Rubinstein Memorial
Polish international tournament
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The Rubinstein Memorial is an annual chess tournament held in Polanica-Zdrój, Poland in honour of the chess legend Akiba Rubinstein. Rubinstein died in 1961 and the tournament had its first edition in 1963.
The tournament built a strong reputation all the way until the 1990s (peaking in 1998, when Karpov, Gelfand and Shirov among others participated), before declining throughout the 2000s. The 60th anniversary (2024) was marked by a significantly stronger field compared to previous years, featuring top-tier players including Duda, Keymer, and Wojtaszek.[1][2][3]
The tournament usually consists of several tournaments in different rating or age groups. The main tournament is usually a closed round-robin tournament, while the other tournaments are open Swiss system tournaments.
Winners
# Year Winner #RR 1 1963 
Nikola Padevsky (Bulgaria)16 2 1964 
Andrzej Filipowicz (Poland)
Bruno Parma (Yugoslavia)16 3 1965 
Evgeni Vasiukov (USSR)
Péter Dely (Hungary)14 4 1966 Vasily Smyslov (USSR)15 5 1967 Semyon Furman (USSR)16 6 1968 Vasily Smyslov (USSR)16 7 1969 Laszlo Barczay (Hungary)16 8 1970 
Jan Smejkal (Czechoslovakia)16 9 1971 
Helmut Pfleger (Germany)16 10 1972 Jan Smejkal (Czechoslovakia)16 11 1973 Włodzimierz Schmidt (Poland)14 12 1974 Vladimir Karasev (USSR)16 13 1975 Yuri Averbakh (USSR)16 14 1976 Gennadi Timoshchenko (USSR)15 15 1977 Vlastimil Hort (Czechoslovakia)18 16 1978 Mark Tseitlin (USSR)15 17 1979 Yuri Razuvayev (USSR)16 18 1980 Oleg Romanishin (USSR)14 19 1981 Włodzimierz Schmidt (Poland)14 20 1982 
Lothar Vogt (East Germany)15 21 1983 Viacheslav Dydyshko (USSR)15 22 1984 Gennadi Zaichik (USSR)16 23 1985 Konstantin Lerner (USSR)16 24 1986 Péter Lukács (Hungary)13 25 1987 Uwe Bönsch (East Germany)13 26 1988 Alexander Chernin (USSR)15 27 1989 Igor Novikov (USSR)16 28 1991 
Joël Lautier (France)12 29 1992 
Oleg Romanishin (Ukraine)12 30 1993 
Gennadi Sosonko (Netherlands)12 31 1994 
Evgeny Mochalov (Belarus)Open 32 1995 Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria)12 33 1996 
Alexander Beliavsky (Slovenia)12 34 1997 
Sergei Rublevsky (Russia)10 35 1998 Boris Gelfand (Belarus)10 36 1999 Loek van Wely (Netherlands)10 37 2000 
Boris Gelfand (Israel)10 38 2001 Vladimir Baklan (Ukraine)Open 39 2002 Alexander Zubarev (Ukraine)Open 40 2003 David Navara (Czech Republic)Open 41 2005 Paweł Czarnota (Poland)Open 42 2006 Robert Kempiński (Poland)10 43 2007 Bartosz Soćko (Poland)10 44 2008 Alexander Moiseenko (Ukraine)10 45 2009 Wojciech Moranda (Poland)Open 46 2010 Kacper Piorun (Poland)Open 47 2011 Aleksander Hnydiuk (Poland)10 49 2013 Wojciech Moranda (Poland)10 50 2014 Vadim Shishkin (Ukraine)10 51 2015 Tomasz Warakomski (Poland)10 52 2016 Marcin Szeląg (Poland)Open 53 2017 Tomasz Warakomski (Poland)Open 54 2018 Artur Frolov (Ukraine)Open 55 2019 Tomasz Warakomski (Poland)Open 56 2020 Sergei Ovsejevitsch (Ukraine)Open 57 2021 Kirill Shevchenko (Ukraine)
David Navara (Czech Republic)10 58 2022 Alexander Donchenko (Germany)
Dimitrios Mastrovasilis (Greece)10 59 2023 Grzegorz Nasuta (Poland)10 60 2024 Vincent Keymer (Germany)10 61 2025 
Nodirbek Yakubboev (Uzbekistan)10
2024
60th Akiba Rubinstein Memorial Grandmaster tournament, 17 August – 25 August 2024, Polanica-Zdrój, Poland, Category XIX (2686.8)[4] Player Rating 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Points H2H No. of wins SB 1 Vincent Keymer (Germany)2719 ½ 0 1 0 1 ½ 1 1 1 6 2 David Navara (Czechia)2674 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 5 2 3 
Sam Shankland (United States)2669 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 1 5 1½ 2 22.50 4 Vladimir Fedoseev (Slovenia)2687 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 5 1½ 2 20.00 5 Jan-Krzysztof Duda (Poland)2733 1 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 5 1 6 
Alexey Sarana (Serbia)2717 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 4½ ½ 1 7 Radoslaw Wojtaszek (Poland)2680 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 4½ ½ 0 8 
Pentala Harikrishna (India)2692 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 4 9 Andrei Volokitin (Ukraine)2667 0 ½ 1 0 0 0 ½ ½ 1 3½ 10 Mateusz Bartel (Poland)2630 0 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 2½
2025
61st Akiba Rubinstein Memorial Grandmaster tournament, 15 August – 24 August 2025, Polanica-Zdrój, Poland, Category XVI (2634)[5] Player Rating 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Points H2H No. of wins 1 Nodirbek Yakubboev (UZB)2663 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 6½ 2 Radosław Wojtaszek (POL)2651 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 6 3 Matthias Blübaum (GER)2660 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 5½ 4 David Navara (CZE)2650 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 5 5 Aravindh Chithambaram (IND)2723 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 1 1 0 4½ ½ 2 6 Igor Kovalenko (UKR)2676 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 4½ ½ 0 7 Mateusz Bartel (POL)2576 0 ½ ½ 0 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 4 8 
Michael Adams (ENG)2663 0 0 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 3 1½ 9 Paweł Teclaf (POL)2570 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 3 1 10 Jan Klimkowski (POL)2517 0 0 ½ 0 1 ½ ½ 0 ½ 3 ½
