| Mateusz Bartel | |
|---|---|
 Bartel in 2022 | |
| Country | Poland |
| Born | 3 January 1985 Warsaw, Poland |
| Title | Grandmaster (2005) |
| FIDE rating | 2630 (August 2024) |
| Peak rating | 2677 (May 2012) |
| Peak ranking | No. 73 (May 2012) |
Mateusz Bartel (born 3 January 1985) is a Polish chess Grandmaster. He won the Polish Chess Championship in 2006, 2010, 2011 and 2012.
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". [1]
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 in Cork.
In 2007, he tied for 1st–6th with Vitali Golod, Zahar Efimenko, Yuri Yakovich, Michael Roiz and Mikhail Kobalia in the 16th Monarch Assurance Isle of Man International tournament, as first on tie-break. [2] In 2009 he came first at Prievidza. [3]
In February 2012, Bartel tied for 1st–3rd with Anton Korobov and Pavel Eljanov in the 11th Aeroflot Open, winning the prestigious event on tie-break. [4] In August 2017, Bartel won the traditional Open (Master Tournament) at the Biel Chess Festival (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 in Rhodes.
In 2015 Bartel won the bronze medal at the European Individual Championship in Jerusalem.
Bartel represented his country in the Chess Olympiad in 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2014. In the Turin 2006 Olympiad he played fourth board, scoring 5/10 (+3 =4 -3). [5] In the Dresden 2008 Olympiad, Bartel scored 4/7 (+3 =2 -2) as the team's third board. In the Khanty-Mansiysk 2010 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. [6] After Sébastien Feller's disqualification for cheating, Bartel received the gold medal. [7] [8]
In May 2024, in Rzeszów he won bronze medal in Polish Chess Championship. [9]
Anton Sergiyovych Korobov 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 best male chess player of Ukraine of 2012.
Dmitry Olegovich Jakovenko is a Russian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2001. Jakovenko was European champion in 2012. He was a member of the gold medal-winning Russian team at the 2009 World Team Chess Championship and at the European Team Chess Championships of 2007 and 2015.
Pavel Eljanov is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster. He has won two team gold medals and one individual silver medal at the Chess Olympiads.
Michael Roiz is an Israeli chess Grandmaster.
Maxim Rodshtein is an Israeli chess grandmaster. He competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2007, 2011, 2015 and 2017.
Evgeny Vladimirovich Alekseev is a Russian chess grandmaster and Russian champion in 2006. He competed in the FIDE World Chess Championship 2004 and the FIDE World Cup in 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2013.
Radosław Wojtaszek is a Polish chess grandmaster. He is a three-time Polish champion.
Alexander Moiseenko is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster and the 2013 European champion. He was a member of the gold medal-winning Ukrainian team at the Chess Olympiads of 2004 and 2010.
Zhou Jianchao is a Chinese chess player. In 2006, he became China's 21st Grandmaster at the age of 17. Zhou competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2007, 2009 and 2015.
Zhou Weiqi is a Chinese chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2008.
Zahar Oleksandrovych Efimenko 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.
Nikita Kirillovich Vitiugov is a Russian chess grandmaster who internationally represents England as of September 2023. He changed federations in response to the Russia-Ukraine war. He was a member of the victorious Russian team at the World Team Chess Championship in 2009 and 2013. Vitiugov won the Gibraltar Masters tournament in 2013 and the Grenke Open in 2017. Vitiugov won the 2021 Russian Chess Championship.
The 39th Chess Olympiad, organised by FIDE and comprising an open and a women's tournament, as well as several other events designed to promote the game of chess, took place from September 19 to October 4, 2010, in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. There were 148 teams in the open event and 115 in the women's event. In total, 1306 players were registered.
Yu Yangyi is a Chinese chess grandmaster. He qualified for the Grandmaster title at 14 years, 11 months and 23 days old in 2009. He is a three-time Chinese Chess Champion and the 2014 Asian Chess Champion.
Mikhail Robertovich Kobalia is a Russian chess Grandmaster (1997).
Yuri Rafailovich Yakovich is a Russian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1990. He was a member of the silver medal-winning Russian team at the 1997 European Team Chess Championship. In 2019, Yakovich was part of the Russian team that won the gold medal at the European Senior Team Championship in the 50+ category.
Denis Rimovich Khismatullin is a Russian chess grandmaster. He is the first grandmaster from Bashkiria. Khismatullin competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2013 and 2015.
Sébastien Feller is a French chess grandmaster. He was found guilty of cheating by the French Chess Federation (FFE) and sanctioned in 2012 by not being allowed to participate in FIDE tournaments for 2 years and 9 months. He denied the charges and said they were motivated by a dispute over the direction of the French Chess Federation.
Sanan Sjugirov is a Russian chess grandmaster of Kalmyk origin who represents Hungary. He was European champion and world champion in his age category. Sjugirov competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2009 and 2015.
Aleksei Vladimirovich Pridorozhni is a Russian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2011.
   | This biographical article relating to a Polish chess figure is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
