Mateusz Bartel (born 3 January 1985) is a Polish
chess
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Grandmaster. He won the
Polish Chess Championship
Individual Polish Chess Championship is the most important Polish chess tournament, aiming at selecting the best chess players in Poland. Based on the results of the tournament (mainly), the Polish Chess Federation selects the national and subsequ ...
in 2006, 2010, 2011 and 2012.
Career
Bartel learnt to play the game at the age of 6 from his father when he and his younger brother were at home ill with
chickenpox. Both Mateusz and his brother later entered the chess club "Polonia Warsaw".
He won the
under-18 European championship in 2003. In 2005 Bartel finished equal first with
Zoltan Gyimesi in the inaugural
EU Individual Open Chess Championship
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in
Cork
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.
In 2007, he tied for 1st–6th with
Vitali Golod,
Zahar Efimenko
Zahar Oleksandrovych Efimenko (; born 3 July 1985) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster. He was a member of the gold medal-winning Ukrainian team at the 2010 Chess Olympiad. Efimenko competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2005, 2009 and 2011.
Chess car ...
,
Yuri Yakovich
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,
Michael Roiz and
Mikhail Kobalia in the 16th Monarch Assurance
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International tournament, as first on tie-break. In 2009 he came first at
Prievidza
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In February 2012, Bartel tied for 1st–3rd with
Anton Korobov
Anton Sergiyovych Korobov ( ua, Антон Сергійович Коробов; born 25 June 1985) is a Ukrainian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2003. Korobov is a four-time Ukrainian champion. He was voted the b ...
and
Pavel Eljanov
Pavel Eljanov ( uk, Павло Володимирович Ельянов, translit=Pavlo Volodymyrovych Elyanov; born 10 May 1983) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster. He has won two team gold medals and one individual silver medal at the Chess Oly ...
in the 11th
Aeroflot Open The Aeroflot Open is an annual open chess tournament played in Moscow and sponsored by the airline Aeroflot. It was established in 2002 and quickly grew to be the strongest open tournament; in 2013 it was converted to a rapid
Rapids are sections ...
, winning the prestigious event on tie-break. In August 2017, Bartel won the traditional Open (Master Tournament) at the
Biel Chess Festival
The Biel International Chess Festival is an annual chess tournament that takes place in Biel/Bienne
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(50th and jubilee edition), on tie-break above
Vladimir Baklan.
He played for Czech team "G-Team
Nový Bor" that won the 2013
European Chess Club Cup The European Chess Club Cup is an annual chess tournament for club teams from Europe. It is organised by the European Chess Union. The competition is held with the Swiss system over seven rounds. It consists of two sections, open and women's, with ...
in
Rhodes
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.
In 2015 Bartel won the bronze medal at the
European Individual Championship in
Jerusalem
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.
Bartel represented his country in the
Chess Olympiad
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in 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2014. In the
Turin 2006 Olympiad he played fourth board, scoring 5/10 (+3 =4 -3). In the
Dresden 2008 Olympiad, Bartel scored 4/7 (+3 =2 -2) as the team's third board. In the
2010 Khanty-Mansiysk Olympiad he played on the fifth board scoring 7 points out of 9 games (+6 =2 -1) and got a silver medal for individual result on his board. After
Sébastien Feller's disqualification for cheating, Bartel received the gold medal.
References
External links
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1985 births
Living people
Polish chess players
Chess grandmasters
Chess Olympiad competitors
Sportspeople from Warsaw
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