GMJakub Seemann

Jakub Seemann developed an interest in chess through games with his cousins. His father, Rafał, supported his training and travelled with him to competitions. As a schoolboy he combined chess with studies in mathematics, physics and computing. He won world under-fourteen silver in 2022. That year, while fourteen, he also won Poland's under-eighteen rapid championship. In 2023 he became an international master and won the World Under-16 Championship with nine and a half points from eleven games. He completed his final grandmaster norm at the Dole Trophy Pasino Grand Aix tournament in July 2025. A last-round draw with Pavel Eljanov secured the norm. FIDE awarded him the grandmaster title that year. In October 2025 he shared the highest score at the World Under-18 Championship, finishing fourth on tiebreak.