Mateusz Bartel
| Mateusz Bartel | |
|---|---|
 Mateusz Bartel (2013) | |
| Full name | Mateusz Bartel |
| Country | Poland |
| Born | January 3, 1985 |
| Title | Grandmaster |
| FIDE rating |
2658 (No. 93 in the January 2012 FIDE World Rankings) |
| Peak rating | 2658 (January 2012) |
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.[1]
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).[2] 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.[3] After Sebastien Feller’s disqualification for cheating, Bartel received a gold medal.[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] In February 2012, he tied for 1st–3rd with Anton Korobov and Pavel Eljanov in the 11th Aeroflot Open and won the event on tie-break.[7]
He won the Polish Chess Championship in 2006, 2010, 2011 and 2012.
References
- ↑ Interview with GM Mateusz Bartel Chessdom interview
- ↑ Poland's scoresheet 2006 Olimpbase
- ↑ "39th Olympiad Khanty-Mansiysk 2010 Open tournament". Chess-Results.com. Retrieved 1 November 2010.
- ↑ "2010 Olympiad Medals – Board 5". 03 June 2013. Retrieved 22 September 2013.
- ↑ Crowther, Mark (2007-10-01). "TWIC 673: 16th Monarch Assurance Isle of Man". London Chess Center. Retrieved 21 May 2010.
- ↑ "Banicky kahanec 2009 July 2009 Slovakia". FIDE. Retrieved 17 December 2011.
- ↑ "Aeroflot Open – Mateusz Bartel comes out on top". ChessBase.com. 2012-02-16. Retrieved 18 February 2012.