The 70th Polish Chess Championship 2013 and the 65th Polish Chess Championship for women 2013 are taking place on 13th-21st April at Sztygarka, Poland.
After five rounds have passed, six players share the lead on 3.5/5 points in the main event. This rather low leading score shows how evenly strong is this year’s field.
Rating favorite GM Grzegorz Gajewski fell on the first round against IM Jan-Krzysztof Duda, but was able to recover with three straight wins and a draw. He will play against 2011 Junior World Champion GM Dariusz Swiercz in the sixth round.
Gajewski is joined on the top by GM Kamil Miton, GM Kacper Piorun, GM Dariusz Swiercz, IM Kamil Dragun and three times champion GM Mateusz Bartel.
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Mateusz Bartel
Standings after 5 rounds:
| 1 | GM | Mitoń, Kamil | 2628 | 3,5 |
| 2 | GM | Świercz, Dariusz | 2622 | 3,5 |
| 3 | GM | Piorun, Kacper | 2529 | 3,5 |
| 4 | GM | Bartel, Mateusz | 2619 | 3,5 |
| 5 | IM | Dragun, Kamil | 2492 | 3,5 |
| 6 | GM | Gajewski, Grzegorz | 2653 | 3,5 |
| 7 | GM | Tomczak, Jacek | 2564 | 3 |
| 8 | GM | Kempinski, Robert | 2599 | 3 |
| 9 | GM | Socko, Bartosz | 2651 | 3 |
| 10 | IM | Tazbir, Marcin | 2555 | 3 |
| 11 | GM | Markowski, Tomasz | 2558 | 3 |
| 12 | GM | Grabarczyk, Miroslaw | 2452 | 2,5 |
| 13 | IM | Hnydiuk, Aleksander | 2400 | 2,5 |
| 14 | GM | Bulski, Krzysztof | 2549 | 2,5 |
| 15 | IM | Pakleza, Zbigniew | 2486 | 2,5 |
| 16 | GM | Jaracz, Pawel | 2548 | 2,5 |
| 17 | IM | Duda, Jan-Krzysztof | 2497 | 2 |
| 18 | GM | Macieja, Bartłomiej | 2608 | 2 |
| 19 | IM | Kanarek, Marcel | 2482 | 2 |
| 20 | IM | Szeląg, Marcin | 2484 | 2 |
| 21 | IM | Urban, Klaudiusz | 2467 | 2 |
| 22 | IM | Drozdowski, Kacper | 2432 | 1,5 |
| 23 | k | Gajek, Radosław | 2303 | 1,5 |
| 24 | IM | Czakon, Jakub | 2485 | 1,5 |
| 25 | IM | Orzech, Dominik | 2379 | 1 |
| 26 | FM | Licznerski, Łukasz | 2338 | 1 |
