title: Piotr Murdzia
text: # Piotr Murdzia
  
  Piotr Murdzia (born 20 February 1975, in Gdańsk) is a Polish chess International Master, International Solving Grandmaster, and eight-time world champion in chess problem solving. He is known as one of the best chess problem solvers in the world.
  
  ## Chess career
  
  He was awarded the IM title by FIDE in 1994. He won tournaments in Świdnica (1998) and Legnica (2003) making two grandmaster's norms.
  
  He has won the World Chess Solving Championship eight times (2002, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2018) and placed second four times (2001, 2004, 2010, 2014). He also won the gold medal seven times in the team event of the same competition (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015). Murdzia also won eight times the European Chess Solving Championship (2006, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016) and four times its team competition (2009, 2013, 2014, 2015).
  
  In the solvers' rating list of WFCC of April 2016, he is third with 2717 points.
  
  