Rubinstein Memorial

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 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

External links

v t e Major recurring international chess tournaments
Strong chess tournaments Mini chess tournaments Round-robin chess tournaments
Major present (average rating > 2700; round-robin system generally)	Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (since 1973) Grand Chess Tour (since 2015) Grenke Chess Classic (since 2013) London Chess Classic (since 2009) Norway Chess (since 2013) Shamkir Chess (since 2014) Shenzhen Masters (since 2017) Sinquefield Cup (since 2013) Tata Steel Chess Tournament (since 1938) UzChess Cup (since 2024)
Other present (Swiss system generally)	Aeroflot Open (since 2002) Australasian Masters (since 1987) Biel Chess Festival (since 1968) Canadian Open (since 1956) Capablanca Memorial (since 1962) Cappelle-la-Grande Open (since 1985) Carlos Torre Repetto Memorial (since 1987) Chigorin Memorial (since 1909) Doeberl Cup (since 1963) Dubai Open (since 1999) Gibraltar Chess Festival (since 2003) Hastings International Chess Congress (since 1920) Hogeschool Zeeland Tournament (since 1995) Lublin Grandmaster Tournament (since 2009) Paul Keres Memorials (Tallinn, since 1969) (Vancouver, since 1975) Prague Chess Festival (since 2019) Qatar Masters Open (2014–2015, since 2023) Reykjavik Open (since 1964) Riga Technical University Open (since 2011) Rilton Cup (since 1971) Rubinstein Memorial (since 1963) South African Open (since 1962) U.S. Open (since 1900) TePe Sigeman & Co chess tournament (since 1993) Vidmar Memorial (since 1969) World Open (since 1973) Xtracon Chess Open (since 1979) Zurich Christmas Open (since 1977)
Recently cancelled (after 2000)	Alekhine Memorial (1956–2013, irregular) Acropolis (1968–2009) Aerosvit (2006–2008) Amber (1992–2011) Bilbao Chess Masters Final (2008–2016) Howard Staunton Memorial (2003–2009) Linares (1978–2010) Mar del Plata (1928–2001) Millionaire Chess (2014–2016) M-Tel Masters (2005–2009) North Sea Cup (1976–2008) Pearl Spring (2008–2010) Reggio Emilia (1947–2012) Tal Memorial (2006–2018) Zurich Chess Challenge (2012–2017)
Major past (19th–20th century)	American Chess Congress (1857–1923) Carl Schlechter Memorial (1923–1996) DSB Congress (1879–1932) General Government (1940–1944) IBM international (1961–1981) Konex (1977–1994) Leopold Trebitsch Memorial (1907–1938) Lone Pine International (1971–1981) Max Euwe Memorial (1987–1996) Monte Carlo (1901–1904; 1967–1969) Netanya (1961–1983) Palma de Mallorca (1965–1972) Phillips & Drew Kings (1980–1986) Piatigorsky Cup (1963–1966) San Sebastián (1911–1912) Silesian Chess Congress (1922–1939) Tilburg (1977–1998) Triberg (1914–1917)
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