Wojciech Bartelski is a Polish

Poland

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 politician

Politician

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 and creator of the website

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 OlimpBase

OlimpBase

OlimpBase, is a website dedicated to the Chess Olympiads and other team chess events, created and run in Poland by Wojciech Bartelski.It is sub-titled The encyclopaedia of team chess, since it provides extensive and detailed data on all team chess events...

.

He graduated in 2002 in economics

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 from Warsaw University. He is a politician by profession, a right-wing member of Platforma Obywatelska

Civic Platform

Civic Platform , abbreviated to PO, is a centre-right, liberal conservative political party in Poland. It has been the major coalition partner in Poland's government since the 2007 general election, with party leader Donald Tusk as Prime Minister of Poland and Bronisław Komorowski as President...

. In 2006 he was elected to the Warsaw City Council

Warsaw City Council

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, but later gave up that seat to become the mayor

Mayor

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 of the Warsaw borough of Śródmieście

In the early 1990s he played chess

Chess

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as a member of the Warsaw Chess Club, but gave up competitive chess after founding OlimpBase, the world's biggest database of team chess events.

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