POLANICA ZDROJ

Also named Memorial Akkiba Rubinstein, a chess festival organised at Polanica Zdroj in Poland since 1963. Until 2000, the festival included a strong Round Robin (up to category 17) and an Open. The winners were: 1963  Padevski, 1964 B. Parma and A. Filipowicz, 1965 E. Vasiukov, 1966 V. Smysłov, 1967 S. Furman, 6 1968 GM, Smysłov, 1969 L. Barczay, 8 1970 J. Smejkal, 1971 H. Pfleger, 10 1972 J. Smejkal, 1973 W. Schmidt, 12 1974 V. Karasiev, 1975 Y. Averbakh, 1976 G. Timoshchenko, 1977 V. Hort, 1978 M. Tseitlin, 1979 Y. Razuvaev, 1980 O. Romanishin, 1981 W. Schmidt, 1982 L. Vogt, 1983 V. Dydyshko, 1984 G. Zaichik, 1985 L. Lerner, 1986 P. Lukacs, 1987 U. Bönsch, 1988 A. Chernin, 1089 I. Novikov URS, 1991 J. Lautier, 1992 O. Romanishin, 1993 G. Sosonko, 1994 E. Mochalov, 1995 V. Topalov, 1996 A. Beliavsky, 1997 S. Rublevsky, 1998 B. Gelfand, 1999 L. Van Wely, 2000 B. Gelfand, 2001 V. Baklan UKR, 2002 IA. Zubariev, 2003 D. Navara , 2004 B. Heberla, 2005 P. Czarnota, 2006 R. Kempinski, 2007 B. Socko, 2008 A. Moiseenko, 2009 W. Moranda, 2010 K. Piorun, 2011 A. Hnydiuk, 2013 W. Moranda, 2014 V. Shishkin, 2015 T. Warakomski, 2016 M. Szeląg, 2017 T. Warakomski, 2018 A. Frolov.