In 2004, in Środa Wielkopolska Jakub Czakon won silver medal in Polish Youth Chess Championship in U20 age group and took 3rd place in the Round-robin tournament in Legnica. A year earlier, he took 1st place in Swiss-system tournaments in Dobczyce and in Koszalin. In 2005 he single-handedly won in Koszalin. Jakub Czakon achieved further successes in the open chess tournaments played in 2006: he took 1st place in Castelldefels and Aschach an der Donau[1] and shared 1st place in Görlitz[2] and in Leutersdorf.[3] In 2007 he shared 1st place in the open chess tournament in San Sebastián[4] and won the tournament Konik Morski Rewal in Rewal.[5]
Jakub Czakon twice participated in Polish Chess Championships (2008, 2013).[6] He ten times participated in Polish Team Chess Championship (2004-2009, 2011, 2014–2015, 2017) and in 2006 won bronze medal with chess club JKSz MCKiS Jaworzno.[7] In 2008, in Racibórz Jakub Czakon won Polish Blitz Chess Championship.[8]
Jakub Czakon achieved the highest rating in his career so far on October 1, 2007, with a score of 2510 points, he was ranked 20th among Polish chess players.[9]
