Mateusz Bartel (born 3 January 1985) is a Polish

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Grandmaster. He won the

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in 2006, 2010, 2011 and 2012.

Career

Bartel learnt to play the game at the age of 6 from his father when he and his younger brother were at home ill with

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. Both Mateusz and his brother later entered the chess club "Polonia Warsaw". He won the under-18 European championship in 2003. In 2005 Bartel finished equal first with Zoltan Gyimesi in the inaugural

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. In 2007, he tied for 1st–6th with Vitali Golod, Zahar Efimenko, Yuri Yakovich,

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and Mikhail Kobalia in the 16th Monarch Assurance

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International tournament, as first on tie-break. In 2009 he came first at

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. In February 2012, Bartel tied for 1st–3rd with

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and Pavel Eljanov in the 11th

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, winning the prestigious event on tie-break. In August 2017, Bartel won the traditional Open (Master Tournament) at the

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(50th and jubilee edition), on tie-break above Vladimir Baklan. He played for Czech team "G-Team

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" that won the 2013

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. In 2015 Bartel won the bronze medal at the European Individual Championship in

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. Bartel represented his country in the

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in 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2014. In the Turin 2006 Olympiad he played fourth board, scoring 5/10 (+3 =4 -3). In the Dresden 2008 Olympiad, Bartel scored 4/7 (+3 =2 -2) as the team's third board. In the Khanty-Mansiysk 2010 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. After Sébastien Feller's disqualification for cheating, Bartel received the gold medal. In May 2024, in

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he won bronze medal in Polish Chess Championship.81. Indywidualne Mistrzostwa Polski Mężczyzn w Szachach
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* 1985 births Living people Polish chess players Chess Grandmasters Chess Olympiad competitors Chess players from Warsaw {{Poland-chess-bio-stub