The Rubinstein Memorial is an annual chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 tournament held in Polanica-Zdrój, Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 in honour of the chess legend Akiba Rubinstein

Akiba Rubinstein

Akiba Kiwelowicz Rubinstein was a famous Polish chess Grandmaster at the beginning of the 20th century. He was scheduled to play a match with Emanuel Lasker for the world championship in 1914, but it was cancelled because of the outbreak of World War I...

. 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

Round-robin tournament

A round-robin tournament is a competition "in which each contestant meets all other contestants in turn".-Terminology:...

, while the other tournaments are open Swiss system tournament

Swiss system tournament

A Swiss-system tournament is a commonly used type of tournament where players or teams need to be paired to face each other for several rounds of competition. This type of tournament was first used in a Zurich chess tournament in 1895, hence the name "Swiss system". The Swiss system is used when...

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Winners

#	Year	Winner	#RR
1	1963		16
2	1964		16
3	1965		14
4	1966		15
5	1967		16
6	1968		16
7	1969		16
8	1970		16
9	1971		16
10	1972		16
11	1973		14
12	1974		16
13	1975		16
14	1976		15
15	1977		18
16	1978		15
17	1979		16
18	1980		14
19	1981		14
20	1982		15
21	1983		15
22	1984		16
23	1985		16
24	1986		13
25	1987		13
26	1988		15
27	1989		16
28	1991		12
29	1992		12
30	1993		12
31	1994		Open
32	1995		12
33	1996		12
34	1997		10
35	1998		10
36	1999		10
37	2000		10
38	2001		Open
39	2002		Open
40	2003		Open
41	2005		Open
42	2006		10
43	2007		10
44	2008		10
45	2009		Open
46	2010		Open
47	2011		10

External links

• Rubinstein Memorial, homepage
• Complete results, games and crosstables 1963-2001