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

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# Year Winner #RR
1 1963   Nikola Padevsky (Bulgaria) 16
2 1964   Andrzej Filipowicz (Poland)
  Bruno Parma (Yugoslavia)
16
3 1965   Evgeni Vasiukov (USSR)
  Péter Dely (Hungary)
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   Péter Lukács (Hungary) 13
25 1987   Uwe Bönsch (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
49 2013   Wojciech Moranda (Poland) 10
50 2014   Vadim Shishkin (Ukraine) 10
51 2015   Tomasz Warakomski (Poland) 10
52 2016   Marcin Szeląg (Poland) Open
53 2017   Tomasz Warakomski (Poland) Open
54 2018   Artur Frolov (Ukraine) Open
55 2019   Tomasz Warakomski (Poland) Open
56 2020   Sergei Ovsejevitsch (Ukraine) Open
57 2021   Kirill Shevchenko (Ukraine)
  David Navara (Czech Republic)
10
58 2022   Alexander Donchenko (Germany)
  Dimitrios Mastrovasilis (Greece)
10
59 2023   Grzegorz Nasuta (Poland) 10
60 2024   Vincent Keymer (Germany) 10
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