Marcel Kanarek
Marcel Kanarek is a Polish chess grandmaster.
Biography
In his career, Marcel Kanarek has won five individual medals in Polish Youth Chess Championship: gold, three silver and bronze. He represented Poland many times in European Youth Chess Championships and World Youth Chess Championships, winning silver medals twice, in 2007 and 2011.Marcel Kanarek is a three-time medalist of the European Youth Team Chess Championship in U18 age group: twice gold and silver.
In 2007, Marcel Kanarek took third place in the international open chess tournaments played in Novi Sad, Mielno and twice in Koszalin. In 2009, he was awarded the 1st place in the Memorial of Józef Kochana in Koszalin. At the turn of 2011 and 2012, he won the round-robin tournament Comarch Cup in Kraków, while at the turn of 2014 and 2015 - he shared the first place in Kraków tournament Cracovia.
In 2010, Marcel Kanarek was awarded the FIDE International Master title and received the FIDE Grandmaster title five years later. He achieved the highest rating in his career so far on July 1, 2016, with a score of 2548 points, he was then ranked 20th among Polish chess players.