Lublin Grandmaster Tournament

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. The venue is the Crown Tribunal in Lublin.

Lublin Union Memorial 2009

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.

Position Participant Points 1 6 2-3 5.5 2-3 5.5 4 5 5 4.5 6-9 4 6-9 4 6-9 4 6-9 4 10 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. The tournament was won on Sonnenborn-Berger tiebreak by Bartłomiej Macieja, ahead of defending champion Grachev and Mateusz Bartel.

Player Country Rating Points 1Bartłomiej Macieja Poland2618 5,5 2Boris Grachev Russia2667 5,5 3Mateusz Bartel Poland2618 5,5 4Bartosz Soćko Poland2644 5 5Georg Meier Germany2638 5 6Marcin Dziuba Poland2576 4,5 7Vladimir Baklan Ukraine2633 4,5 8Sergei Tiviakov Netherlands2634 4 9Igor Kurnosov Russia2680 3,5 10Dariusz Swiercz Poland2501 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.

Player Country Rating Points 1Alexei Shirov Spain2709 5 2Boris Grachev Russia2669 4.5 3Sergei Zhigalko Belarus2679 4.5 4Michael Roiz Israel2660 4 5Krishnan Sasikiran India2676 4 6Bartosz Socko Poland2654 2 7Radoslav Wojtaszek Poland2721 2 8Evgeny Alekseev Russia2673 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. The Ukraine team won both 15.5-10.5 in the standard time control and 13.5-11.5 in the rapid. A two-game regular blitz match was held between the teams after the rapid section.

Classical time control: Ukraine 15.5 - Poland 10.5 No.PlayerRatingU1U2U3U4U5P1P2P3P4P5TotalU1Zahar Efimenko2689XXXXX00.50.5113U2Anton Korobov2678XXXXX111003U3Yuriy Kryvoruchko2676XXXXX10.50.50.502.5U4Sergey Fedorchuk2634XXXXX0.510.5114U5Yaroslav Zherebukh2632XXXXX10.50.5002P1Mateusz Bartel26771000.50XXXXX1.5P2Bartosz Soćko26350.500.500.5XXXXX1.5P3Kamil Mitoń26220.500.50.50.5XXXXX2P4Bartłomiej Macieja2614010.501XXXXX2.5P5Dariusz Świercz258501101XXXXX3 Rapid time control: Ukraine 13.5 - Poland 11.5 No.PlayerRatingU1U2U3U4U5P1P2P3P4P5TotalU1Zahar Efimenko2689XXXXX0.5100.50.52.5U2Anton Korobov2678XXXXX10.510.514U3Yuriy Kryvoruchko2676XXXXX0510.500.52.5U4Sergey Fedorchuk2634XXXXX0.5100.502U5Yaroslav Zherebukh2632XXXXX0501102.5P1Mateusz Bartel26770.500.50.50.5XXXXX2P2Bartosz Soćko263500.5001XXXXX1.5P3Kamil Mitoń2622100.510XXXXX2.5P4Bartłomiej Macieja26140.50.510.50XXXXX2.5P5Dariusz Świercz25850.500.511XXXXX3 Blitz match: Ukraine 5.5 - Poland 4.5 UkraineScorePolandZahar Efimenko0.5 - 1.5Mateusz BartelAnton Korobov1.5 - 0.5Bartosz SockoYuriy Kryvoruchko1.5 - 0.5Kamil MitonSergey Fedorchuk1.5 - 0.5Bartlomiej MaciejaYaroslav Zherebukh0.5 - 1.5Dariusz 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.

Player Country Rating12345678910 Points1Kirill Stupak Belarus2510XX0.50.5110101162Kamil Dragun Poland25230.5XX00.50.511110.563Daniel Semcesen Sweden24310.51XX0.50.50.5010.51 5,54Kacper Drozdowski Poland244100.50.5XX0.50.50.51115.55Daniel Sadzikowski Poland244800.50.50.5XX11010.5 56Jan-Krzysztof Duda Poland2539100.50.50XX10.50.5157Oleg Romanishin Ukraine25030010.500XX10.5148Jolanta Zawadzka Poland2391100010.50XX0.50.53.59Oleksandr Sulypa Ukraine2508000.5000.50.50.5XX0.52.510Monika Soćko Poland245800.5000.5000.50.5XX 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. 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.PlayerRatingU1U2U3U4P1P2P3P4TotalU1Alexander Moiseenko2707XXXX1110.53.5U2Alexander Areshchenko2701XXXX10.5113.5U3Zahar Efimenko2648XXXX010.50.52U4Mikhailo Oleksienko2618XXXX1110.53.5P1Radoslaw Wojtaszek27240010XXXX1P2Grzegorz Gajewski264100.500XXXX0.5P3Dariusz Swiercz2608000.50XXXX0.5P4Jan-Krzysztof Duda25870.500.50.5XXXX1.5

Rapid match: Ukraine 6 - 10 Poland

No.PlayerRatingU1U2U3U4P1P2P3P4TotalU1Alexander Moiseenko2699XXXX0.5000.51U2Alexander Areshchenko2684XXXX0.50000.5U3Zahar Efimenko2677XXXX0.510.50.52.5U4Mikhailo Oleksienko2578XXXX0.5100.52P1Radoslaw Wojtaszek27100.50.50.50.5XXXX2P2Grzegorz Gajewski26331100XXXX2P3Dariusz Swiercz2609110.51XXXX3.5P4Jan-Krzysztof Duda24670.510.50.5XXXX2.5

Lublin Union Memorial 2015 Similar to the previous edition it was held as a match format with Lublin facing Lviv, Ukraine. A two-round classical match was followed by a seven-round rapid contest between all twelve players and the addition of Polish player Marcin Maka. A round-robin blitz event completed the programme but with Ukrainian Roman Korman substituting Maka.

Lublin convincingly won the Classical match, Marcin Dziuba won the rapid and Pawel Stoma won the blitz.

Classical match C1LvivRtgRes.LublinRtg1Andriy Shankovsky23021-0Marcin Dziuba25642Vsevolod Rytenko22430-1Pawel Stoma23593Taras Panchyshyn21430-1Zbigniew Księski23484Roman Davymuka21401-0Piotr Polkowski21295Julia Savchuk18640-1Agata Topolan17466Andriy Prydun16780-1Weronika Frazcek1711

C2LublinRtgRes.LvivRtg1Marcin Dziuba25641-0Andriy Shankovsky23022Pawel Stoma23590-1Vsevolod Rytenko22433Zbigniew Księski23480.5-0.5Taras Panchyshyn21434Piotr Polkowski21291-0Roman Davymuka21405Agata Topolan17461-0Julia Savchuk18646Weronika Frazcek17111-0Andriy Prydun1678 Rapid tournament: 7 rounds PlayerCountryRatingScore1Marcin DziubaPOL25706.52Andriy ShankovskyUKR230253Vsevolod RytenkoUKR22174.54Zbigniew KsięskiPOL232845Taras PanchyshynUKR213446Pawel StomaPOL236347Marcin MakaPOL209848Roman DavymukaUKR208049Piotr PolkowskiPOL22973.510Andriy PrydunUKR1706311Julia SavchukUKR1837312Agata TopolanPOL1707213Weronika FraczekPOL16761.5 Blitz section BPlayerCountryRatingScore1Pawel StomaPOL236311.52Marcin DziubaPOL2557113Taras PanchyshynUKR212484Roman DavymukaUKR210085Piotr PolkowskiPOL223976Zbigniew KsięskiPOL232877Agata TopolanPOL18046.58Vsevolod RytenkoUKR22176.59Olexandr ProhorovUKR2127410Weronika FraczekPOL1639311Andriy PrydunUKR18252.512Julia SavchukUKR1888213Roman KormanUKR19521

Lublin Union Memorial 2016 The format was adjusted from previous editions, being held as a six-player Scheveningen match between Poland and a Europe team under classical time control. The Europe team won the six round event 7-5 in match points. NoPlayerFed.RatingE1E2E3P1P2P3TotalE1David Navara Czech Rep.2744XXX1.51.525E2Martyn Kravtsiv Ukraine2634XXX10.51.53E3Dimitrios Mastrovasilis Greece2606XXX010.51.5P1Kacper Piorun Poland26760.512XXX3.5P2Mateusz Bartel Poland26400.51.51XXX3P3Jacek Tomczak Poland258800.51.5XXX2

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