Mateusz Bartel

Mateusz Bartel
Full name	Mateusz Bartel
Country	Poland
Born	January 3, 1985 (1985-01-03) (age 26)
Title	Grandmaster
FIDE rating	2613 (July 2010) [1]
Peak rating	2634 (March 2010)

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.^[2]

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).^[3] 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.^[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]

He won the Polish Chess Championship in 2006, 2010 and 2011.

References

1. ^ [1]
2. ^ Interview with GM Mateusz Bartel Chessdom interview
3. ^ Poland's scoresheet 2006 Olimpbase
4. ^ "39th Olympiad Khanty-Mansiysk 2010 Open tournament". Chess-Results.com. http://www.chess-results.com/tnr36795.aspx?art=21&lan=3&fed=POL&flag=30&m=-1&wi=1000. Retrieved 1 November 2010. 
5. ^ Crowther, Mark (2007-10-01). "TWIC 673: 16th Monarch Assurance Isle of Man". London Chess Center. http://www.chess.co.uk/twic/twic673.html#4. Retrieved 21 May 2010. 

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Name	Bartel, Mateusz
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Date of birth	1985-01-03
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