Jan-Krzysztof Duda is the winner of the World Chess Cup

Jan-Krzysztof Duda, a student at the Academy of Physical Education in Krakow, became the first Pole in history to win the World Chess Cup final. In the final, he defeated Sergey Karjakin, and earlier in the semi-finals of world champion Magnus Carlsen. Jan-Krzysztof Duda is from Wieliczka, he is 23 years old. He started playing chess at the age of 5. As a first-grader in elementary school, he won his first trophy - the Polish Cup among juniors under 8. In total, he won several dozen medals in a series of Polish championships in various age categories. In addition, it also boasts many international successes. He is the highest ranked Pole in the FIDE World Rankings in all categories. In 2013 he won the title of grandmaster, in 2017 he won an episode in the Polsat program "Brain - Brilliant Mind".

1. Jan-Krzysztof Duda, 2009, photo: Tomasz Tokarski

Born April 26, 1998 in Krakow. He was the long-awaited child of Wiesława and Adam, who lived to see him only after 13 years of marriage.

Jan-Krzysztof joined MKS MOS Wieliczka at the age of five. (which he represents to this day) and quickly became successful (1).

Many members of their family were or still are chess players. Veslava's sister Česlava Pilarska (née Groschot), currently a professor of economics - in 1991 she became the champion of Poland. Her brother Ryszard and his children (players of the Krakow Chess Club) also play chess.

In 2005 year Jan Krzysztof he won the Polish Preschool Championship in Suwałki and won the Polish Cup among juniors under 8. At the age of 8, he made his debut at the World Junior Championships in Georgia and entered the International Chess Federation's ranking list for the first time. Federation (FIDE). In subsequent years, he became the champion of Poland in the categories up to 10, 12 and - at the age of 14! - Eighteen years.

He also successfully participated in international competitions. He won titles among juniors - world champion under 10 years old, vice-champion under 12 years old, vice-champion and European champion under 14 years old, European team champion under 18 years old. At the age of 15, he completed the final grandmaster quota, and at the age of 16 he became a European medalist in blitz and a champion in rapid chess.

Duda is currently in her 6th year at the Academy of Physical Education in Krakow - “The university helps me a lot and contributes a lot to my success. I have an individual course of study, I can take courses with a very long delay. Sitting at the board for 7-XNUMX hours is not easy, so I keep fit. I run, I go to the gym, I swim, I ride a bike, but not as regularly as I would like.”

He was the first coach Andrzej Irlik, Another one - Leszek Ostrowski. He also collaborated with Kamil Miton i Jerzy Kostro. Irlik taught classes with him until 2009, but three years earlier, the international champion Leszek Ostrowski from Olecko worked in parallel with Duda.

Jan Krzysztof Duda is the highest-ranked Polish player in the FIDE World Rankings in all categories (classic, rapid and blitz chess) and has broken the barrier of 2800 ELO points in the rapid and blitz chess category. In online games, the Polish grandmaster plays under the nickname Polish_fighter3000.

The best chess player in the world in recent years, and according to many in the entire history of chess, is a four-time world champion in classical chess, three-time speed and five-time blitz (2). Leading the ranking lists for many years, currently ranked 2847 (August 2021). In May 2014, his rating was 2882 points - the highest in the history of chess.

2. Jan-Krzysztof Duda vs Magnus Carlsen,

photo from the archive of Jan Krzysztof Duda

On May 20, 2020, at the Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge, Jan-Krzysztof Duda defeated Magnus Carlsen in rapid, and on October 10, 2020, at the Altibox Norway Chess tournament in Stavanger, he defeated the world champion, breaking his streak of 125 classic games without defeat.

world cup tournament was played in one of the sports and recreation complexes of the mountain resort Krasna Polyana, 40 kilometers from Sochi. It was attended by 206 contestants and 103 contestants, including five Poles and Poles. Players played matches according to the knockout system. The matches consisted of two classical games, in case of a draw on the third day extra time was played in reduced playing time. The prize fund was $1 in the open tournament and $892 in the women's tournament.

Jan-Krzysztof Duda said goodbye in the first round, in the second he defeated Guilherme Vasquez (Paraguay) 1,5:0,5, in the third round he defeated Samvel Sevian (USA) 1,5:0,5, in the fourth round he defeated Idani Poya ( Iran) 1,5:0,5, in the fifth round he defeated Alexander Grischuk (Russia) 2,5:1,5, in the sixth round he defeated Vidita Gujrati (India) 1,5:0,5, and in the semi-finals he defeated the champion world with Magnus Carlsen (Norway) 2,5:1,5.

Victory with Magnus Carlsen secured the promotion of the Polish grandmaster to the Candidates Tournament (also known as the Candidates Tournament) from which an opponent for the World Champion would be chosen. The chess duel with Carlsen was played at the highest sporting level. In the second game of extra time, Duda defeated the chess Mozart playing black. It should be emphasized that our representative had a very good opening preparation by the coach - grandmaster Kamil Miton.

Magnus Carlsen - Jan-Krzysztof Duda, FIDE World Cup 2021, Sochi, 3.08.2021/XNUMX/XNUMX, second game of extra time

Results of the 2021 World Cup in the last four rounds

1. e4 c5 2. Sf3 d6 3. Gb5+ Gd7 4. G:d7+ H:d7 5. O-O Sf6 6. He2 Sc6 7. c3 e6 8. d4 c:d4 9. c:d4 d5 10. e5 Se4 11. Sbd2 S:d2 12. G:d2 Gb4 13. Gf4 O-O 14. Hd3 Ge7 15. a3 Wac8 16. g3 Sa5 17. b3 Hc6 18. Gd2 Hb6 19. Wfb1 a6 20. Kg2 Sc6 21. We1 Hb5 22. Hb1 Wc7 

3. Magnus Carlsen – Jan-Krzysztof Duda, position after 25… a4

4. Magnus Carlsen - Jan-Krzysztof Duda, position after 47. Wd2

23. h4 Rfc8 24. Ra2 a5 25. Rh1 a4 (diagram 3) 26. b4 (26. Rb2 was better) 26 ... h6 27. Be3 (27. g4 Ra7 28. h5 was better, Black got a good position) 27 ... Sa7 28. Gd2 He2 29. We1 Hc4 30. We3 Nb5 31. Wd3 Rc6 32. Wb2 Gd8 33. g4 Bb6 34. Ge3 Sc3 35. Hf1 Hb5 36. Wc2 N4 37. W: c6 W: c6 38. Wd1 Wc4 39 Nd2 W: d2 40. W: d2 Qc6 41. He2 Rc3 42. Ra2 Gd8 (a very good move by the Polish grandmaster) 43. g5 h: g5 44. h: g5 Qc4 45. B: c4 d: c4 46. d5 e : d5 47. Wd2 (diagram 4) 47… Wd3 (47 was better… W: a3 48. W: d5 Wd3 with a much better position for Black) 48. W: d3 c: d3 49 f4 Kf8 50. Kf3 Ke7 51. Bc5 + Ke6 52. Ke3 Kf5 53. K: d3 g6 54. Ke3 Gc7 55. b5 Gd8 56. Kd4 Gb6 + 57. Kd3 Gd8 58. Kd4 Ge7 59. Gc1 Ke6 60. Gb2 Gd8 61. Kc5 Ga5 (diagram 5, now Carlsen should play 62. Bd4 Bc7 63. Bc3 with equal position) 62. Bc1? Bc3 63. b6 d4 64. Kc4 Kd7 65. Ne3 Nb2 66. W: d4 G: a3 67. Ne3 Nb2 68. Kb4 a3 69. Kb3 Ke6 70. Ka2 Kd5 71. Kb3 Ke4 72. Kd2 Dd4 73. K: a3 G:b6 74. Kb4 Gf2 0-1 (diagram 6).

5. Magnus Carlsen – Jan-Krzysztof Duda, position after 61… Ga5

6. Magnus Carlsen - Jan-Krzysztof Duda, the final position in which the Norwegian resigned the game

In the final, 23-year-old Jan-Krzysztof Duda met with a representative of the hosts eight years older (born in Simferopol on the Crimean peninsula, he represented Ukraine until December 2009, then changed his citizenship to Russian). In 2002, Karjakin became the youngest chess player in the history of chess to be awarded the title of Grandmaster by the International Chess Federation (FIDE). He was then 12 years and 7 months old. In 2016, he was Carlsen's opponent in the world championship match. In New York, the Norwegian defended the title, winning 9:7.

In the second game with White, Duda turned out to be better than his favorite opponent (the first game ended in a draw). He prepared a great debut with his coach Kamil Miton and surprised his opponent. The Russian - playing on "his" site, considered himself defeated after 30 moves (7). Jan-Krzysztof Duda's victory at the World Championship and entry into the Candidates Tournament is the greatest success in the post-war history of Polish chess. In the match for third place at the 2021 World Cup, Magnus Carlsen defeated Vladimir Fedoseev.

7. Jan-Krzysztof Duda in the winning game against Sergey Karjakin, photo: David Llada/FIDE

Jan-Krzysztof Duda vs Sergey Karjakin, FIDE World Cup 2021, Sochi, 5.08.2021, second game of the final

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 c5 5. c: d5 (diagram 8) 5… c: d4 (Karjakin chooses a much less common variation. The most commonly played is 5… N: d5 6 .e4 N :c3 7.b:c3

c:d4 8. c:d4 Gb4+ 9. Gd2 G:d2+ 10. H:d2) 6. H:d4 e:d5 7. Gg5 Ge7 8. e3 OO 

9. Rd1 (more often 9.Ge2, with a plan to castle short)

9… Sc6 10. Ha4 Ge6 11. Gb5 Hb6 12. G: f6 G: f6 13. S: d5 G: d5 14. W: d5 G: b2 (diagram 9) 15. Ke2 (pole instead of 15. 0- 0 boldly leaves the king in the center) 15… Bf6 16.

8. Jan-Krzysztof Duda - Sergey Karjakin, position after 5th c: d5

9. Jan-Krzysztof Duda – Sergey Karjakin, position after 14…G:b2

Whd1 Wac8 17. Bc4 Qb4 18. Qb3 (diagram 10) 18… Q: b3 (for Karjakin it would be better to play 18… Q7 19. Rd7 Qe8, and then the Pole should play 20. Qb5, because after a possible 20. Q: b7 ? would be 20… Ra5) 19. W: b3 Nb8 (so that the rook does not reach Black's seventh rank) 20. g4 h6 21. h4 g6 22. g5 h: g5 23. h: g5 Ne7 24. Re5 Nc6 25. Rd7 ( diagram 11) 25… Bd8 (After 25… Q: e5 it would be 26. N: e5 W: g5 27. W: g6) 26. Rb5 Ra5? 27. Bd5 (even better was 27. W: d8 Rc: d8 28. W: a5)

27… Rc7 28. B: f7 + Kg7 29. W: c7 Bc7 30. Bd5 1-0 (diagram 12, Karjakin resigned with Black and congratulated the World Championship winner).

10. Jan-Krzysztof Duda - Sergey Karjakin, position after 18.Qb3

11. Jan-Krzysztof Duda - Sergey Karjakin, position after 25. Wd7

12. Jan-Krzysztof Duda - Sergey Karjakin, final position, 1-0

History of the World Cup

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As of 2005, the World Championship was played in a 128-player format with 7 "minimal" rounds, each consisting of 2 games, followed by a series of fast overtimes and then, if necessary, instant overtime. In 2021, 206 players participated.

The winner of the 2005 World Cup was Levon Aronian (13), an Armenian chess player who has represented the United States since 2021.

13. Levon Aronian, winner of the 2005 and 2017 World Chess Cup, photo: Eteri Kublashvili

14. Winner of the 2021 World Cup, Facebook source Jan-Krzysztof Duda

World Chess Championship match

World Chess Championship Match was held from November 24 to December 16, 2021 in Dubai (United Arab Emirates) as part of the Expo world exhibition. The opponent of the reigning world champion Norwegian Magnus Carlsen (16) was the Russian Yan Alexandrovich Nepomnyashchiy (17), who won the Candidates Tournament. The games started in 2020 and ended in April 2021 due to the global pandemic.

As for the world leaders, the balance of the games between the Russian and the Norwegian is very good. Both players were born in 1990 and in 2002-2003 played each other three times in youth competitions, of which the Russian won twice. In addition, Nepomniachtchi won with the current world champion in 2011 (during the Tata Steel tournament) and in 2017 (London Chess Classic). The overall score between the gentlemen in the classical games is +4-1=6 in favor of the Russian.

16. World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen, source:

17. Yan Alexandrovich Nepomniachtchi - winner of the Candidates Tournament, source:

In his opening, Nepomniachtchi usually starts with 1.e4 (only sometimes with 1.c4). Black against 1.e4 usually chooses the Sicilian defense 1…c5 (sometimes the French defense 1..e6). Against 1.d4 he most often chooses the Grunfeld Defense 1… Nf6 2.c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5

The prize pool was $2 million, of which 60 percent went to the winners and 40 percent to the losers. The match was originally supposed to start on December 20, 2020, but was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic to November 24 - December 16, 2021 in Dubai.

The next Candidates Tournament in 2022 will feature eight players, including Jan-Krzysztof Duda and Magnus Carlsen – Jan Nepomniachtchi, who lost the 2021 world title match.