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Krzysztof è nato l'11 febbraio del 1965 a Poznan, si è laureato in matematica ed in informatica alla locale Università ed ha fatto fino al 2010 il ricercatore universitario nel campo dell'intelligenza artificiale presso la Università Adam Mickiewicz dove ha anche insegnato programmazione linguistica.
È sposato con Magdalena dalla quale ha avuto tre figli (Piotr, Pawel e Malgosia) ed in gioventù ha praticato sia il calcio che il ping pong distinguendosi in entrambe le discipline. I due maschi seguono le orme paterne praticando proficuamente sia il calcetto che il bridge.
Ha imparato a giocare a Bridge da ragazzo osservando la madre e a soli 20 anni ha vinto il suo primo titolo nazionale a Squadre. A 23 anni aveva già scalato la classifica dei migliori giocatori polacchi.
Krzysztof che oggi è un World Grand Master, ha vinto numerosi titoli polacchi giocando in coppia con Piotr Tuszynski ed in campo internazionale si è messo in luce arrivando secondo nei campionati Mondiali Transazionali a Squadre di Hammamet nel 1997, nelle Olimpiadi di Maastrictht del 2000 e negli Europei Open a Coppie del 2009.
Krzysztof, che ha anche vinto il Patton a Biarritz nel 1997, il Cavendish Teams nel 2002 e la Vanderbilt Cup nel 2008, ha raccolto anche un discreto successo come giornalista bridgistico ed ha scritto una serie di testi tradotti in inglese e intitolati rispettivamente WJ95, WJ2000, WJ2005 e WJ2010, che descrivano il Sistema Dichiarativo Nazionale Polacco.
Spesso gioca con il figlio con il quale nel 2013 ha vinto l'Open Team agli Europei.
Nel 2013 ha anche guadagnato il bronzo nella Bermuda Bowl e l'argento ai World Mind Games, mentre, nel 2015 è finalmente divenuto Campione del Mondo e nel 2016 ha guadagnato il bronzo alle Olimpiadi. Infine, nel 2017 a guadagnato un altro bronzo nello Squadre Open agli Europei Open.
Krzysztof Jassem was born in 1965 in Poznan, Poland. He
graduated from his hometown university with a degree in Mathematics in 1988, and
in 1997 earned his Doctorate in Computer Science.
Since 2010 he is a full professor at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań.
He teaches programming and computational linguistics. His current project is in the field of 'Machine Translation,' where he is involved in developing a Polish-English machine translation system called 'POLENG'.
Krzysztof and wife Magdalena have two sons (Piotr and Pawel) and a daughter, Malgosia. The two boys follow in the footsteps of their father, practicing profitably bridge and occasionally other sports, like soccer, basketball and volleyball.
As a youngster, one of the top ten Polish table tennis players of his age.
He has an older sister who moved to the US in 1988 to further her scientific career and now lives in Canada. She is a professor at Kongs University, Halifax.
Krzysztof won his first Polish National title in 1985—the
Polish First Division championship (the most important team title in Poland).
At the time, he was playing for the Budowlani Poznan Club, in partnership with
Marek Szukala, with top Polish internationals Andrzej Milde/Marek Kudla as
teammates.
Krzysztof's first notable partnership was with Krzysztof Oppenheim, a member of the gold medal winning Polish junior team in 1983. “Oppenheimwas probably the best Polish junior player in history, reports JassemIn 1984, at the age of 23, he won the Open ranking in Poland. We played together for two years (1993-95), but he gave up bridge after our third consecutive failure to qualify for the Polish national team”.
Jassem’s first major international success came at the 1997 World Championships in Hammamet, Tunisia, where together with Piotr Tuszyński they earned Silver medals in the World Transnational Open Teams. Krzysztof made his debut in the Polish national team at the 1999 European Teams Championships in Malta, where he and Tuszynski were the best Polish pair in the Butler rankings.
In 2000, Jassem-Tuszynski finished third in the prestigious Cap Gemini Invitational Pairs in The Hague, The Netherlands. Their most gratifying but also their most disappointing result to date came at the 2000 World Teams Olympiad in Maastricht, where their team bowed to Italy in the final of the Open Teams, losing the lead in the last few deals.
Krzysztof also won the Cavendish Teams in 2002 and the Vanderbilt Cup in 2008 and he earned a silver medal in European Pairs Championship of 2009, playing with Krzysztof Martens.
His latest achievements (2013) include second place at the Fast Open Pairs and, paired his son Pawel, won the European Open Teams. Always in 2013, he also won the bronze medal in the Bermuda Bowl and the silver medal in the World Mind Games. Finally, in 2015 he shall be World Champion and in 2016 earned a bronze medal in Olympiad. In 2017 he earn an other bronze medal in the Open Teams at European Open.
He also collects some success as a bridge journalist and he has written a series of books on Polish Club, called respectively: WJ95, WJ2000, WJ2005, WJ2010. WJ 2005 has been translated into English and found itself on a short list of nominations to IPBA annual “Best book” award.
