GMJan-Krzysztof Duda

Jan-Krzysztof Duda was born in Kraków in 1998. He won the world under-ten championship in 2008 and the European under-fourteen title in 2012. He became an international master in 2012 and a grandmaster in 2013, aged fifteen. In 2014 he won the European Rapid Championship and made his Olympiad debut for Poland. He earned world junior silver in 2015. His first Polish senior championship followed in 2018. He also won world blitz silver that year. In 2020 he defeated Magnus Carlsen at Norway Chess, ending the world champion's 125-game unbeaten classical streak. Duda won the 2021 World Cup. He eliminated Carlsen in the semifinal and defeated Sergey Karjakin in the final. That victory qualified him for the 2022 Candidates Tournament. He added another world blitz silver medal in 2021. In 2022 he won the Oslo Esports Cup and Warsaw's Superbet Rapid & Blitz. Away from tournaments, he graduated from Kraków's University School of Physical Education in 2020.