Szymon Gumularz
Szymon Gumularz is a Polish chess grandmaster.
Biography
Szymon Gumularz made his chess debut at the 2013 European Youth Chess Championship in Budva, where he finished 20th. He won medals of the Polish Youth Chess Championships three times: gold in Wałbrzych in 2013, bronze in Suwałki in 2015 and gold in Ustroń in 2017.Szymon Gumularz was also a seven-time medalist of the Polish Youth Rapid Chess Championships and a six-time medalist of the Polish Youth Blitz Chess Championships.
Szymon Gumularz represented Poland at European Youth Chess Championships and World Youth Chess Championships in various age groups, achieving the best result in 2017 in Montevideo – 3rd place in World Youth Chess Championship in U16 age group.
Szymon Gumularz won the International chess tournaments four times: 2014 in Góra Świętej Anny, 2017 in Mariánské Lázně, 2018 in Kraków, together with Christopher Repka and Evgeny Romanov and 2019 in Krakow.
Since 2019, Szymon Gumularz has regularly participated in the finals of the Polish Chess Championships. He achieved the best result in 2023, when he won 3rd place. In May 2024, in Rzeszów he ranked in 7th place in Polish Chess Championship.
In 2018, Szymon Gumularz was awarded the FIDE International Master title and received the FIDE Grandmaster title three years later. He reached the highest rating in his career so far on June 1, 2023, with a score of 2591 points.