Lublin Grandmaster Tournament

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The Lublin Grandmaster Tournament (in full Międzynarodowy Arcymistrzowski Turniej Szachowy im. Unii Lubelskiej meaning International Grandmasters' Tournament the Lublin Union Memorial) is an annual chess tournament, set up primarily as part of the city's bid to become the 2016 European Capital of Culture, which eventually went to Wroclaw instead.[1] The venue is the Crown Tribunal in Lublin.

The 2009 tournament was a ten-player single round robin held between 29 May and 6 June. Boris Grachev won the event, half a point ahead of Roiz and Wojtaszek.[2]

PositionParticipantPoints
1 Boris Grachev (RUS)6
2-3 Michael Roiz (ISR)5.5
2-3 Radosław Wojtaszek (POL)5.5
4 Bartosz Soćko (POL)5
5 Sergei Zhigalko (BLR)4.5
6-9 Mateusz Bartel (POL)4
6-9 Marcin Dziuba (POL)4
6-9 Grzegorz Gajewski (POL)4
6-9 Igor Khenkin (GER)4
10 Vadim Malakhatko (BEL)2.5

Lublin Union Memorial 2010

The 2010 edition was held again as a ten-player round robin and took place from 9 to 18 May.[3][4][5] The tournament was won on Sonnenborn-Berger tiebreak by Bartłomiej Macieja, ahead of defending champion Grachev and Mateusz Bartel.

Player Country Rating Points
1 Bartłomiej Macieja Poland Poland 2618 5,5
2 Boris Grachev Russia Russia 2667 5,5
3 Mateusz Bartel Poland Poland 2618 5,5
4 Bartosz Soćko Poland Poland 2644 5
5 Georg Meier Germany Germany 2638 5
6 Marcin Dziuba Poland Poland 2576 4,5
7 Vladimir Baklan Ukraine Ukraine 2633 4,5
8 Sergei Tiviakov Netherlands Netherlands 2634 4
9 Igor Kurnosov Russia Russia 2680 3,5
10 Dariusz Swiercz Poland Poland 2501 2

Lublin Union Memorial 2011

The format changed slightly for the third edition, held between 15–21 May 2011. While still held as a single round robin, the field was shrunk to eight players from ten in the last edition. Top seed Shirov won, half a point ahead of Grachev and Zhigalko.[6]

Player Country Rating Points
1 Alexei Shirov Spain Spain 2709 5
2 Boris Grachev Russia Russia 2669 4.5
3 Sergei Zhigalko Belarus Belarus 2679 4.5
4 Michael Roiz Israel Israel 2660 4
5 Krishnan Sasikiran India India 2676 4
6 Bartosz Socko Poland Poland 2654 2
7 Radoslav Wojtaszek Poland Poland 2721 2
8 Evgeny Alekseev Russia Russia 2673 2

Lublin Union Memorial 2012

For the fourth edition, the format was changed to a double Scheveningen match between Ukraine and Poland, where each member of one team plays twice against all members of the other team, one round being standard time control and the second being rapid games.[7] The Ukraine team won both 15.5-10.5 in the standard time control and 13.5-11.5 in the rapid.[8][9] A two-game regular blitz match was held between the teams after the rapid section.[10]

Classical time control: Ukraine 15.5 - Poland 10.5

No. Player Rating U1 U2 U3 U4 U5 P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 Total
U1 Zahar Efimenko 2689 X X X X X 0 0.5 0.5 1 1 3
U2 Anton Korobov 2678 X X X X X 1 1 1 0 0 3
U3 Yuriy Kryvoruchko 2676 X X X X X 1 0.5 0.5 0.5 0 2.5
U4 Sergey Fedorchuk 2634 X X X X X 0.5 1 0.5 1 1 4
U5 Yaroslav Zherebukh 2632 X X X X X 1 0.5 0.5 0 0 2
P1 Mateusz Bartel 2677 1 0 0 0.5 0 X X X X X 1.5
P2 Bartosz Soćko 2635 0.5 0 0.5 0 0.5 X X X X X 1.5
P3 Kamil Mitoń 2622 0.5 0 0.5 0.5 0.5 X X X X X 2
P4 Bartłomiej Macieja 2614 0 1 0.5 0 1 X X X X X 2.5
P5 Dariusz Świercz 2585 0 1 1 0 1 X X X X X 3

Rapid time control: Ukraine 13.5 - Poland 11.5

No. Player Rating U1 U2 U3 U4 U5 P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 Total
U1 Zahar Efimenko 2689 X X X X X 0.5 1 0 0.5 0.5 2.5
U2 Anton Korobov 2678 X X X X X 1 0.5 1 0.5 1 4
U3 Yuriy Kryvoruchko 2676 X X X X X 05 1 0.5 0 0.5 2.5
U4 Sergey Fedorchuk 2634 X X X X X 0.5 1 0 0.5 0 2
U5 Yaroslav Zherebukh 2632 X X X X X 05 0 1 1 0 2.5
P1 Mateusz Bartel 2677 0.5 0 0.5 0.5 0.5 X X X X X 2
P2 Bartosz Soćko 2635 0 0.5 0 0 1 X X X X X 1.5
P3 Kamil Mitoń 2622 1 0 0.5 1 0 X X X X X 2.5
P4 Bartłomiej Macieja 2614 0.5 0.5 1 0.5 0 X X X X X 2.5
P5 Dariusz Świercz 2585 0.5 0 0.5 1 1 X X X X X 3

Blitz match: Ukraine 5.5 - Poland 4.5

Ukraine Score Poland
Zahar Efimenko 0.5 - 1.5 Mateusz Bartel
Anton Korobov 1.5 - 0.5 Bartosz Socko
Yuriy Kryvoruchko 1.5 - 0.5 Kamil Miton
Sergey Fedorchuk 1.5 - 0.5 Bartlomiej Macieja
Yaroslav Zherebukh 0.5 - 1.5 Dariusz Swiercz

Lublin Union Memorial 2013

The fifth edition returned to a ten-player round robin format and was held on 15–23 June 2013 at the Crown Tribunal. Draws before 40 moves were banned.[11]

Player Country Rating 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Points
1 Kirill Stupak Belarus Belarus 2510 XX 0.5 0.5 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 6
2 Kamil Dragun Poland Poland 2523 0.5 XX 0 0.5 0.5 1 1 1 1 0.5 6
3 Daniel Semcesen Sweden Sweden 2431 0.5 1 XX 0.5 0.5 0.5 0 1 0.5 1 5,5
4 Kacper Drozdowski Poland Poland 2441 0 0.5 0.5 XX 0.5 0.5 0.5 1 1 1 5.5
5 Daniel Sadzikowski Poland Poland 2448 0 0.5 0.5 0.5 XX 1 1 0 1 0.5 5
6 Jan-Krzysztof Duda Poland Poland 2539 1 0 0.5 0.5 0 XX 1 0.5 0.5 1 5
7 Oleg Romanishin Ukraine Ukraine 2503 0 0 1 0.5 0 0 XX 1 0.5 1 4
8 Jolanta Zawadzka Poland Poland 2391 1 0 0 0 1 0.5 0 XX 0.5 0.5 3.5
9 Oleksandr Sulypa Ukraine Ukraine 2508 0 0 0.5 0 0 0.5 0.5 0.5 XX 0.5 2.5
10 Monika Soćko Poland Poland 2458 0 0.5 0 0 0.5 0 0 0.5 0.5 XX 2

Lublin Union Memorial 2014

The format was similar to the 2012 format with four players per team with one round classical and one round rapid (no blitz match) on 6–11 May 2014.[12] Again Ukraine and Poland competed, Ukraine dominating the classical round 12.5-3.5 but Poland convincingly won the rapid 10-6.

Classical match: Ukraine 12.5 - Poland 3.5

No. Player Rating U1 U2 U3 U4 P1 P2 P3 P4 Total
U1 Alexander Moiseenko 2707 X X X X 1 1 1 0.5 3.5
U2 Alexander Areshchenko 2701 X X X X 1 0.5 1 1 3.5
U3 Zahar Efimenko 2648 X X X X 0 1 0.5 0.5 2
U4 Mikhailo Oleksienko 2618 X X X X 1 1 1 0.5 3.5
P1 Radoslaw Wojtaszek 2724 0 0 1 0 X X X X 1
P2 Grzegorz Gajewski 2641 0 0.5 0 0 X X X X 0.5
P3 Dariusz Swiercz 2608 0 0 0.5 0 X X X X 0.5
P4 Jan-Krzysztof Duda 2587 0.5 0 0.5 0.5 X X X X 1.5

Rapid match: Ukraine 6 - 10 Poland

No. Player Rating U1 U2 U3 U4 P1 P2 P3 P4 Total
U1 Alexander Moiseenko 2699 X X X X 0.5 0 0 0.5 1
U2 Alexander Areshchenko 2684 X X X X 0.5 0 0 0 0.5
U3 Zahar Efimenko 2677 X X X X 0.5 1 0.5 0.5 2.5
U4 Mikhailo Oleksienko 2578 X X X X 0.5 1 0 0.5 2
P1 Radoslaw Wojtaszek 2710 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 X X X X 2
P2 Grzegorz Gajewski 2633 1 1 0 0 X X X X 2
P3 Dariusz Swiercz 2609 1 1 0.5 1 X X X X 3.5
P4 Jan-Krzysztof Duda 2467 0.5 1 0.5 0.5 X X X X 2.5

Lublin Union Memorial 2015

Lublin Union Memorial 2016

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