Mateusz Bartel

Mateusz Bartel ( born January 3, 1985 in Warsaw) is a Polish chess master.

Three times Bartel won the title of Polish Youth Champion: 1995 in the category U10, 1997 in category U12 and 2005 at the U18. In 2002 and 2003 he became Junior Vice- European Champion and European Junior U18 championship. In 2001, he first participated at the Polish Championship adults. After another participations, he won the 2006 national champion Bartosz Socko and Radosław Wojtaszek before. In 2007 he was third, in 2008 second. 2010, 2011 and 2012 ( after Tie against Bartholomew Macieja ) he could win the title again.

His first grandmaster result he achieved in 2003 the Aeroflot Open in Moscow. In the same year he won in Balatonlelle team silver at the European Youth Championships. In 2004 he was in a very strong field in the fifth Open of Nova Gorica and adopted in the same year in Tripoli at the World Chess Championship by knockout system in part ( he lost in the first round of the world-class player Teymur Rəcəbov ). In the next year his FIDE awarded the grandmaster title. In 2005 he won in Drammen and was at the first time -aligned European Championship in Cork in second. In 2006 he participated in the Chess Olympiad in Turin for Poland. In 2007 he won in Illes Medes and Port Erin on the Isle of Man.

Bartel plays in the chess Bundesliga for SV Wattenscheid, in Poland earlier for SzK Polonia Warsaw, 2008 KS Polonia vote Wroclaw, in France for Marseille Echecs, in Portugal for the Associação Académica de Coimbra and in Austria for the SK Advisory Invest Baden. In 2012 he finished the Aeroflot Open in Moscow because of the better fine score ( more games with Black) the first place.

He studied computer science and econometrics at the Agricultural University of Warsaw.