Bartłomiej Macieja

Bartholomew Macieja (born 4 October 1977 in Warsaw) is a Polish chess player.

Macieja began his chess career as a teenager. As early as 1992, at the age of 14, he played for the first time with at the Polish National Championship of adults. In the same year he won the bronze medal at the World Youth Championships U14. In 1994 he became Polish Junior Champion U18. He became an International Master in 1996, the title of grandmaster gave him the World Chess Federation FIDE 1998. 2002 Macieja in Batumi ( Georgia) European champion and defeated the same year the Hungarian Judit Polgar in a chess competition in Budapest 5-3. In the years 2004 and 2009 he became the Polish national champion, since 1998 he is a permanent member of the Polish Olympic Team.

He is secretary of the new professional players' union Association of Chess Professionals (ACP). His current Elo rating is 2624 (as of January 2010), so it is on the fifth place in the Polish Elo ranking. His previous highest Elo rating was 2653 in January 2004.