| Mateusz Bartel | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Mateusz Bartel |
| Country | Poland |
| Born | January 3, 1985 |
| Title | Grandmaster |
| FIDE rating | 2613 (July 2010) [1] |
| Peak rating | 2634 (March 2010) |
Mateusz Bartel (born January 3, 1985 in Warsaw) is a Polish chess player who holds the title of International Grandmaster (GM). He won the under-18 European championship in 2003.
Bartel learned to play the game at age 5-6 when he and his brother were at home ill with chickenpox. Both Mateusz and his brother entered the chess club Polonia Warsaw.[2]
Bartel represented his country in the Chess Olympiad in 2006, 2008 and 2010. In the Turin 2006 Olympiad he played fourth board, scoring 5/10 (+3 =4 -3).[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.[4]
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.[5] In 2009 he came first at Prievidza.[6]
He won the Polish Chess Championship in 2006, 2010 and 2011.