The final round of the 69th Enea Polish Championships and 64th Budimex Polish
Women's Championship brought a lot of excitement. In both tournaments play-offs
were needed to determine the winners. Mateusz Bartel defeated Bartlomiej Maciej
and won a hat-trick: the third title in a row. But before this could happen,
the two leading players (with 6.0/8 points) both won their final round games
in style, most impressively Matthew Bartel with dashing sacrifices of material
for the attack.
Iweta Rajlich played two tiebreak games against Joanna Majdan-Gajewska, drew
both, winning the title of Polish Women's Champion on a better tiebreak score.
Joanna Majdan-Gajewska defeated newcomer Malvina Chrzaszcz (don't try to pronounce
it – apparently it translates to "beetle", probably the buzzing
kind), while Iweta Rajlich, wife of the Rybka programmer Vasik, pinned her hopes
on an attack in a rook ending a pawn down. She seemed unable to convert it to
a win when her opponent made a fairly innocuous mistake which Iweta ruthlessly
punished.

The winner: GM Mateusz Bartel, rated 2658, with 7.0/9 points

Second place for GM Bartlomiej Macieja, 2617, 7.0/9 points

GM Kamil Miton, rated 2623, finished third with 6.5/9 points

Fourth place for Anand-second Radoslaw Wojtaszek, 2706,
who won an award for the most interesting set of games

The winner on tiebreaks: IM Iweta Rajlich, rated 2428

In second place: WGM Joanna Majdan-Gajewska, rated 2387

Third place: WGM Jolanta Zawadzka, rated 2358

Fourth place: WGM Barbara Jaracz, rated 2281

WGM Karina Szczepkowska-Horowska, rated 2377

WIM Joanna Worek, rated 2234

16-year-old WFM Anna Iwanow, rated 2180

FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov visited the Polish championship
"for the first time in history", the tournament bulletin says

An informal game in front of a gallery of great Polish players

Iweta Rajlich sent us annotations of the following two games: