Bartel, Rajlich win the Polish championship 2012
3/2/2012 – For GM Mateusz Bartel it was a hat-trick: the third title in a row, won in a very close contest in play-off games, and IM Iweta Rajlich won her title after drawing both play-off games on a better tiebreak score. So there was plenty of action and excitement right to the end. We bring you a big report with annotations by Iweta Rajlich and a beautiful pictorial by Sylwia Rudolf.
Mateusz Bartel and Iweta Rajlich Polish champions 2012!
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.
Final Standings - after nine rounds
| Pl. | Sd | Ti. | Name | Rtng |
Pts |
MBch. |
Bch. |
Wins |
| 1 | 2 | GM | Bartel, Mateusz | 2658 |
7.0 |
37.50 |
48.00 |
6 |
| 2 | 5 | GM | Macieja, Bartlomiej | 2617 |
7.0 |
36.50 |
46.50 |
5 |
| 3 | 4 | GM | Miton, Kamil | 2623 |
6.5 |
33.50 |
42.50 |
4 |
| 4 | 1 | GM | Wojtaszek, Radoslaw | 2706 |
6.0 |
36.50 |
47.50 |
4 |
| 5 | 11 | GM | Moranda, Wojciech | 2568 |
5.5 |
31.50 |
42.00 |
5 |
| 6 | 3 | GM | Socko, Bartosz | 2636 |
5.0 |
36.50 |
47.00 |
3 |
| 7 | 15 | IM | Bulski, Krzysztof | 2523 |
5.0 |
36.00 |
47.00 |
3 |
| 8 | 8 | GM | Kempinski, Robert | 2610 |
5.0 |
34.00 |
43.00 |
3 |
| 9 | 19 | IM | Kuzmicz, Krystian | 2451 |
5.0 |
32.00 |
41.00 |
2 |
| 10 | 10 | GM | Swiercz, Dariusz | 2583 |
5.0 |
31.00 |
41.50 |
4 |
| 11 | 7 | GM | Markowski, Tomasz | 2612 |
4.5 |
33.00 |
43.50 |
2 |
| 12 | 22 | IM | Hnydiuk, Aleksander | 2409 |
4.5 |
28.00 |
36.50 |
4 |
| 13 | 21 | IM | Dragun, Kamil | 2420 |
4.5 |
26.50 |
33.50 |
3 |
| 14 | 6 | GM | Gajewski, Grzegorz | 2616 |
4.0 |
34.50 |
43.50 |
3 |
| 15 | 9 | GM | Mista, Aleksander | 2587 |
4.0 |
33.50 |
43.50 |
2 |
| 16 | 13 | GM | Jaracz, Pawel | 2542 |
4.0 |
30.50 |
38.50 |
3 |
| 17 | 24 | FM | Duda, Jan-Krzysztof | 2380 |
4.0 |
28.50 |
37.00 |
2 |
| 18 | 23 | FM | Strzemiecki, Zbigniew | 2402 |
4.0 |
26.00 |
33.50 |
2 |
| 19 | 12 | GM | Tomczak, Jacek | 2543 |
3.5 |
28.50 |
36.50 |
2 |
| 20 | 18 | IM | Leniart, Arkadiusz | 2455 |
3.5 |
28.00 |
35.50 |
2 |
| 21 | 14 | GM | Olszewski, Michal | 2539 |
3.5 |
27.00 |
36.00 |
2 |
| 22 | 17 | IM | Sieciechowicz, Marcin | 2459 |
3.0 |
25.50 |
34.50 |
1 |
| 23 | 20 | IM | Kolosowski, Mateusz | 2439 |
2.0 |
30.00 |
38.50 |
2 |
| 24 | 16 | IM | Piorun, Kacper | 2520 |
2.0 |
27.00 |
35.50 |
1 |
Gold medal for Mateusz Bartel, silver for Bartlomiej Macieja, bronze for
Kamil Miton
The Bartel support team: girlfriend, friend, grandmother, brother
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.
Gold for Iweta Rajlich, silver for Joanna Majdan-Gajewska, bronze for Jolanta
Zawadzka
The three key games mentioned above can be replayed in our Javascript player:
Picture gallery by Sylwia Rudolf
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:
Links
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