POLAND

Born 13 January 1987, FIDE rating: 2745 (April 2017)

Wojtaszek won the Polish Chess Championship three time.

In 2009 Wojtaszek shared second with Michael Roiz at the international tournament in Lublin and won the Najdorf memorial played in Warsaw.

Wojtaszek won the 5th International Tournament of Polonia Wrocław played between the end of June and beginning of July 2010. In June 2011 he won the 9th Gyorgy Marx Memorial in Paks, Hungary. 

He has been one of the four seconds to world chess champion Viswanathan Anand since his successful title defense match against Vladimir Kramnik in 2008, also assisting him in defending his title in 2010 against Veselin Topalov and in 2012 against Boris Gelfand.