Bartłomiej Macieja

Bartłomiej Macieja, Lublin 2010
Association	Poland
Born	October 4, 1977 Warsaw , Poland
title	International Master (1995) Grand Master (1998)
Current  Elo rating	2519 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2653 (January 2004)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Bartłomiej Macieja (born October 4, 1977 in Warsaw ) is a Polish chess player .

Life

Macieja began his chess career as a teenager. In 1992, at the age of 14, he played for the first time in the Polish national championship for adults. In the same year he won the bronze medal at the U14 World Youth Championship. In 1994 he was Polish youth champion U18. In 1996 he became international master , the title of chess grandmaster awarded him the world chess federation FIDE 1998. In 2002 Macieja became European champion in Batumi (Georgia) and in the same year defeated the Hungarian Judit Polgár in a rapid chess competition in Budapest with 5: 3. In 2004 and 2009 he was Polish national champion.

Macieja took part in the World Chess Cup twice. In his first participation in 2005 he failed in the first round to Sachar Jefymenko , while he reached the third round in 2007 by victories against Viktor Láznička and Teymur Rəcəbov , but failed there at K. Sasikiran .

He is secretary of the new professional player -Gewerkschaft Association of Chess Professionals (ACP). In February 2015, he is in fifth place in the Polish Elo ranking. Macieja is married to the Mexican Alejandra Guerrero Rodríguez , who holds the title of International Master of Women.

National team

Macieja took part in seven chess Olympiads with the Polish national team between 1998 and 2012, and in 2012 he achieved the second-best individual result of the reserve players in Istanbul . He played four times at European team championships , namely in 1999, 2003, 2009 and 2011 , and in 2003 he achieved the second-best rating of all participants.

societies

In the Polish team championship , Macieja played for KSz Polonia Warsaw from 1992 to 2012 , with whom he was Polish team champion twelve times ( 1996 , 1999 , 2000 , 2001 , 2002 , 2003 , 2004 , 2005 , 2006 , 2009 , 2011 and 2012 ), 2001 , Won the Polish Supercup in 2003 and 2004 and took part in the European Club Cup eight times, finishing second five times. In the German 1st Bundesliga he played for SV Wattenscheid from 2002 to 2012 , in the Czech Extraliga from 2000 to 2002 for the ŠK DP Holdia Prague , with which he was champion in 2001 , and from 2002 to 2006 for the ŠK Hagemann Opava ( from 2004 ŠK Lokomotiva Brno ), with whom he became champions in 2004 . In Italy he played for ASD CS R. Fischer Chieti , with whom he took part in the European Club Cup in 2008, and in the Spanish team championship in 2005 and 2007 for CA Alzira-Hilaturas Presencia .

Web links

Commons : Bartłomiej Macieja  - collection of images

• Official homepage ( Memento from May 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bartłomiej Macieja's biography on www.szachypolskie.pl (Polish)
2. ↑ Bartłomiej Macieja's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
3. ↑ Bartłomiej Macieja's results at the European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
4. ↑ Bartłomiej Macieja's results at Polish team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
5. ↑ Bartłomiej Macieja's results at Polish Supercups on olimpbase.org (English)
6. ↑ ^{a b} Bartłomiej Macieja's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
7. ↑ Bartłomiej Macieja's results in the Czech Extraliga on olimpbase.org (English)
8. ↑ Bartłomiej Macieja's results in Spanish team championships on olimpbase.org (English)