part in 14 times the national championship and earned eight medals: five gold medals (1993, 1998, 1999, 2003, 2007 ), once a silver (2000 ) and two bronze medals (1995 and 2002). He took to Poland between 1994 and 2002 for five consecutive Chess Olympiads and achieved 59.5 percent ( 17, -9, = 16). At the Olympic Games 2002 in Bled, he scored as a second Reservist an outstanding result: 7, -0, = 3 ( 85 percent). Three times he represented Poland at the European Team Championship. In 2000 he was third in the individual championship in Saint -Vincent. Other international successes include Tournament Win in Geneva in 1995 and 2000, and a shared second place at the Open Biel in 2001 and a third place behind Giovanni Vescovi and Pyotr Svidler in the strong tournament in Bermuda in 2003. At the European Championships in rapid chess in December 2007 in Warsaw, he finished second. In February 2008, he won the Palatine Open in Neustadt on the Wine Route with 7.5 points from 9 games.

Markowski Elo rating is 2585 (as of January 2008).