Aged based tournaments:

In 2001, Wojtaszek won the Polish U14 championship. In 2002, he was =1st (2nd on tiebreak) with Zbigniew Pakleza in the Polish Boys U16 championship in Bartkowa, and equal first (2nd on tiebreak) with Krzysztof Jakubowski in the Polish U20 championship later that year. In 2003, he came equal first (2nd on countback) to Grzegorz Gajewski at the Polish U18 championship, and finished the year with second behind Mateusz Bartel in the U18 European Championship. In 2004, he won the Polish U20 championship with 8/11, 1.5 points clear of the field, and <then> won the Polish U18 championship with 9.5/11, a point clear of the field. In 2005, He won the Polish U20 championship.

Wojtaszek came =3rd with 7/10 in the 2001 World U14 championship. He was runner up to Levan Pantsulaia in the World U16 championship in 2002, and scored 7.5/13 in the World Junior at the end of that year. In 2003, he came =4th with 8/11 at the World U16 Championship in Greece in 2003. In 2004, he was 5th in the European U18 championship before winning the 2004 U-18 World Youth Chess Championship and coming 4th in the World Junior Championship in Cochin, India. In 2005, he was =1st (second on countback) with Ildar Khairullin at the U18 world championship at Belfort.

Classical Tournaments:

Wojtaszek’s first serious result in International chess came at the 38th Akiba Rubinstein Open in July 2001, when he scored 7/10, one point behind the joint leaders, although he did well to score 5.5/9 at the Jantar Baltyku Open. Shortly afterwards he took first place with 8/11 at the Prerov 2001 IM tournament in the Czech Republic. In 2002, he finished the year with a strong showing at the Cracovia Open, scoring 6/9, a point behind the joint leaders. In 2004, he came 4th in the Friendship Grandmaster Tournament in the Czech Republic, =3rd in the XIII International Chess Festival Open (B) in Poznan and won the Cracovia Open with 7.5/9. In 2005, he won both the Polish U20 championship and the powerful Polish Chess Championship in 2005 with 9.5/13, ahead of Bartosz Socko. He competed strongly in the 6th European Individual Championship (2005) scoring 8/13. In 2006, he came 2nd to Bartel at the Polish Championship, then came =1st with Peter Heine Nielsen at the International Open at Kalamaria-Thessaloniki in Greece and =1st with Borki Predojevic and Koneru Humpy at the Young Masters match tournament in Switzerland. In 2007, he came 4th in the Polish championship. In 2008, he was =1st at the Rilton Cup in Sweden, and won the Cracovia Open 2008 with 7.5/9. In 2009 Wojtaszek was again =1st in the Rilton Cup, =1st at the 66 Final Indywidualnych Mistrzostw Polski Mezczyzn in Poland, finished second in the Polish championship, shared second with Michael Roiz at the international tournament in Lublin behind Boris Grachev and won the Najdorf Memorial (2009) in Warsaw with 6/9. He also won the Mazovian Chess Festival -Open A in Poland, with 6/9.

In 2010, Wojtaszek was =1st-5th with at the 39th Rilton Cup in Stockholm, finished second in the Polish championship, won the 5th International Tournament of Polonia Wrocław and won the 4th San Juan International tournament in Pamplona with 6.5/9 on tiebreak from Laurent Fressinet. 2011 saw a modest start by the top-seeded Wojtaskek in the Tata Steel (Group B) (2011), where he came 8th with 6.5/13 and in the 2011 Polish Championship where he scored 6/9 to come equal second with Pawel Jaracz behind Mateusz Bartel. However, he returned to form by turning in a 2812 performance at the 12th European Individual Championship (2011) to score 8.5/11 and to place =1st, 2nd on count back, thereby qualifying for the World Cup (2011), where he defeated Armenian GM Arman Pashikian in the first round, but lost to Georgian GM Baadur Jobava in the second round. He won the Gyorgy Marx Memorial IX (2011) convincingly with 8/10 and a TPR of 2892. In 2012, he placed =3rd in the category 18 13th Karpov International (2012) behind Dmitry Jakovenko and Ruslan Ponomariov and finished off 2012 with a score of 7.5/11, placing =3rd at the Kolkata Open (2012) and a relatively poor 4.5/10 at the 1st International GM Round Robin Chess Tournament held in New Delhi in late December. His poor form continued at the Tradewise Gibraltar (2013) where his 7/10 lost 10 rating points.

Olympiad:

At the 37th Chess Olympiad (2006) in Turin, Wojtaszek scored 9/11 as first reserve, with a rating performance of 2756. At the Olympiad (2008) in Dresden, he scored 7/10 on board 3. Playing top board for Poland in the 39th Chess Olympiad (2010), "Radek" scored 6/9 with a 2769 performance rating. At the 40th Chess Olympiad (2012) held in Istanbul, he won the silver medal for top board with 7.5/10 and a TPR of 2844.

Rapids:

Wojtaszek was the European rapid chess champion in December 2008. In February 2013, he scored 10.5/14 to place =1st alongside Vladimir Malakhov at the GM Vladimir Petrov Memorial A tournament and in March 2013, placed 3rd at the 3rd Ferdynanda Dziedzica International Memorial Tournament played in Trzcianka in Poland.

Rating and ranking:

As of 1 May 2013, Wojtaszek's rating was 2701, making him the top ranked player in Poland and number 45 in the world. His rapid rating is 2735 (world #17). As yet, he has no blitz rating.

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