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)	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	Peter Lukacs (Czechoslovakia)	13
25	1987	Uwe Boensch (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
48	2012
49	2013	Wojciech Moranda	9
50	2014	Vadim Shishkin
51	2015	Tomasz Warakomski	9

External links

Major recurring international chess tournaments

Major present	Bilbao Chess Masters Final Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting London Chess Classic Norway Chess Shamkir Chess Sinquefield Cup Tal Memorial Tata Steel Chess Tournament Zurich Chess Challenge

Other present	Aeroflot Open Australasian Masters Biel Chess Festival Canadian Open Chess Championship Capablanca Memorial Cappelle-la-Grande Open Carlos Torre Repetto Memorial Chigorin Memorial Doeberl Cup Gibraltar Chess Festival Hastings International Chess Congress Lublin Grandmaster Tournament Millionaire Chess Paul Keres Memorial Tournament Qatar Masters Open Reykjavik Open Rubinstein Memorial South African Open U.S. Open Chess Championship Vidmar Memorial Vlissingen chess tournament World Open Xtracon Chess Open Zurich Christmas Open

Recently cancelled	Alekhine Memorial (1956–2013) Acropolis International chess tournament (1968–2009) Aerosvit chess tournament (2006–2008) Amber chess tournament (1992–2011) Howard Staunton Memorial Tournament (2003–2009) Linares International Chess Tournament (1978–2010) Pearl Spring chess tournament (2008–2010) Reggio Emilia chess tournament (1947–2012)

Major past	American Chess Congress (1857–1923) Carl Schlechter Memorial Tournament (1923–1996) DSB Congress (1879–1932) General Government chess tournament (1940–1944) Grenke Chess Classic (2013–2015) IBM international chess tournament (1961–1981) Konex chess tournament (1977–1994) Leopold Trebitsch Memorial Tournament (1907–1938) Lone Pine International (1971–1981) M-Tel Masters (2005–2009) Mar del Plata chess tournament (1928–2001) Max Euwe Memorial Tournament (1987–1996) Monte Carlo chess tournament (1901–1904; 1967–1969) Netanya chess tournament (1961–1983) Phillips & Drew Kings (1980–1986) Piatigorsky Cup (1963–1966) San Sebastián chess tournament (1911–1912) Silesian Chess Congress (1922–1939) Tilburg chess tournament (1977–1998) Triberg chess tournament (1914–1917)

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