GMRadoslaw Wojtaszek

Radoslaw Wojtaszek was born in Elbląg in 1987. He won both the European and world under-eighteen championships in 2004. The following year he became a grandmaster and won his first Polish senior championship. He made his Olympiad debut in 2006, scoring nine points from eleven games. In 2008 he won the European Rapid Championship in Warsaw. He also became a member of Viswanathan Anand's world-championship team, helping prepare for matches from 2008 through 2014. His own tournament successes included the Najdorf Memorial in 2009 and the György Marx Memorial in 2011. At the 2015 Tata Steel Masters, he defeated both Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana. He won Dortmund in 2017 without losing a game. In 2018 he won the Isle of Man International after a playoff against Arkadij Naiditsch. He won the combined classical, rapid and blitz competition at Biel in 2020. Another Polish championship followed in 2024. Wojtaszek is married to fellow international master Alina Kashlinskaya.