Bartel, Rajlich win the Polish championship 2012

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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.
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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:

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1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.d4 0-0 6.Be2 e5 7.Be3 c6 8.d5 Ng4 9.Bg5 f6 10.Bh4 Nh6 11.Nd2 Qd7 12.f3 f5 13.b4 Nf7 14.Nb3 Bh6 15.Qd3 Na6 16.a3 c5 17.bxc5 Nxc5 18.Nxc5 dxc5 19.a4 Nd6 20.a5 Qc7 21.0-0 Bd7 22.Be7 Rf7 23.Bxd6 Qxd6 24.Rfb1 Rb8 25.Bd1 Qf6 26.Ba4 Bc8 and now the passed d-pawn is driven into the black position. 27.d6 Be6 28.d7 Rd8 29.Rxb7 Qh4 30.g3 Qh5 31.Rf1 Qh3 32.Rxa7 f4 33.g4 Bxg4 34.a6 Bg5 35.Rb7 Bh4 This may look dangerous for White, but he can simply ignore the kingside attack and push his a-pawn. 36.a7 Rff8 37.Nd5 Bg3 38.Rb2 and the white king is safe. Bh4 39.Nb6 Kg7 40.Bc6 1–0
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WhiteEloWBlackEloBResYearECOEventRnd
Macieja,B-Socko,B-1–02012Polish-ch9.1
Bartel,M-Markowski,T-1–02012Polish-ch9.2
Rajlich,I-Szczepkowska-Horowska,K-1–02012Polish-ch (women)8.3

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:

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White has just played 16.g4... 16...Nfxe4!? I guess it was a big surprise! A very creative positional piece sacrifice, which looks at first glance totally unsound - like a blunder. This is a very high level of human chess creativity, which is GM Bartel's speciality! 17.Bxe4 Nxe4 18.Rxe4 f5 19.gxf5 19.Re1? fxg4 20.hxg4 Bxg4 and the pin is deadly 19...Bxf5 How to evaluate this position? It looks to me that it is difficult to play with white - quite a few alternatives to choose from, never knowing where they lead... 20.Ng3 20.Re3!? Qd7 with the idea Bh3 with full compensation 20.Rg4!? Perhaps it was best to give away the material advantage right away. .. 20...Qd7 21.Re1 If 21.Nxf5 Qxf5 22.Re3 Bd8 with the idea Bb6 with very unplesent initiative 21...Bxh3 with the idea Bg4 22.Nh2 Rf6 23.Be3 Rbf8 White has a knight for two pawns, but it is not clear at all how to play this position. Black has strong initiative. 24.a4?! a very risky move 24.Kh1!? with the idea of defending against h5 by playing Rg1 Rxf2! another sacrifice! 24...Rg6 25.Rg1∞ 25.Bxf2 Rxf2 26.Re2 Rf4 27.Re3 Rf2 27...Rh4 28.Ne4∞ 28.Re2= 24...Rg6 25.Qh5? 25.Kh1 Bh4 26.Rg1 Bxg3 27.Rxg3 27.fxg3 Qf5 27...Rxg3 28.fxg3 Qf5 29.Qd2 bxa4 30.Rxa4 Qb1+ 31.Bg1 Qe4+ 25...bxa4 26.Ra2 Bd8 27.Rea1 Bb6 28.Bxb6 axb6 29.Rxa4 Qf7 30.Qe2? 30.Qxh3 Qxf2+ 31.Kh1 Rxg3 32.Qf1 and White would have likely survived in the endgame. 30...h5-+ 31.Ra8 h4 32.Rxf8+ Qxf8 33.Qf3 hxg3 34.fxg3 Qxf3 35.Nxf3 Rxg3+ 36.Kf2 Rg2+ and Black with two exra pawns soon won this game. 0–1
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WhiteEloWBlackEloBResYearECOEventRnd
Socko,B2636Bartel,M26580–12012C55Polish Individual Championship6
Majdan,J2387Worek,J22340–12012B84ch-POL w 20128

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