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Piotr Murdzia

Piotr Murdzia, Kołobrzeg 2006

Piotr Murdzia (born 20 February 1975 in Gdańsk) is a Polish chess International Master (IM), International Solving Grandmaster and seven-time World Chess Solving Champion.

He was awarded the IM title by FIDE in 1994. He won tournaments in Świdnica (1998) and Legnica (2003) making two grandmaster's norms.

He is known as one of the best chess problem solvers in the world. He has won the World Chess Solving Championship seven times (2002, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2013) and placed second four times (2001, 2004, 2010, 2014). He also won the gold medal seven times in the team event of the same competition (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015). Murdzia also won seven times the European Chess Solving Championship (2006, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2012, 2013, 2014) and four times its team competition (2009, 2013, 2014, 2015).

In the solvers' rating list of WFCC of October 2015, he is third with 2742 points.

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