Robert Kempiński

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}} {{short description|Polish chess grandmaster (born 1977)}} {{Infobox chess player |name = Robert Kempiński |image = 2021-Robert-Kempinski (cropped).JPG |caption = Kempiński in 2021 |country = Poland |birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1977|7|11|df=y}} |birth_place = Gdańsk, Poland |death_date = |death_place = |title = Grandmaster (1996) |peakrating = 2652 (April 2015) |peakranking = No. 79 (January 2005) |FideID = 1105663 }}

'''Robert Kempiński''' (born 11 July 1977) is a Polish chess Grandmaster. He is a two-time Polish Chess Champion.

== Career == Kempiński entered his first tournament at the local chess club aged 7 and won easily.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.ichess.net/2011/10/24/robert-kempinski-vs-evgeny-gleizrov/|title=Robert Kempinski vs Evgeny Gleizrov – How to be a Grandmaster Series|date=24 October 2011|work=iChess.net|access-date=7 December 2017}}</ref> At the age of 14 he won the Polish junior championship in his age category, and the year after that he won the Polish junior championship for U20. In the following years he represented Poland in international competitions. He won the European Youth Chess Championship three times: 1993 (U16), 1994 (U18) and 1995 (U18). In 1995 he also won the world title in the World Youth Chess Championship in Guarapuava (Brazil), ahead of Emil Sutovsky. The following year he was awarded the grandmaster title and participated in his first Chess Olympiad, and has since then participated in six chess olympiads 1996–2006, with a 52.1% overall performance.<ref>[http://www.olimpbase.org/players/htbfltnh.html OlimpBase: Men's Chess Olympiads: Robert Kempiński]</ref> He won the Polish Chess Championship in 1997 and 2001.

International tournament victories include: Zlín (1994), České Budějovice (1995), Lippstadt (1995), Frýdek-Místek (1997), Biel/Bienne (2000),<ref>:de:Robert Kempiński</ref> Rubinstein Memorial (2006),<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://ratings.fide.com/tournament_report.phtml?event16=4321 |title=FIDE Archive – Tournament report October 2006 |access-date=4 June 2009 |archive-date=1 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181001163145/http://ratings.fide.com/tournament_report.phtml?event16=4321 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Bad Zwesten (2004)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://ratings.fide.com/tournament_report.phtml?event16=37159 |title=FIDE Archive – Tournament report April 2004 |access-date=4 June 2009 |archive-date=10 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180510183850/http://ratings.fide.com/tournament_report.phtml?event16=37159 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Neckar-Open (Deizisau, 2005),<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://ratings.fide.com/tournament_report.phtml?event16=31181 |title=FIDE Archive – Tournament report July 2005 |access-date=4 June 2009 |archive-date=10 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180510115418/http://ratings.fide.com/tournament_report.phtml?event16=31181 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Porzellan-Cup (Dresden, 2008).<ref>[http://www.chessbase.de/nachrichten.asp?newsid=7356 Schach Nachrichten]</ref> He participated in the FIDE World Chess Championship 2004, but was knocked out in the first round against Alexander Lastin.<ref>[http://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/a3a4$wix.htm World Chess Championship: 2004 FIDE Knockout Matches]</ref> In August 2010 he finished 6th in the large rapid Open tournament played in Mainz; American Gata Kamsky won the event.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=6593|title=Chess Classic Mainz – Kamsky wins with 10.0/11 points|date=10 August 2010}}</ref>

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kempinski, Robert}} Category:1977 births Category:Living people Category:Sportspeople from Gdańsk Category:Polish chess players Category:Chess Grandmasters Category:World Youth Chess Champions Category:Chess Olympiad competitors