Mateusz Bartel Wins Polish Championship
The 2012 Polish Chess Championships were held from 18-26 February in Warsaw.
Grandmasters Mateusz Bartel and Bartlomiej Macieja both finished the 9-round Swiss event with a score of 7 points, but Bartel (pictured) won his third consecutive national title on superior tie-breaks after a tie-break playoff.
Bartel is in fine form, having also won the recently completed Aeroflot Open in Moscow.
In the Polish Women's championship, IM Iweta Rajlich took the title with 6/9 in a 10-player round-robin event.
The final standings:
| Name | Elo | Pts | TB | |
| 1 | Bartel, Mateusz | 2658 | 7.0 | 37.5 |
| 2 | Macieja, Bartlomiej | 2617 | 7.0 | 36.5 |
| 3 | Miton, Kamil | 2623 | 6.5 | 33.5 |
| 4 | Wojtaszek, Radoslaw | 2706 | 6.0 | 36.5 |
| 5 | Moranda, Wojciech | 2568 | 5.5 | 31.5 |
| 6 | Socko, Bartosz | 2636 | 5.0 | 36.5 |
| 7 | Bulski, Krzysztof | 2523 | 5.0 | 36.0 |
| 8 | Kempinski, Robert | 2610 | 5.0 | 34.0 |
| 9 | Kuzmicz, Krystian | 2451 | 5.0 | 32.0 |
| 10 | Swiercz, Dariusz | 2583 | 5.0 | 31.0 |
| 11 | Markowski, Tomasz | 2612 | 4.5 | 33.0 |
| 12 | Hnydiuk, Aleksander | 2409 | 4.5 | 28.0 |
| 13 | Dragun, Kamil | 2420 | 4.5 | 26.5 |
| 14 | Gajewski, Grzegorz | 2616 | 4.0 | 34.5 |
| 15 | Mista, Aleksander | 2587 | 4.0 | 33.5 |
| 16 | Jaracz, Pawel | 2542 | 4.0 | 30.5 |
| 17 | Duda, Jan-Krzysztof | 2380 | 4.0 | 28.5 |
| 18 | Strzemiecki, Zbigniew | 2402 | 4.0 | 26.0 |
| 19 | Tomczak, Jacek | 2543 | 3.5 | 28.5 |
| 20 | Leniart, Arkadiusz | 2455 | 3.5 | 28.0 |
| 21 | Olszewski, Michal | 2539 | 3.5 | 27.0 |
| 22 | Sieciechowicz, Marcin | 2459 | 3.0 | 25.5 |
| 23 | Kolosowski, Mateusz | 2439 | 2.0 | 30.0 |
| 24 | Piorun, Kacper | 2520 | 2.0 | 27.0 |
