The Rubinstein Memorial is an annual chess tournament held in Polanica-Zdrój, Poland in honour of the chess legend Akiba Rubinstein. Rubinstein died in 1961 and the tournament had its first edition in 1963. The tournament usually consists of several tournaments in different rating or age groups. The main tournament is usually a closed round-robin tournament, while the other tournaments are open Swiss system tournaments.
| # | Year | Winner | #RR |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1963 | Nikola Padevsky (Bulgaria) | 16 |
| 2 | 1964 | Andrzej Filipowicz (Poland) Bruno Parma (Yugoslavia) |
16 |
| 3 | 1965 | Evgeni Vasiukov (USSR) | 14 |
| 4 | 1966 | Vasily Smyslov (USSR) | 15 |
| 5 | 1967 | Semyon Furman (USSR) | 16 |
| 6 | 1968 | Vasily Smyslov (USSR) | 16 |
| 7 | 1969 | Laszlo Barczay (Hungary) | 16 |
| 8 | 1970 | Jan Smejkal (Czechoslovakia) | 16 |
| 9 | 1971 | Helmut Pfleger (Germany) | 16 |
| 10 | 1972 | Jan Smejkal (Czechoslovakia) | 16 |
| 11 | 1973 | Włodzimierz Schmidt (Poland) | 14 |
| 12 | 1974 | Vladimir Karasev (USSR) | 16 |
| 13 | 1975 | Yuri Averbakh (USSR) | 16 |
| 14 | 1976 | Gennadi Timoshchenko (USSR) | 15 |
| 15 | 1977 | Vlastimil Hort (Czechoslovakia) | 18 |
| 16 | 1978 | Mark Tseitlin (USSR) | 15 |
| 17 | 1979 | Yuri Razuvayev (USSR) | 16 |
| 18 | 1980 | Oleg Romanishin (USSR) | 14 |
| 19 | 1981 | Włodzimierz Schmidt (Poland) | 14 |
| 20 | 1982 | Lothar Vogt (East Germany) | 15 |
| 21 | 1983 | Viacheslav Dydyshko (USSR) | 15 |
| 22 | 1984 | Gennadi Zaichik (USSR) | 16 |
| 23 | 1985 | Konstantin Lerner (USSR) | 16 |
| 24 | 1986 | Peter Lukacs (Czechoslovakia) | 13 |
| 25 | 1987 | Uwe Boensch (East Germany) | 13 |
| 26 | 1988 | Alexander Chernin (USSR) | 15 |
| 27 | 1989 | Igor Novikov (USSR) | 16 |
| 28 | 1991 | Joël Lautier (France) | 12 |
| 29 | 1992 | Oleg Romanishin (Ukraine) | 12 |
| 30 | 1993 | Gennadi Sosonko (Netherlands) | 12 |
| 31 | 1994 | Evgeny Mochalov (Belarus) | Open |
| 32 | 1995 | Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria) | 12 |
| 33 | 1996 | Alexander Beliavsky (Slovenia) | 12 |
| 34 | 1997 | Sergei Rublevsky (Russia) | 10 |
| 35 | 1998 | Boris Gelfand (Belarus) | 10 |
| 36 | 1999 | Loek van Wely (Netherlands) | 10 |
| 37 | 2000 | Boris Gelfand (Israel) | 10 |
| 38 | 2001 | Vladimir Baklan (Ukraine) | Open |
| 39 | 2002 | Alexander Zubarev (Ukraine) | Open |
| 40 | 2003 | David Navara (Czech Republic) | Open |
| 41 | 2005 | Paweł Czarnota (Poland) | Open |
| 42 | 2006 | Robert Kempiński (Poland) | 10 |
| 43 | 2007 | Bartosz Soćko (Poland) | 10 |
| 44 | 2008 | Alexander Moiseenko (Ukraine) | 10 |
| 45 | 2009 | Wojciech Moranda (Poland) | Open |
| 46 | 2010 | Kacper Piorun (Poland) | Open |
| 47 | 2011 | Aleksander Hnydiuk (Poland) | 10 |