Tomasz Markowski (chess player)

Tomasz Markowski
Markowski in 2021
Country	Poland
Born	(1975-07-30) 30 July 1975 (age 46) Głogów, Poland
Title	Grandmaster (1998)
FIDE rating	2531 (February 2022)
Peak rating	2632 (September 2009)

Tomasz Markowski (born 30 July 1975) is a Polish chess Grandmaster.

Chess career[]

He won the Polish Chess Championship in 1993, 1998, 1999, 2003, and 2007. He also represented Poland five-times in Chess Olympiads.^[1] In 2000 he won a bronze medal at the European Individual Chess Championship in Saint-Vincent, Italy.^[2] Markowski won at Geneva (1995, 2000) and shared for fourth at the 2004 Aeroflot Open in Moscow.

Markowski was awarded the GM title in 1998.

Chess strength[]

According to Chessmetrics his best single performance was at POL-ch 60th Warsaw, 2003, where he scored 10,5 of 13 possible points (81%) against 2520-rated opposition, for a performance rating of 2700.^[3]

In September 2009, FIDE list his Elo rating is 2632. His peak rating was 2610 on the July and October 2003 rating lists.^[4] He has been in the top 100 players in the world twice. In July 2003 he was ranked 87th in the world, and on the October 2003 list he was 88th.^[5]

Notable games[]

• Tomasz Markowski vs Joel Lautier, 2nd IECC Playoff g/15 2001, King's Indian Attack: Double Fianchetto (A07), 1–0
• Ilya Smirin vs Tomasz Markowski, Aeroflot Open 2002, Sicilian Defense: Kan, Wing Attack Fianchetto Variation (B43), 0–1
• Tomasz Markowski vs Sergei Movsesian, Bermuda-A 2003, King's Indian Attack: Double Fianchetto (A07), 1–0
• Tomasz Markowski vs Lorenz Maximilian Drabke, 5th Individual European Chess Championship 2004, Formation: King's Indian Attack (A07), 1–0

References[]

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tomasz Markowski (chess player).

• Tomasz Markowski player profile and games at Chessgames.com
• Tomasz Markowski chess games at 365Chess.com
• Tomasz Markowski player profile at Chessmetrics