This article depicts many of the strongest international chess tournaments in history.

Introduction

The following list is not intended to be an exhaustive or definitive record of tournament chess, but takes as its foundation the collective opinion of chess experts and journalists (see references below) over the strongest tournaments in history.

Events that merit inclusion have been largely judged according to the strength (and relative strength in depth) of their participants. Other factors were taken into account, but have less influence; for example the quality of chess played, the closeness of the contest and the number of world top 10 and/or 'big reputation' players that took part. Inevitably, this introduces a degree of subjectivity, but the vast majority of tournaments in the list range from FIDE Category 10 to FIDE category 21.

The list comprises only regular open or invitational tournaments held at classical time controls with more than four players. Competitions such as World Championship

World Chess Championship

The World Chess Championship is played to determine the World Champion in the board game chess. Men and women of any age are eligible to contest this title....

 finals, Zonals, Interzonal

Interzonal

Interzonal chess tournaments were tournaments organized by FIDE, the World Chess Federation, and were a stage in the triennial World Chess Championship cycle.- Zonal tournaments :...

s, Candidates Tournament

Candidates Tournament

The Candidates Tournament is a chess tournament organized by the world chess federation FIDE since 1950, as the final contest to determine the challenger for the World Chess Championship...

s, City Championships and team competitions have been omitted for reasons of consistency and clarity. Of course, had they been included, then many of them, particularly the Soviet Championships, would have featured prominently.

The names of the tournament winners have been included next to the year and venue. Many of the tournaments have had books written about them (such as the Lake Hopatcong tournament book pictured) and whilst these will be mostly out of print, they are occasionally available at online auction sites, second-hand specialist book shops etc.

No attempt is made at comparing the relative strengths of tournaments in the list, as this is the subject of inconclusive debate amongst experts.

While events are listed in year order, they are not listed chronologically within the same year.

1850–1859

• 1851 London tournament
  London 1851 chess tournament
  right|thumb|[[Adolf Anderssen]] won both the London International Tournament and the rival London Club Tournament.London 1851 was the first international chess tournament. The tournament was conceived and organised by English player Howard Staunton, and marked the first time that the best chess...
  
   Anderssen
  Adolf Anderssen
  Karl Ernst Adolf Anderssen was a German chess master. He is considered to have been the world's leading chess player in the 1850s and 1860s...
  
  
• 1853 Berlin Dufresne
  Jean Dufresne
  Jean Dufresne was a German chess player and chess composer. He was a student of Adolf Anderssen, and lost the "Evergreen game" to him in 1852. Dufresne was an unsuccessful novelist under the anagrammatic pseudonym E. S...
  
  
• 1855 London Zytogorski
  Adolf Zytogorski
  Adolf Żytogórski was a Polish-British chess master.Born in Poland, he was a political refugee after the collapse of the Polish-Russian War in 1830–1831 . He emigrated to England....
  
  
• 1856 New York Marache
  Napoleon Marache
  Napoleon Marache was born in France and moved to the United States at about age 12. He learned the game of chess around 1844, and immediately became a devotee. He began composing chess problems and writing about chess the following year. In the mid-19th century, he was both one of America's first...
  
  
• 1856 Paris Clerc
  Albert Clerc
  Albert Clerc was a French chess master.-Chess career:He won at Paris 1856, tied for 9-10th at Paris 1878 , took 2nd, behind Samuel Rosenthal, at Paris 1880 , took 4th at Paris 1881 Albert Clerc (January 1830, Besançon – June 1918, Saint-Denis-en-Val) was a French chess master.-Chess career:He won...
  
  
• 1856 Berlin Wolff
  Balduin Wolff
  Balduin Wolff was a German painter of the Romantic period, and a chess player.Born in Schmiedeberg im Riesengebirge , Silesia , he graduated from a gymnasium of Hirschberg, and studied at Berlin University of the Arts and Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (Hermann) Balduin Wolff (15 July 1819 – 21...
  
  
• 1856 London Falkbeer
  Ernst Falkbeer
  Ernst Karl Falkbeer was an Austrian chess master and journalist.-Life and chess career:Born in Brno, Bohemia, Falkbeer moved to Vienna to study law, but ended up becoming a journalist...
  
  
• 1857 Manchester Löwenthal
  Johann Löwenthal
  Johann Jacob Löwenthal was a professional chess master.Löwenthal was born in Budapest, the son of a Jewish merchant. He was educated at the gymnasium of his native city. In 1846, he won a match against Carl Hamppe in Vienna...
  
  
• 1857 New York (American Chess Congress
  American Chess Congress
  The American Chess Congress was a series of chess tournaments held in the United States, a predecessor to the current U.S. Chess Championship. It had nine editions, the first played in 1857 and the last in 1923.-First American Chess Congress :...
  
  ) Morphy
  Paul Morphy
  Paul Charles Morphy was an American chess player. He is considered to have been the greatest chess master of his era and an unofficial World Chess Champion. He was a chess prodigy...
  
  
• 1858 San Francisco Franklin
• 1858 Birmingham Löwenthal
• 1859 New York Perrin
• 1859 Vienna Hamppe
  Carl Hamppe
  Carl Hamppe was a senior government official in Vienna as well as a Swiss–Austrian chess master and theoretician....
  
  

1860–1869

• 1860 Cambridge Kolisch
  Ignác Kolisch
  Baron Ignatz von Kolisch , also Baron Ignaz von Kolisch or báró Kolisch Ignác , was a merchant, journalist and chess master with Jewish roots....
  
  
• 1860 Vienna Hamppe
• 1860/61 New York Leonard
  James A. Leonard
  James A. Leonard was a young American chess master, who grew up as a son of poor Irish immigrants in New York City. He learned to play chess at age 16 or 17...
  
  
• 1861 Leeds Stanley
• 1861 Bristol Paulsen L.
  Louis Paulsen
  Louis Paulsen was a German chess player.In 1860s and 1870s, he was among the top five players in the world. He was a younger brother of Wilfried Paulsen....
  
  
• 1861 Vienna Steinitz
  Wilhelm Steinitz
  Wilhelm Steinitz was an Austrian and then American chess player and the first undisputed world chess champion from 1886 to 1894. From the 1870s onwards, commentators have debated whether Steinitz was effectively the champion earlier...
  
  
• 1862 London tournament
  London 1862 chess tournament
  An international chess tournament was held in London, during the second British world exhibition, in 1862. Fourteen players participated in the main chess event from 16 June to 28 June 1862. They played at the St. George's Club, St. James's Club and Divan. All-play-all and time controls were...
  
   Anderssen
• 1862 Manchester Blackburne
  Joseph Henry Blackburne
  Joseph Henry Blackburne , nicknamed "The Black Death", dominated British chess during the latter part of the 19th century. He learned the game at the relatively late age of 18 but quickly became a strong player and went on to develop a professional chess career that spanned over 50 years...
  
  
• 1862 St. Petersburg Kolisch
• 1862 Düsseldorf Lange
  Max Lange
  Max Lange was a German chess player and composer.In 1858–1864, he was an editor of the Deutsche Schachzeitung . He was a founder of Westdeutscher Schachbund , and an organizer of the 9th DSB–Congress at Leipzig 1894...
  
  
• 1863 Düsseldorf Lange
• 1864 Düsseldorf Lange
• 1865 Dublin Steinitz
• 1866 London De Vere
  Cecil Valentine De Vere
  Cecil Valentine De Vere was the pseudonym of Cecil Valentine Brown, the winner of the first official British Chess Championship, in 1866....
  
  
• 1866 London Steinitz
• 1867 Dundee Neumann G.
  Gustav Neumann
  Gustav Richard Ludwig Neumann was a German chess master.Neumann was born in Gleiwitz in the Prussian Province of Silesia. In matches he lost to Louis Paulsen at Leipzig 1864, and defeated Celso Golmayo Zúpide , and Simon Winawer at Paris 1867...
  
  
• 1867 Paris tournament
  Paris 1867 chess tournament
  World exhibitions became a new phenomenon in the West in the nineteenth century. Scientific and technical progress were shown. Ten World Fairs were organised during the second half of the nineteenth century. Seven times an international chess tournament was part of the event...
  
   Kolisch
• 1868 Warsaw Winawer
  Szymon Winawer
  Szymon Abramowicz Winawer , born in Warsaw, Poland, was a leading chess player who won the German Chess Championship in 1883...
  
  
• 1868 Aachen Lange, Anderssen
• 1868 Hamburg Lange
• 1868/69 London Blackburne, De Vere
• 1869 Hamburg Anderssen, Paulsen L.
• 1869 Barmen Anderssen

1870–1879

• 1870 Baden-Baden tournament
  Baden-Baden 1870 chess tournament
  The 1870 chess tournament in Baden-Baden can be regarded as the first strong tournament. In comparison with London 1851 chess tournament, London 1862 and Paris 1867, three main changes were made: a) first chess clocks used , b) draws counted as half points, c) only top international players were...
  
   Anderssen
• 1870 Graz Berger
  Johann Berger
  Johann Nepomuk Berger was an Austrian chess master, theorist, endgame study composer, author and editor.In September 1870, he won the first tournament in the Austro-Hungarian Empire at Graz...
  
  
• 1870 London Wisker
  John Wisker
  John Wisker was an English chess player and journalist. By 1870, he was one of the world's ten best chess players, and the second-best English-born player, behind only Joseph Henry Blackburne.Wisker moved to London in 1866 to become a reporter for the City Press and befriended Howard Staunton...
  
  , Burn
  Amos Burn
  Amos Burn was an English chess player, one of the world's leading players at the end of the 19th century, and a chess writer....
  
  
• 1871 Cleveland (American Chess Congress
  American Chess Congress
  The American Chess Congress was a series of chess tournaments held in the United States, a predecessor to the current U.S. Chess Championship. It had nine editions, the first played in 1857 and the last in 1923.-First American Chess Congress :...
  
  ) Mackenzie
  George Henry Mackenzie
  George Henry Mackenzie was a Scottish–American chess master....
  
  
• 1871 Krefeld Paulsen L., Anderssen, Minckwitz
  Johannes Minckwitz
  Johannes Minckwitz was a German chess player and author.His best achievement was 2nd place, behind Adolf Anderssen, at Barmen 1869...
  
  
• 1871 Bad Ems Mieses S.
  Samuel Mieses
  Samuel Mieses was a German chess master.Uncle of Jacques Mieses, he studied medicine at the University of Breslau, and was one of chess pupils of Adolf Anderssen...
  
  
• 1871 Wiesbaden Göring
  Carl Göring
  Carl Theodor Göring was a German professor, philosopher and chess master.In 1870, he took 3rd in the first Austrian Chess Federation Congress, held in Graz...
  
  
• 1871 Leipzig Anderssen, Mieses S.
• 1872 Altona Anderssen
• 1872 London Wisker, De Vere
• 1872 London Steinitz
• 1873 Vienna tournament
  Vienna 1873 chess tournament
  The Vienna 1873 chess tournament was a side event of the world exhibition of 1873 .-Background:...
  
   Steinitz, Blackburne
• 1874 Chicago (American Chess Congress
  American Chess Congress
  The American Chess Congress was a series of chess tournaments held in the United States, a predecessor to the current U.S. Chess Championship. It had nine editions, the first played in 1857 and the last in 1923.-First American Chess Congress :...
  
  ) Mackenzie
• 1876 Leipzig Anderssen
• 1876 London Blackburne
• 1876 Philadelphia (American Chess Congress
  American Chess Congress
  The American Chess Congress was a series of chess tournaments held in the United States, a predecessor to the current U.S. Chess Championship. It had nine editions, the first played in 1857 and the last in 1923.-First American Chess Congress :...
  
  ) Mason
  James Mason (chess player)
  James Mason was a famous chess player and writer. He was born in Kilkenny in Ireland. His original name is unknown: he was adopted as a child and only took the name James Mason when he and his family moved to the United States in 1861...
  
  
• 1876 New York Mackenzie
• 1876 New York Mason
• 1876 St. Petersburg Ascharin
  Andreas Ascharin
  Andreas Ascharin was a Baltic German-Russian chess master.Ascharin's father was Russian, his mother was from a Baltic German family. He read law in Dorpat . Between 1875 and 1879, he worked in Saint Petersburg as a journalist for the St. Petersburger Zeitung and the St. Petersburger Herold...
  
  
• 1877 St. Petersburg Chigorin
  Mikhail Chigorin
  Mikhail Ivanovich Chigorin also was a leading Russian chess player...
  
  
• 1877 Leipzig Paulsen L.
• 1877 Cologne Zukertort
  Johannes Zukertort
  Johannes Hermann Zukertort was a leading chess master of German-Polish-Jewish origin. He was one of the leading world players for most of the 1870s and 1880s, and lost to Wilhelm Steinitz in the World Chess Championship 1886, which is generally seen as the first World Chess Championship match, he...
  
  
• 1878 Paris tournament
  Paris 1878 chess tournament
  The revival of France after the Franco-Prussian War was demonstrated by a world exhibition. Paris was a city of light for the first time. A great chess tournament took place in the exhibition hall from 17 June to 31 July 1878. The participation of George Henry Mackenzie and James Mason made it the...
  
   Zukertort, Winawer
• 1878 Frankfurt Paulsen L.
• 1879 St. Petersburg Chigorin, Alapin
• 1879 Leipzig Englisch
  Berthold Englisch
  Berthold Englisch was a leading Austrian chess master.Englisch was born in Czech Silesia into a Jewish family. He earned his living as a stock-market agent....
  
  

1880–1889

• 1880 Wiesbaden Blackburne, Englisch, Schwarz A.
  Adolf Schwarz
  Adolf Schwarz was an Austria-Hungarian chess master.He took 10th in the Vienna 1873 chess tournament . In 1878, he took 2nd, behind Louis Paulsen, in Frankfurt. In 1879, he took 3rd in Leipzig...
  
  
• 1880 Graz Schwarz A., Weiss
  Max Weiss
  Miksa Weisz was an Austrian chess player born in the Kingdom of Hungary.Weiss was born in Sereď. Moving to Vienna, he studied mathematics and physics at the university, and later taught those subjects....
  
  , Minckwitz
• 1880 Brauschweig Paulsen L.
• 1880 Gouda Bird
• 1880 Moscow Solovtsov
  Alexander Solovtsov
  Alexander Vladimirovich Solovtsov was a Russian chess master.He tied for 3rd-4th and drew a match for the third place with Emanuel Schiffers at Sankt Petersburg 1878/79. Solovtsov took part in the correspondence match between the Moscow and St...
  
  
• 1880 Paris Rosenthal
  Samuel Rosenthal
  Samuel Rosenthal was a Jewish chess master. Chess historian Edward Winter wrote, "He dedicated his life to chess-playing, touring, writing, teaching and analysing...
  
  
• 1880 New York (American Chess Congress
  American Chess Congress
  The American Chess Congress was a series of chess tournaments held in the United States, a predecessor to the current U.S. Chess Championship. It had nine editions, the first played in 1857 and the last in 1923.-First American Chess Congress :...
  
  ) Mackenzie
• 1881 Paris Chamier
  Edward Chamier
  Edward Chamier was a French chess master.He was born into an English branch of a French Huguenot family . Chamier won at Paris 1874 and at Paris 1881...
  
  
• 1881 Berlin tournament
  Berlin 1881 chess tournament
  The Deutschen Schachbund had been founded in Leipzig on July 18, 1877. When the next meeting took place in the Schützenhaus, Leipzig on July 15, 1879, sixty-two clubs had become member of the federation. Hofrat Dr. Rudolf von Gottschall became Chairman and Hermann Zwanzig the General Secretary...
  
   Blackburne
• 1882 Vienna tournament
  Vienna 1882 chess tournament
  The second international Vienna 1882 chess tournament was one of the longest and strongest chess tournaments ever played. According to the unofficial Chessmetrics ratings, the tournament was the strongest tournament in history, on the basis that nine of the ten top players in the world...
  
   Steinitz, Winawer
• 1883 London tournament
  London 1883 chess tournament
  The London 1883 chess tournament was a strong chess tournament among most of the leading players of the day. It was won convincingly by Johannes Zukertort ahead of Wilhelm Steinitz . Remarkably, Zukertort was already assured of victory with three rounds to go, having scored an astonishing 22/23...
  
   Zukertort
• 1883 London Bardeleben
  Curt von Bardeleben
  Curt von Bardeleben was a Count and a German chess master who committed suicide by jumping out of a window in 1924. His life and death were the basis for that of the main character in the novel The Defense by Vladimir Nabokov, which was made into the movie The Luzhin Defence...
  
  
• 1883 Nuremberg Winawer
• 1883/84 Warsaw Żabiński
  Józef Zabinski
  Józef Żabiński was a Polish chess master and problemist.Born in Warsaw , he was educated in a high school gymnasium and graduated in Law Faculty at the Imperial University of Warsaw in 1886.Żabiński won the 2nd Warsaw City Chess Championship in 1883/84...
  
  
• 1885 Hamburg Gunsberg
  Isidor Gunsberg
  Isidor Arthur Gunsberg began his career as the player operating the remote-controlled chess automaton Mephisto, but later became a chess professional....
  
  
• 1885 London Gunsberg
• 1885 Hereford Blackburne
• 1886 London Blackburne
• 1886 Nottingham Burn
• 1886 Belfast Pollock
  William Pollock (chess player)
  William Henry Krause Pollock was an English chess master, and a surgeon.Pollock was born in Cheltenham, England, the son of the Rev. William J. Pollock. He was educated at Clifton College. He studied for the medical profession in Dublin, Ireland from 1880–82, at which time he was a member of the...
  
  
• 1887 Frankfurt Mackenzie
• 1887 London Burn, Gunsberg
• 1888 Bradford Gunsberg
• 1888 Nuremberg Tarrasch
  Siegbert Tarrasch
  Siegbert Tarrasch was one of the strongest chess players and most influential chess teachers of the late 19th century and early 20th century....
  
  
• 1888 Leipzig Riemann
  Fritz Riemann
  Fritz Riemann was a German chess master.Born in Silesia , he was a chess pupil of Adolf Anderssen in Breslau. In 1876, he won a match against Arnold Schottländer there.In 1879, he took 5th in Leipzig , and took 2nd in Wesselburen...
  
  , Bardeleben
• 1889 Berlin Scheve
  Theodor von Scheve
  Theodor von Scheve was a German chess master and writer.Scheve was born in Cosel in the Prussian Province of Silesia....
  
  
• 1889 London Bird
• 1889 Dublin Burn
• 1889 Amsterdam Burn
• 1889 New York (American Chess Congress
  American Chess Congress
  The American Chess Congress was a series of chess tournaments held in the United States, a predecessor to the current U.S. Chess Championship. It had nine editions, the first played in 1857 and the last in 1923.-First American Chess Congress :...
  
  ) Weiss, Chigorin
• 1889 Breslau Tarrasch

1890–1899

• 1890 Manchester Tarrasch
• 1890 Vienna Weiss
• 1890 Graz Makovetz
  Gyula Makovetz
  Gyula Makovetz was a Hungarian journalist and chess player.He edited the chess magazine Budapesti Sakkszemle from 1889 to 1894. Makovetz was 1st, ahead of Johann Hermann Bauer and Emanuel Lasker, at Graz 1890...
  
  
• 1890 Berlin Lasker Em.
  Emanuel Lasker
  Emanuel Lasker was a German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher who was World Chess Champion for 27 years...
  
  , Lasker B.
  Berthold Lasker
  Berthold Lasker was a German chess master.Born Jonathan Berthold Lasker, he was married to the poet and playwright Else Lasker-Schüler and was an elder brother of Emanuel Lasker....
  
  
• 1891 Berlin Caro
  Horatio Caro
  Horatio Caro was an English chess master.Caro was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, but spent most of his chess career in Berlin, Germany. He played several matches. In 1892, he drew with Curt von Bardeleben , lost to Szymon Winawer . In 1897, he lost to Jacques Mieses . In 1903, he drew...
  
  
• 1892 Dresden Tarrasch
• 1892 London Lasker Em.
• 1892 Paris Goetz
  Alphonse Goetz
  Alphonse Goetz was a French chess master.Born in Strasbourg, France, he was a refugee after the Franco-Prussian War and the annexation of Alsace–Lorraine to the German Empire....
  
  
• 1893 Kiel Walbrodt, Bardeleben
• 1893 London Blackburne
• 1893 New York Lasker Em.
• 1893/94 Vienna Schwarz J.
  Jacques Schwarz
  Jacques Schwarz was an Austrian chess master.Born in Moravia, he tied for 5-6th at Graz 1880 . In 1881, he tied for 7-8th in Berlin . In 1883, he took 9th in Nuremberg . In 1889, he took 3rd in Dessau...
  
  
• 1894 New York Steinitz
• 1894 Leipzig Tarrasch
• 1895 Hastings tournament
  Hastings 1895 chess tournament
  The Hastings 1895 chess tournament was a round-robin tournament of chess conducted in Hastings, England from August 5 to September 2, 1895.Hastings 1895 was arguably the strongest tournament in history at the time it occurred. All of the strongest players of the generation competed...
  
   Pillsbury
  Harry Nelson Pillsbury
  Harry Nelson Pillsbury , was a leading chess player. At age 22, he won one of the strongest tournaments of the time , but his illness and early death prevented him from challenging for the World Chess Championship.- Early life :Pillsbury was born in Somerville, Massachusetts, moved to New York City...
  
  
• 1895 Vienna Marco
  Georg Marco
  Georg Marco was a Romanian chess player.He was born in Chernivtsi , Bukovina...
  
  
• 1895/96 Vienna Schlechter
  Carl Schlechter
  Carl Schlechter was a leading Austrian chess master and theoretician at the turn of the 20th century. He is best known for drawing a World Chess Championship match with Emanuel Lasker.-Early life:...
  
  , Weiss
• 1896 Budapest Chigorin, Charousek
• 1896 Nuremberg tournament
  Nuremberg 1896 chess tournament
  The tournament at Nürnberg 1896 should have become 10. Deutschen Schachbund Kongreß , but the local chess club took over the organisation and included no minor groups...
  
   Lasker Em.
• 1896 Vienna Janowski
  Dawid Janowski
  Dawid Markelowicz Janowski was a leading Polish chess master and subsequent French citizen....
  
  
• 1897 Berlin tournament
  Berlin 1897 chess tournament
  The Internationales Turnier Berlin 1897 celebrated seventy years of the Berliner Schachgesellschaft. Twenty great chess masters started but Curt von Bardeleben had to withdraw after a short draw. They played in the Architektenhaus from September 13 to October 4, 1897. Eventually the event became a...
  
   Charousek
• 1897 Berlin Bardeleben
• 1897 Vienna Schlechter
• 1897/98 Vienna Marco
• 1898 Cologne Burn
• 1898 Vienna tournament
  Vienna 1898 chess tournament
  The tournament celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria's accession to the throne of Austria-Hungary. Main organiser was Baron Albert Freiherr von Rothschild who also financed the Vienna tournaments of 1873, 1882, 1903, and 1908. The players visited his Heugasse...
  
   Tarrasch, Pillsbury
• 1898 Grove Spring Lipschütz
  Samuel Lipschütz
  Samuel or Solomon Lipschütz was a chess player and author. He was chess champion of the United States from 1889 to 1890 and again from 1891 to 1894....
  
  
• 1899 London tournament
  London 1899 chess tournament
  The London 1899 chess tournament was without a doubt one of the very strongest tournaments ever held on British soil. Almost every great master of the day was present including the past and reigning world champions...
  
   Lasker Em.
• 1899 Moscow Chigorin
• 1899–1900 Vienna Maróczy
  Géza Maróczy
  Géza Maróczy was a leading Hungarian chess Grandmaster, one of the best players in the world in his time. He was also a practicing engineer.-Early career:...
  
  

1900–1909

• 1900 Paris tournament
  Paris 1900 chess tournament
  The Paris 1900 chess tournament was an event held in conjunction with the Exposition Universelle , one of the world's most notable fairs or exhibitions held during the second half of the nineteenth century and designated a "World Exposition" by the Bureau of International Expositions...
  
   Lasker Em.
• 1900 London Teichmann
  Richard Teichmann
  Richard Teichmann was a German chess master.He was known as "Richard the Fifth" because he often finished in fifth place in tournaments. But in Karlsbad 1911, he scored a convincing win, crushing Akiba Rubinstein and Carl Schlechter with the same line of the Ruy Lopez...
  
  
• 1900 Munich Maroczy, Pillsbury, Schlechter
• 1900 Vienna Schlechter
• 1900 New York Lipschütz
• 1900/01 Moscow Chigorin
• 1901 Monte Carlo tournament
  Monte Carlo chess tournament
  The Monte Carlo chess tournament was established in 1901. There were a series of very strong tournaments held in Monte Carlo, from 1901 to 1904, and again after a long break from 1967 to 1969.-1901:...
  
   Janowski
• 1901 Buffalo Pillsbury
• 1901 Kiev Lowtzky
  Moishe Lowtzky
  -Biography:He was born into a Jewish family in Ukraine. In 1903, Lowtzky tied for 6-7th with Eugene Znosko-Borovsky in Kiev . The event was won by Mikhail Chigorin. In 1903, he took 4th in Dresden . In 1904, he tied for 2nd-3rd in Coburg . In 1910, he tied for 1st with Thoenes in Hamburg...
  
  
• 1901 Odessa Eisenberg
  Louis Eisenberg
  Louis R. Eisenberg was a Ukrainian-American chess master.He was born in Odessa in 1876. After graduating from Nicholas College, he pursued journalism until, in 1901-1902, he won a chess tournament at Odessa 1901, and journeyed to Monte Carlo to participate in the international masters’ tournament...
  
  
• 1902 Monte Carlo tournament
  Monte Carlo chess tournament
  The Monte Carlo chess tournament was established in 1901. There were a series of very strong tournaments held in Monte Carlo, from 1901 to 1904, and again after a long break from 1967 to 1969.-1901:...
  
   Maroczy
• 1902 Hanover Janowski
• 1903 Monte Carlo tournament
  Monte Carlo chess tournament
  The Monte Carlo chess tournament was established in 1901. There were a series of very strong tournaments held in Monte Carlo, from 1901 to 1904, and again after a long break from 1967 to 1969.-1901:...
  
   Tarrasch
• 1903 Hilversum Leonhardt
• 1903 Kiev tournament
  Kiev 1903 chess tournament
  The 3rd All-Russian Masters' Tournament took place in the rooms of the Kiev Chess Society in the Popov Building at No. 29 Kreshchatyk in Kiev on September 1–26, 1903...
  
   Chigorin
• 1903 Vienna Chigorin
• 1904 Cambridge Springs Marshall
• 1904 St. Louis (American Chess Congress
  American Chess Congress
  The American Chess Congress was a series of chess tournaments held in the United States, a predecessor to the current U.S. Chess Championship. It had nine editions, the first played in 1857 and the last in 1923.-First American Chess Congress :...
  
  ) Marshall
• 1904 London Napier
  William Ewart Napier
  William Ewart Napier was an American chess master of English birth.- Life :...
  
  
• 1904 Monte Carlo tournament
  Monte Carlo chess tournament
  The Monte Carlo chess tournament was established in 1901. There were a series of very strong tournaments held in Monte Carlo, from 1901 to 1904, and again after a long break from 1967 to 1969.-1901:...
  
   Maroczy
• 1904 Coburg Bardeleben, Schlechter, Swiderski
  Rudolf Swiderski
  Rudolf Swiderski was a German chess master.He took 6th at Eisenach 1896 , took 2nd at Annaberg 1897, tied for 7-8th at Berlin 1897, and tied for 3-6th in Amsterdam. He made his mark in 1900 when he won 1st place at the Munich Hauptturnier...
  
  
• 1904/05 Vienna Schlechter
• 1905 Ostend Maroczy
• 1905 Barmen Janowski, Maroczy
• 1905 Scheveningen Marshall
• 1905/06 St. Petersburg Salwe
  Gersz Salwe
  Gersz Salwe was a Polish chess player.-Biography:Salwe was born into a Jewish family in Warsaw ....
  
  
• 1906 Kiev Duz-Khotimirsky
• 1906 Ostend Schlechter
• 1906 Stockholm Bernstein
  Ossip Bernstein
  Ossip Samoilovich Bernstein was a Russian chess grandmaster and a financial lawyer.-Biography:...
  
  , Schlechter
• 1906 Nuremberg Marshall
• 1906 Munich Nimzowitsch
  Aron Nimzowitsch
  Aron Nimzowitsch was a Russian-born Danish unofficial chess grandmaster and a very influential chess writer...
  
  
• 1906 Györ Balla
  Zoltán von Balla
  Zoltán von Balla was a Hungarian chess champion.In 1904, he took 11th in Coburg . In 1905, he took 10th in Vienna. In 1906, he won 1st Hungarian Championship in Györ. He shared the title with Zsigmond Barász at Budapest 1911...
  
  
• 1907 Székesfehérvár Forgács
  Leó Forgács
  Leó Forgács was a Hungarian chess player.-Biography:...
  
  
• 1907 Berlin Teichmann
• 1907 Vienna Mieses J.
  Jacques Mieses
  ----Jacques Mieses was a German-born Jewish chess Grandmaster and writer. He became a naturalized British citizen after World War II.p258-Chess career:...
  
  
• 1907 Copenhagen Leonhardt
• 1907 Ostend tournament
  Ostend 1907 chess tournament
  The tournament was divided into two sections: the Championship Tournament and the Masters' Tournament. The first section was for players who had previously won an international tournament. The Championship Tournament took place in the Casino of Ostend from 16 May to 14 June 1907...
  
   Tarrasch
• 1907 Ostend (B) tournament
  Ostend 1907 chess tournament
  The tournament was divided into two sections: the Championship Tournament and the Masters' Tournament. The first section was for players who had previously won an international tournament. The Championship Tournament took place in the Casino of Ostend from 16 May to 14 June 1907...
  
   Bernstein, 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...
  
  
• 1907 Carlsbad tournament
  Carlsbad 1907 chess tournament
  The first international chess tournament in Carlsbad was held in the magnificent Kaiserbad . Twenty one great masters, under the direction of Viktor Tietz, played in the Kurhaus Hotel Imperial from August 20 to September 17, 1907.The results and standings:...
  
   Rubinstein
• 1907/08 Łódź Rubinstein
• 1908 Vienna tournament
  Vienna 1908 chess tournament
  The Internationales Schachturnier Wien 1908 was held in honour of the sixtieth anniversary of Franz Joseph I of Austria’s elevation as monarch to the Austria-Hungary Empire. Twenty great masters played at the Wiener Schach-Club in Vienna, from March 23 to April 17, 1908.The results and standings:...
  
   Maroczy, Schlechter, Duras
  Oldrich Duras
  Oldřich Duras was a leading Czech chess master of the early 20th century...
  
  
• 1908 Prague tournament
  Prague 1908 chess tournament
  The first International Prague Chess Tournament was held in honour of the sixtieth anniversary of Franz Joseph I of Austria's elevation as monarch to the Austria-Hungary Empire. Twenty great masters played in the pavilion of the Chamber of Commerce and Trade in Prague, from May 17 to June 13,...
  
   Duras, Schlechter
• 1908 Düsseldorf Marshall
• 1908 Odessa List
  Paul List
  Paul M. List was a Ukrainian–German–British chess player.He was born in Odessa, Ukraine . He had a separate chess career in each of the 3 countries he lived in – Russia, Germany and the United Kingdom....
  
  
• 1909 Berlin Cohn E.
  Erich Cohn
  Erich Cohn was a German chess master.He won or tied for 1st in several tournaments in Berlin . In strong tournaments, he tied for 11-12th at Berlin 1903 . He took 10th at Coburg 1904 . In 1905, he took 5th in Barmen...
  
  , Teichmann
• 1909 St. Petersburg tournament Lasker Em., Rubinstein
• 1909 Vilna Rubinstein
• 1909 Stockholm Spielmann
  Rudolf Spielmann
  Rudolf Spielmann was an Austrian-Jewish chess player of the romantic school, and chess writer.-Career:He was a lawyer but never worked as one....
  
  
• 1909 Gothenburg Vidmar
  Milan Vidmar
  Milan Vidmar was a Slovene electrical engineer, chess player, chess theorist, philosopher, and writer. He was a specialist in power transformers and transmission of electric current.- Biography :...
  
  
• 1909/10 Vienna Réti
  Richard Réti
  Réti composed one of the most famous chess studies, shown in this diagram. It was published in Ostrauer Morgenzeitung 4 December 1921. It seems impossible for the white king to catch the advanced black pawn, while the white pawn can be easily stopped by the black king...
  
  

1910–1919

• 1910 Hamburg tournament
  Hamburg 1910 chess tournament
  The Hamburg 1910 chess tournament was organized by Walter Robinow, the President of the Hamburg Chess Club .-Masters Tournament:Eighteen masters started but Franz Jakob withdrew after round 6....
  
   Schlechter
• 1910 Berlin Teichmann
• 1910 Warsaw Rotlewi
  Gersz Rotlewi
  Gersz Rotlewi was a Polish chess master.-Biography:In 1906, Rotlewi tied for 5-6th in Lodz...
  
  , Rubinstein
• 1910 Odessa Verlinsky
  Boris Verlinsky
  Boris Markovich Verlinsky was a Ukrainian-Russian International Master of chess. He was one of the top Soviet players of the 1920s, and was in the top 20 in the world in 1926, clearly of Grandmaster strength at that time...
  
  
• 1911 Cologne Lowtzky
• 1911 San Remo Fahrni
  Hans Fahrni
  Hans Fahrni was a Swiss chess master.In 1892 he was joint Swiss chess champion ....
  
  
• 1911 New York Marshall
• 1911 Moscow Bernstein
• 1911 Kiev Bogatyrchuk
  Fedor Bogatyrchuk
  Fedir Parfenovych Bohatyrchuk was a Ukrainian-Canadian International Master of chess, and an...
  
  
• 1911 San Sebastian tournament
  San Sebastian chess tournament
  -San Sebastian 1911:The tournament was held from February 20 to March 17, 1911. The event was organized by Jacques Mieses, who insisted that all of the expenses of the masters were paid....
  
    Capablanca
• 1911 Carlsbad tournament
  Carlsbad 1911 chess tournament
  Carlsbad is known in the whole chess world thanks to four international tournaments, held in 1907, 1911, 1923 and 1929....
  
   Teichmann
• 1912 San Sebastian tournament
  San Sebastian chess tournament
  -San Sebastian 1911:The tournament was held from February 20 to March 17, 1911. The event was organized by Jacques Mieses, who insisted that all of the expenses of the masters were paid....
  
    Rubinstein
• 1912 Bad Pistyan Rubinstein
• 1912 Breslau Rubinstein, Duras
• 1912 Warsaw Rubinstein
• 1912 Vilna Rubinstein
• 1912 Łódź Bogoljubov
• 1912 Abbazia Spielmann
• 1912 Budapest Vidmar
• 1912 Budapest Marshall, Schlechter
• 1912 Temesvar Breyer
  Gyula Breyer
  Gyula Breyer was a Hungarian chess player. He was a leading member of the hypermodern school of chess theory, which favored controlling the center with pressure from the flanks....
  
  
• 1912 Stockholm Alekhine
  Alexander Alekhine
  Alexander Alexandrovich Alekhine was the fourth World Chess Champion. He is often considered one of the greatest chess players ever.By the age of twenty-two, he was already among the strongest chess players in the world. During the 1920s, he won most of the tournaments in which he played...
  
  
• 1913 Budapest Spielmann
• 1913 Havana Marshall
• 1913 New York Capablanca
• 1913 Scheveningen Alekhine
• 1913 Vienna Schlechter
• 1913/14 St. Petersburg Alekhine, Nimzowitsch
• 1914 St. Petersburg tournament
  St. Petersburg 1914 chess tournament
  The tournament celebrated the tenth anniversary of the St. Petersburg Chess Society. The president of the organizing committee was Peter Petrovich Saburov. Members of the committee were: Boris Maliutin, Peter Alexandrovich Saburov, and O. Sossnitzky...
  
   Lasker Em.
• 1914 New York Lasker Ed.
  Edward Lasker
  Edward Lasker was a leading German-American chess and Go player. He was awarded the title of International Master of chess by FIDE. Lasker was an engineer by profession, and an author.-Background:...
  
  
• 1914 Vienna Schlechter
• 1914 Baden bei Wien Spielmann
• 1914 Lyon Goetz
• 1914 Mannheim tournament
  Mannheim 1914 chess tournament
  The 19th DSB Congress , comprising several tournaments, began on20 July 1914 in Mannheim. Germany declared war on Russia and on France , Britain joining in the next day...
  
   Alekhine
• 1914 Baden Baden Flamberg
  Alexander Flamberg
  Alexander Flamberg was a Polish chess master.-Biography:Alexander Davidovich Flamberg born in Warsaw , spent his early years in England, where he learnt to play chess. After return to Warsaw, he became one of the strongest Polish chess players. In 1900, he took 2nd, behind Salomon Langleben, in...
  
  
• 1915 Triberg tournament
  Triberg chess tournament
  The Triberg chess tournament constitutes a series of chess tournaments, held in Triberg im Schwarzwald during World War I.Eleven players from the Russian Empire, who participated in the interrupted Mannheim 1914 chess tournament, were interned in Rastatt, Germany, after the declaration of war...
  
   Bogoljubov
• 1915 Vienna Schlechter
• 1915 New York Capablanca
• 1915/16 Moscow Alekhine
• 1916 New York Chajes
  Oscar Chajes
  Oscar Chajes was an Austrian, then American chess player.-Biography:Chajes was Jewish and was born in Brody, Galicia, in what is now Ukraine. In 1909, he won in Excelsior, Minnesota . In 1910, he took 2nd in Chicago. In January/February 1911, he tied for 3rd-4th in New York...
  
  , Janowski
• 1916 New York Capablanca
• 1916 Copenhagen Johner P.
  Paul Johner
  Paul Johner was a Swiss chess master.A noted musician , elder brother of Hans Johner, he won the Swiss Championship in 1907 , 1908 , 1925, 1928 , 1930 and 1932 .He played in many international tournaments...
  
  
• 1916 Warsaw Rubinstein, Lowtzky
• 1916/17 Łódź Rubinstein
• 1917 Christiania Nyholm
  Gustaf Nyholm
  Gustaf Nyholm was a Swedish chess master.He was the first Swedish Champion , and a Nordic Champion in 1917....
  
  
• 1917 Vienna Schlechter
• 1917 Warsaw Rubinstein
• 1917 Paris Aurbach
  Arnold Aurbach
  Arnold Aurbach was a Polish–French chess master.At the beginning of the 20th century, he left Warsaw for Paris...
  
  
• 1917 Lexington Lasker Ed.
• 1917/18 Vienna Vidmar
• 1918 Kaschau Reti
• 1918 Breslau John W.
  Walter John
  Walter John , was a German chess master.John was born at Thorn , Poland . He took 2nd, behind Curt von Bardeleben in Café Kerkau, and took 4th at Berlin 1902. He won at Hanover 1902...
  
  
• 1918 Rye Beach Kupchik
  Abraham Kupchik
  Abraham Kupchik was an American chess master.Abraham Kupchik was born into a Jewish family in Brest . His family emigrated to the USA in 1903....
  
  
• 1918 Chicago Kostić
• 1918 New York Capablanca
• 1919 Hastings Capablanca

1920–1929

• 1920 Amsterdam Reti
• 1920 Göteborg Reti
• 1920 Berlin Breyer
• 1920 Berlin Sämisch
  Friedrich Sämisch
  Friedrich Sämisch was a German chess grandmaster .-Main results:* 2nd at Berlin 1920...
  
  
• 1920 Memphis Lasker Ed.
• 1920 Moscow Alekhine
• 1921 Triberg Alekhine
• 1921 Budapest Alekhine
• 1921 The Hague Alekhine
• 1921 Atlantic City (American Chess Congress
  American Chess Congress
  The American Chess Congress was a series of chess tournaments held in the United States, a predecessor to the current U.S. Chess Championship. It had nine editions, the first played in 1857 and the last in 1923.-First American Chess Congress :...
  
  ) Janowski
• 1921 Hamburg Post
• 1921/22 Hastings Kostić
• 1921/22 Montevideo Grau
  Roberto Grau
  Roberto Gabriel Grau was an Argentine chess master.Grau played in many Argentine championships. In 1921/22, he tied for 3rd-4th . In 1922, he tied for 2nd-3rd . In 1923/24, he tied for 2nd-4th...
  
  
• 1922 Bad Pistyan Bogoljubov
• 1922 London Capablanca
• 1922 Hastings Alekhine
• 1922 Vienna Rubinstein
• 1922 Weston-super-Mare Blake
  Joseph Henry Blake (chess player)
  Joseph Henry Blake was an English chess master.Blake won many tournaments played in England toward the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. He won at Stamford 1887, Oxford 1891 , Brighton 1892, Cambridge 1893, and Salisbury 1898...
  
  
• 1922 Louisville Factor
  Samuel Factor
  Samuel Factor was a Polish-American chess master.-Biography:During World War I, Faktor was one of the strongest chess players in Łódź . In 1916, he lost a match to Hirszbajn . In 1917, he took 3rd, behind Gersz Salwe, and Teodor Regedziński. In 1917/18, he took 2nd, behind Regedziński...
  
  
• 1922 Bad Oeynhausen Post
• 1922 Teplitz-Schönau Reti, Spielmann
• 1922/23 Hastings Rubinstein
• 1923 Carlsbad tournament
  Carlsbad 1923 chess tournament
  The third international chess tournament was held in the health resort of Carlsbad , Czechoslovakia...
  
   Alekhine, Bogoljubov, Maroczy
• 1923 Vienna Tartakower
  Savielly Tartakower
  Ksawery Tartakower was a leading Polish and French chess Grandmaster. He was also a leading chess journalist of the 1920s and 30s...
  
  
• 1923 Frankfurt Grünfeld
  Ernst Grünfeld
  ----Ernst Franz Grünfeld , an Austrian grandmaster and writer specializing in opening theory, was for a brief period after the First World War one of the strongest chess players in the world....
  
  
• 1923 Margate Grünfeld
• 1923 Moravska Ostrava tournament Lasker Em.
• 1923 Copenhagen Nimzowitsch
• 1923 Lake Hopatcong (American Chess Congress
  American Chess Congress
  The American Chess Congress was a series of chess tournaments held in the United States, a predecessor to the current U.S. Chess Championship. It had nine editions, the first played in 1857 and the last in 1923.-First American Chess Congress :...
  
  ) Marshall, Kupchik
• 1923 Liverpool Mieses J.
• 1923/24 Hastings Euwe
  Max Euwe
  Machgielis Euwe was a Dutch chess Grandmaster, mathematician, and author. He was the fifth player to become World Chess Champion . Euwe also served as President of FIDE, the World Chess Federation, from 1970 to 1978.- Early years :Euwe was born in Watergraafsmeer, near Amsterdam...
  
  
• 1924 New York tournament
  New York 1924 chess tournament
  New York 1924 was an elite chess tournament held in the Alamac Hotel in New York City from March 6 to April 18, 1924. It was organized by the Manhattan Chess Club. The competitors included world champion José Raúl Capablanca and his predecessor Emanuel Lasker. Nine other top players from Europe...
  
   Lasker Em.
• 1924 Copenhagen Nimzowitsch
• 1924 Meran Grünfeld
• 1924 Paris Matisons
  Hermanis Matisons
  Hermanis Matisons , , was a Latvian chess player and one of world's most highly regarded chess masters in the early 1930s. He was also a leading endgame composer...
  
  
• 1924/25 Hastings Maroczy, Tartakower
• 1925 Debrecen Kmoch
  Hans Kmoch
  Johann "Hans" Joseph Kmoch was an Austrian-Dutch-American chess International Master , International Arbiter , and a chess journalist and author, for which he is best known....
  
  
• 1925 Baden-Baden Alekhine
• 1925 Paris Alekhine
• 1925 Breslau Bogoljubov
• 1925 Marienbad Rubinstein, Nimzowitsch
• 1925 Moscow tournament
  Moscow 1925 chess tournament
  This international super-tournament, organised by Nikolai Krylenko, was held in Moscow, the Soviet Union, from 10 November to 8 December 1925. It was the world's first state-sponsored chess tournament. There were eleven foreign stars and ten Soviet masters. World champion José Raúl Capablanca and...
  
   Bogoljubov
• 1925/26 Hastings Alekhine, Vidmar
• 1926 Budapest Grünfeld, Monticelli
  Mario Monticelli
  Mario Monticelli was an Italian chess grandmaster.In 1922, he won in Rome . In 1925, he won in Bologna. In 1926, Monticelli tied for 1st with Ernst Grünfeld in Budapest. In 1929, he took 11th in Budapest . In 1929, he tied for 4-5th in Barcelona...
  
  
• 1926 Bardejov Matisons, Tartakower
• 1926 Ghent Tartakower
• 1926 Semmering Spielmann
• 1926 Lake Hopatcong Capablanca
• 1926 Chicago Marshall
• 1926 Scarborough Alekhine
• 1926 Dresden Nimzowitsch
• 1926 Berlin Bogoljubov
• 1926 Munich Przepiórka
  Dawid Przepiórka
  Dawid Przepiórka was a prominent Polish chess player of the early twentieth century.Dawid Przepiórka was born 22 December 1880 in Warsaw, Poland , to a family of wealthy landowners and entrepreneurs of Jewish extraction...
  
  
• 1926 Meran Colle
  Edgard Colle
  Edgard Colle was a Belgian chess master. He scored excellent results in major international tournaments, including first at Amsterdam 1926, ahead of Savielly Tartakower and future world champion Max Euwe; first at Meran 1926, ahead of Esteban Canal; and first at Scarborough 1930, ahead of Maróczy...
  
  
• 1926/27 Hastings Tartakower
• 1927 Bad Niendorf Tartakower, Nimzowitsch
• 1927 London Nimzowitsch, Tartakower
• 1927 Kecskemét Alekhine
• 1927 Magdeburg Spielmann
• 1927 Bad Homburg Bogoljubov
• 1927 Scarborough Colle
• 1927 New York tournament
  New York 1927 chess tournament
  The New York 1927 chess tournament was an elite chess tournament held in New York City from February 19 to March 23, 1927. Play was held in the magnificent surroundings of the Trade Banquet Hall of the Hotel, Manhattan Square. Julius Finn was the president of the event. The prizes were on lavish...
  
   Capablanca
• 1927/28 Hastings Tartakower
• 1928 Berlin Nimzowitsch
• 1928 Budapest Capablanca
• 1928 Mar del Plata Grau
• 1928 Scarborough Winter
  William Winter (chess player)
  William Winter was a British chess player. He won the British Open Chess Championship in 1934 and the British Chess Championship in 1935 and 1936. An acolyte of Siegbert Tarrasch, his sound, strategic play enabled him to defeat a number of the world's top players, including David Bronstein, Aron...
  
  
• 1928 Brno Sämisch, Reti
• 1928 Vienna Reti
• 1928 Giessen Reti
• 1928 Dortmund Sämisch
• 1928 Bad Kissingen Bogoljubov
• 1928 Berlin Capablanca
• 1928 The Hague Euwe
• 1928/29 Hastings Colle, Marshall, Takacs
  Sándor Takács
  Sándor Takács was a Hungarian chess master, born Károly Sydlauer in Miskolc, Hungary.- Career :In 1922, he took 13th in Vienna . In 1924, he took 6th in Meran . In 1925, Takacs won, ahead of Lajos Steiner, in Budapest...
  
  
• 1929 Göteborg Stahlberg
  Gideon Ståhlberg
  Anders Gideon Tom Ståhlberg was a Swedish chess grandmaster.He won the Swedish Chess Championship of 1927, became Nordic champion in 1929, and held it until 1939....
  
  
• 1929 Duisburg Ahues
  Carl Ahues
  Carl Oscar Ahues was a German chess International Master.He was Berlin champion in 1910. He was German Champion in 1929 winning the 26th DSB Congress in Duisburg. In 1930, he took 6th in San Remo , tied for 4-5th in Scarborough , and tied for 3-5th in Liege...
  
  
• 1929 Carlsbad tournament
  Carlsbad 1929 chess tournament
  The fourth international Carlsbad tournament was held in the Kurhaus Hotel Imperial. Twenty two great masters, under the direction of Viktor Tietz, played in the resort Karlsbad from July 30 to August 28, 1929. Only the world champion Alexander Alekhine did not partake but during the event he...
  
   Nimzowitsch
• 1929 Rogaska Slatina Rubinstein
• 1929 Budapest Capablanca
• 1929 Barcelona Capablanca
• 1929 Ramsgate Capablanca
• 1929/30 Hastings Capablanca

1930–1939

• 1930 San Remo tournament
  San Remo 1930 chess tournament
  San Remo 1930 was the first international chess tournament held in the famous San Remo casino. Sixteen chess masters from Europe and the Americas, including the World Champion, played a round robin tournament from 16 January to 4 February 1930...
  
    Alekhine
• 1930 Frankfurt Nimzowitsch
• 1930 Scarborough Colle
• 1930 Stockholm Kashdan
  Isaac Kashdan
  Isaac Kashdan was an American chess grandmaster and chess writer. Kashdan was one of the world's best players in the late 1920s and early 1930s. He was twice U.S. Open champion...
  
  
• 1930 Stockholm Andersen
• 1930 Swinemünde Sämisch
• 1930 Breslau Foerder
  Yosef Porath
  -Biography:Yosef Porath was born Heinz Josef Foerder in Germany. He took the name Yosef Porath in Israel. In 1933, he lost his job after the Nazis assumed power in Germany, and moved to Riga. In 1934 he emigrated to Palestine...
  
  
• 1930 Liege Tartakower
• 1930 Nice Tartakower
• 1930/31 Hastings Euwe
• 1931 Bled tournament
  Bled 1931 chess tournament
  Milan Vidmar proposed the major chess tournament that became Bled 1931. His idea was well received in both Ljubljana and the nearby health resort of Bled...
  
   Alekhine
• 1931 New York tournament
  New York 1931 chess tournament
  At the New York 1931 chess tournament José Raúl Capablanca won with of 10 points from 11 games, 1½ points ahead of Isaac Kashdan ....
  
   Capablanca
• 1931 Swinemünde Bogoljubov, Rödl
  Ludwig Rödl
  Ludwig Roedl was a German chess master.In 1927, he twice tied for 1st-2nd in Bamberg and in Munich. In 1928, he tied for 7-8th in Kissingen . In 1929, he tied for 1st-3rd in Duisburg...
  
  
• 1931/32 Hastings Flohr
  Salo Flohr
  Salomon Mikhailovich Flohr was a leading Czech and later Soviet chess grandmaster of the mid-20th century, who became a national hero in Czechoslovakia during the 1930s. His name was used to sell many of the luxury products of the time, including Salo Flohr cigarettes, slippers and eau-de-cologne...
  
  
• 1932 Bad Ems Kieninger
  Georg Kieninger
  Georg Kieninger was a German chess player and International Master .An avid cigar smoker, Kieninger was nicknamed "Eisernen Schorsch" because of his fighting style. He won the German Chess Championship in 1937, 1940, and 1947...
  
  
• 1932 Sliac Flohr, Vidmar
• 1932 London Alekhine
• 1932 Bern Alekhine
• 1932 Pasadena Alekhine
• 1932/33 Hastings Flohr
• 1933 Bad Aachen Bogoljubov
• 1933 Scheveningen Flohr
• 1933 Paris Alekhine
• 1933/34 Hastings Flohr
• 1934 Zurich Alekhine
• 1934 Copenhagen Nimzowitsch
• 1934 Bad Niendorf Stahlberg
• 1934 Budapest Eliskases
  Erich Eliskases
  Erich Gottlieb Eliskases was a chess Grandmaster of the 1930s and 1940s, who represented Austria, Germany and Argentina in international competition....
  
  
• 1934 Budapest (Ujpest) Lilienthal
  Andor Lilienthal
  Andor Arnoldovich Lilienthal was a Hungarian and Soviet chess Grandmaster. In his long career, he played against ten male and female world champions, beating Emanuel Lasker, José Raúl Capablanca, Alexander Alekhine, Max Euwe, Mikhail Botvinnik, Vasily Smyslov, and Vera Menchik...
  
  
• 1934 Leningrad Botvinnik
  Mikhail Botvinnik
  Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik, Ph.D. was a Soviet and Russian International Grandmaster and three-time World Chess Champion. Working as an electrical engineer and computer scientist at the same time, he was one of the very few famous chess players who achieved distinction in another career while...
  
  
• 1934 Syracuse Reshevsky
  Samuel Reshevsky
  Samuel "Sammy" Herman Reshevsky was a famous chess prodigy and later a leading American chess Grandmaster...
  
  
• 1934/35 Hastings Euwe, Flohr, Thomas
  George Alan Thomas
  Sir George Alan Thomas, Bart. was a British badminton, tennis and chess player. He was twice British Chess Champion and a 21-time All-England Badminton champion. He also played in the semi-finals of the men's tennis doubles at Wimbledon in 1911...
  
  
• 1935 Barcelona Flohr, Koltanowski
  George Koltanowski
  George Koltanowski was a Belgian-born American chess player, promoter, and writer. He was informally known as "Kolty". Koltanowski set the world's blindfold record on 20 September 1937, in Edinburgh, by playing 34 chess games simultaneously while blindfolded, making headline news around the world...
  
  
• 1935 Bad Nauheim Bogoljubov
• 1935 Łódź Tartakower
• 1935 Örebro Alekhine
• 1935 Moscow Botvinnik, Flohr
• 1935 Helsinki Frydman P.
  Paulino Frydman
  Paulino Frydman was a Polish chess master.-Biography:...
  
  
• 1935 Tel Aviv Blass
  Abram Blass
  Abram Blass was a Polish-Israeli chess master.Born in Łomża , he moved to the USA, staying from 1911 to 1924. After returning to Poland, he lived in Warsaw. In 1924/25, Blass tied for 3rd-5th in Warsaw . In 1926, he tied for 1st with Paulin Frydman in Warsaw...
  
  
• 1935 Margate Reshevsky
• 1935/36 Hastings Fine
  Reuben Fine
  Reuben Fine was one of the strongest chess players in the world from the early 1930s through the 1940s, an International Grandmaster, psychologist, university professor, and author of many books on both chess and psychology.Fine won five medals in three chess Olympiads. Fine won the U.S...
  
  
• 1936 Mar del Plata Pleci
  Isaias Pleci
  Isaías Pléci was an Argentine chess master.-Chess tournaments:Pléci was the Argentine Champion in 1929 to 1930. He won at Buenos Aires 1928 and lost a match for the title to Roberto Grau . later, he won in 1929 and won a match against Grau in 1930...
  
  
• 1936 Helsinki Lundin
  Erik Lundin
  Erik Lundin a Swedish chess master.In 1928, he won in Oslo, took 5th in Helsingborg, tied for 2nd-3rd in Stockholm . In 1929, he took 2nd in Göteborg , and took 3rd in Västerås...
  
  
• 1936 Margate Flohr
• 1936 Bad Nauheim Alekhine, Keres
  Paul Keres
  Paul Keres , was an Estonian chess grandmaster, and a renowned chess writer. He was among the world's top players from the mid-1930s to the mid-1960s....
  
  
• 1936 Zaandvoort Fine
• 1936 Amsterdam Euwe, Fine
• 1936 Dresden Alekhine
• 1936 Moscow Capablanca
• 1936 Nottingham tournament
  Nottingham 1936 chess tournament
  Nottingham 1936, was a 15-player round robin chess tournament held August 10-28 at the University of Nottingham. It was one of the strongest of all time....
  
   Botvinnik, Capablanca
• 1936 Podebrady Flohr
• 1936/37 Hastings Alekhine
• 1937 Kemeri tournament
  Kemeri 1937 chess tournament
  Kemeri 1937 was a chess tournament held in the resort town Ķemeri, Latvia, at the Gulf of Riga from 16 June to 8 July 1937. There were three co-winners: Samuel Reshevsky, Salo Flohr and Vladimir Petrov...
  
   Flohr, Petrovs
  Vladimirs Petrovs
  Vladimirs Petrovs or Vladimir Petrov was a Latvian chess master.He was born in Riga, Latvia. Though he learned the game of chess relatively late, at age thirteen, Petrovs made rapid progress. By 1926, at age 19, he won the Riga Championship and finish third in the national championship...
  
  , Reshevsky
• 1937 Bad Elster Bogoljubov, Rellstab
  Ludwig Rellstab (chess player)
  Ludwig Rellstab was a German chess master.He was German Champion, winning at Bad Oeynhausen 1942. He took 8th in the European Championship at Munich 1942 . In 1943, he took 6th in Salzburg...
  
  
• 1937 Moscow Fine
• 1937 Leningrad Fine
• 1937 Pärnu Schmidt P.
  Paul Felix Schmidt
  Paul Felix Schmidt was an Estonian chess International Master, chess writer, and chemist.- Biography :In June 1935, he won, ahead of Paul Keres, at Tallinn. In May 1936, he drew a match against Keres at Pärnu. In 1936, he won the 8th Estonian Championship at Tallinn. In December 1936, he placed...
  
  
• 1937 Margate Fine, Keres
• 1937 Ostend Fine, Grob
  Henri Grob
  Henri Grob was a Swiss chess master.Grob represented Switzerland in Chess Olympiads.* In 1927, at fourth board in 1st Chess Olympiad in London ;...
  
  , Keres
• 1937 Semmering - Baden Keres
• 1937 Rogaska Slatina Najdorf
  Miguel Najdorf
  Miguel Najdorf was a Polish-born Argentine chess grandmaster of Jewish origin, famous for his Najdorf Variation....
  
  
• 1937 Zoppot Rellstab
• 1937 São Paulo Flores
  Rodrigo Flores
  Rodrigo Flores Álvarez was a Chilean engineer and chess master.-Chess:Flores was Chilean Champion eleven times: 1931, 1935, 1938, 1941, 1944, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1956, 1961, and 1965....
  
  
• 1937/38 Hastings Reshevsky
• 1937/38 Vienna Steiner L.
  Lajos Steiner
  Lajos Steiner was a Hungarian–born Australian chess master.Steiner was one of four children of Bernat Steiner, a mathematics teacher, and his wife Cecilia,, and a younger brother of Endre Steiner...
  
  
• 1938 Montevideo (Carrasco) tournament
  Montevideo 1938 chess tournament
  The eighth South American Chess Championship took place in Montevideo, Uruguay, from 7th to 25th of March 1938. The event was held in an elegant seaside resort Carrasco, one of the most expensive neighborhoods in Montevideo, located on the city's southeast coast.The results and standings:...
  
   Alekhine
• 1938 Łódź Pirc
  Vasja Pirc
  Vasja Pirc was a leading Slovenian chess player. His name is most familiar to contemporary players as the originator of the hypermodern Pirc Defense...
  
  
• 1938 Margate Alekhine
• 1938 Bad Elster Bogoljubov
• 1938 Bad Harzburg Pirc
• 1938 Noordwijk Eliskases
• 1938 Ljubljana Kostić
• 1938 AVRO tournament
  AVRO tournament
  The AVRO tournament was a chess tournament held in the Netherlands in 1938, sponsored by the Dutch broadcasting company AVRO. The event was a double round-robin tournament...
  
   (Amsterdam, etc.) Keres, Fine
• 1938/39 Hastings Szabó
  László Szabó (chess player)
  László Szabó was a prominent Hungarian Grandmaster of chess.Born in Budapest, he burst onto the international chess scene in 1935, at the unusually young age of 18...
  
  
• 1939 Leningrad - Moscow Flohr
• 1939 Kemeri - Riga Flohr
• 1939 Margate Keres
• 1939 Stuttgart Bogoljubov
• 1939 Jerusalem Czerniak
  Moshe Czerniak
  -Biography:In 1930 Moshe Czerniak took ninth at Warsaw in an event won by Paulino Frydman. In 1934 Czerniak emigrated from Poland to Palestine . In April 1935, he tied for 7th–8th in Tel Aviv . He was Palestinian Champion in 1936 and 1938. In April 1939, he played in the First Lasker Chess Club...
  
  
• 1939 Bad Elster Eliskases
• 1939 Bad Harzburg Eliskases
• 1939 New York Fine
• 1939 Oslo Stahlberg, Lundin
• 1939 Bournemouth Euwe
• 1939 Rosario Petrovs
• 1939 Montevideo Alekhine
• 1939 Buenos Aires tournament
  Buenos Aires 1939 chess tournament
  The event was held in Buenos Aires, immediately after the 8th Chess Olympiad, from August 21 to September 19, 1939. The tournament was played between 2nd and 19 October 1939 at the Círculo de Ajedrez, the main chess club in the city. Play took place at the club's long-time premises at Bartolomé...
  
   Najdorf, Keres

1940–1949

• 1940 Havana Kashdan
• 1940 New York Reshevsky
• 1940 Dallas Fine
• 1940 Budapest Euwe
• 1940 Berlin Bogoljubov
• 1940 Kraków - Krynica - Warsaw (GG tournament) Bogoljubov, Kohler
  Anton Kohler
  Anton Kohler , a German chess player from Munich.In 1937, he shared 3rd in Stadtprozelten / Main, and took 12th in Bad Oeynhausen . In 1938, he won in Heilbronn, and tied for 8-9th in Bad Oeynhausen . In 1938/39, he tied for 1st-3rd in Karlsruhe...
  
  
• 1941 Mar del Plata tournament
  Mar del Plata 1941 chess tournament
  The fourth Mar del Plata chess tournament was held in the city of Mar del Plata, Argentina, in March 1941. The first three Mar del Plata international tournaments were regarded as the third, fourth, and sixth South American Chess Championship , respectively...
  
   Stahlberg
• 1941 Buenos Aires Stahlberg, Najdorf
• 1941 Buenos Aires Frydman P.
• 1941 Montevideo Eliskases
• 1941 Sao Pedro Eliskases, Guimard
  Carlos Guimard
  Carlos Enrique Guimard was an Argentine chess Grandmaster. He was born in Santiago del Estero.-Biography:Guimard was thrice Argentine Champion. In 1936, he won the ARG-ch 15 Mayor, and in 1937 a match for the title against Roberto Grau . In 1937/38, he won a match against Luis Piazzini...
  
  
• 1941 Hamilton Fine
• 1941 New York Fine
• 1941 Trencianske Teplice Foltys
  Jan Foltys
  Jan Foltys , was a Czech chess International Master.-Biography:...
  
  
• 1941 Munich tournament
  Munich 1941 chess tournament
  The second Europaturnier was held in Munich in 8-14 September 1941. The event was organised by Ehrhardt Post, the Chief Executive of Nazi Grossdeutscher Schachbund. Max Euwe had declined the invitation for München 1941 due to his "occupational obligations", as manager of a groceries business...
  
   Stoltz
  Gösta Stoltz
  -Biography:Stoltz played a few matches with strong chess masters. In 1926, he lost to Mikhail Botvinnik at a team match Stockholm – Leningrad in Stockholm. In 1927, he drew with Allan Nilsson in Göteborg . In 1930, he won against Isaac Kashdan in Stockholm. In 1930, he lost to Rudolf Spielmann ...
  
  
• 1941 Kraków - Warsaw (GG tournament) Alekhine, Schmidt P.
• 1942 Mar del Plata Najdorf
• 1942 Sverdlovsk Ragozin
  Viacheslav Ragozin
  Viacheslav Vasilyevich Ragozin was a Soviet chess Grandmaster, an International Arbiter of chess, and a World Correspondence Chess Champion. He was also a chess writer and editor.- Biography :...
  
  
• 1942 Kuibyshev Boleslavsky
  Isaac Boleslavsky
  Isaac Yefremovich Boleslavsky was a Soviet–Jewish chess Grandmaster.-Early career:Boleslavsky taught himself chess at age 9...
  
  
• 1942 Moscow Bondarevsky
  Igor Bondarevsky
  Igor Zakharovich Bondarevsky was a Soviet Russian chess Grandmaster in both over-the-board and correspondence chess, an International Arbiter, trainer, and chess author...
  
  
• 1942 Salzburg tournament
  Salzburg 1942 chess tournament
  The main organiser of Salzburg 1942, Ehrhardt Post, the Chief Executive of Nazi Grossdeutscher Schachbund, intended to bring together the six strongest players of Germany, the occupied and neutral European countries; world champion Alexander Alekhine, former champion Max Euwe, challenger Paul...
  
   Alekhine
• 1942 Munich (European Individual Chess Championship) Alekhine
• 1942 Warsaw - Lublin - Kraków (GG tournament) Alekhine
• 1942 Prague Alekhine, Junge
  Klaus Junge
  Klaus Junge was one of the youngest German chess masters.-Biography:...
  
  
• 1942 Ventnor City Yanofsky
  Daniel Yanofsky
  Daniel Abraham Yanofsky, OC, QC was Canada's first chess grandmaster, an eight-time Canadian Chess Champion, a chess writer, a chess arbiter, and a lawyer.-Life in chess:...
  
  
• 1943 Mar del Plata Najdorf
• 1943 Rio de Janeiro Eliskases
• 1943 Syracuse Horowitz
  Al Horowitz
  Israel Albert Horowitz was a Jewish-American International Master of chess. He was clearly a grandmaster-strength player by present day standards, but he never received the title...
  
  
• 1943 Sverdlovsk Botvinnik
• 1943 Prague Alekhine
• 1943 Salzburg Keres, Alekhine
• 1943 Madrid Keres
• 1943 Krynica (GG tournament) Lokvenc
  Josef Lokvenc
  Josef Lokvenc was an Austrian chess master.In 1925, he was awarded the Chess Master title in Braunau. In 1926, he took 3rd in Vienna. In 1936, he tied for 6-7th in Vienna . In 1938, he tied for 6-7th in Bad Harzburg...
  
  
• 1944 Radom (GG tournament) Bogoljubov
• 1944 Mar del Plata Pilnik
  Herman Pilnik
  Herman Pilnik was an Argentine chess Grandmaster.-Career:...
  
  , Najdorf
• 1944 La Plata Najdorf
• 1944 Buenos Aires Czerniak
• 1944 Gijon Alekhine
• 1944/45 Riga Keres
• 1945 Mar del Plata Najdorf
• 1945 Buenos Aires Najdorf
• 1945 Hollywood Reshevsky
• 1945 Madrid Alekhine
• 1945 Gijon Rico
  Antonio Rico
  Antonio Rico González was a Spanish chess master.He was eight times Asturian Champion .In 1934, he tied for 5-6th in Madrid...
  
  
• 1945 Riga Mikenas
  Vladas Mikenas
  Vladas Mikėnas was a Lithuanian International Master of chess, an Honorary Grandmaster, and a journalist.- Early life :Vladas Mikėnas played for Lithuania at first board in five official and one unofficial Chess Olympiads....
  
  
• 1945/46 Hastings Tartakower
• 1946 Mar del Plata Najdorf
• 1946 Groningen tournament
  Groningen 1946 chess tournament
  Groningen 1946 was the first major international chess tournament to be held after World War II.Held at Groningen in August and September 1946, it was considered a miracle that the Netherlands could stage such an event just fifteen months after the end of the war.Mikhail Botvinnik won the...
  
   Botvinnik
• 1946 Regensburg Bogatyrchuk
• 1946 London Steiner H.
  Herman Steiner
  Herman Steiner was a United States chess player, organizer, and columnist.He won the U.S. Chess Championship in 1948 and became International Master in 1950....
  
  
• 1946 Prague Najdorf
• 1947 Moscow Botvinnik
• 1947 Pärnu Keres
• 1947 Mar del Plata Najdorf
• 1947 Buenos Aires Stahlberg
• 1947 Buenos Aires - La Plata Stahlberg
• 1947 São Paulo Eliskases
• 1947 Warsaw Gligorić
  Svetozar Gligoric
  Svetozar Gligorić is a Serbian chess grandmaster. He won the championship of Yugoslavia a record twelve times, and is considered the best player ever from Serbia...
  
  
• 1947/48 Hastings Szabó
• 1948 Karlovy Vary - Mariánské Lázně Foltys
• 1948 Mar del Plata Eliskases
• 1948 Buenos Aires - La Plata Najdorf
• 1948 Venice Najdorf
• 1948 New York Fine
• 1948/49 Hastings Rossolimo
  Nicolas Rossolimo
  Nicolas Rossolimo was an American-French-Russian-Greek chess Grandmaster. He was many times champion of Paris, France, and after relocating to the United States won the 1955 U.S. Open Championship...
  
  
• 1949 Mar del Plata Rossetto
  Héctor Rossetto
  Héctor Decio Rossetto was one of the best chess players in Argentine history.He earned the title of International Master in 1950 and the Grandmaster title in 1960....
  
  
• 1949 Heidelberg Unzicker
  Wolfgang Unzicker
  Wolfgang Unzicker was one of the strongest German chess Grandmasters from 1945 to about 1970.He decided against making chess his profession, choosing law instead....
  
  
• 1949 Trencianske Teplice Stahlberg
• 1949 Venice Szabó
• 1949/50 Hastings Szabó

1950–1959

• 1950 Mar del Plata Gligorić
• 1950 Amsterdam Najdorf
• 1950 Salzbrunn (Szczawno Zdrój) Keres
• 1950 Venice Kotov
  Alexander Kotov
  Alexander Alexandrovich Kotov was a Soviet chess grandmaster and author. He was a Soviet champion, a two-time world title Candidate, and a prolific chess author. Kotov served in high posts in the Soviet Chess Federation and most of his books were written during the period of Cold War between the...
  
  
• 1950 Gijon Rossolimo
• 1950/51 Hastings Unzicker
• 1951 New York Reshevsky
• 1951 Madrid Prins
  Lodewijk Prins
  Lodewijk Prins was a Dutch chess player and referee of chess competitions.Prins was awarded the International Master title in 1950, and was made an International Arbiter in 1960. In 1982 FIDE made him an honorary Grandmaster.Prins represented the Netherlands twelve times in all Chess Olympiads...
  
  
• 1951 Gijon Euwe
• 1951 Vienna Czerniak
• 1951 Birmingham Gligorić
• 1951/52 Hastings Gligorić
• 1952 Havana Reshevsky, Najdorf
• 1952 Mar del Plata Bolbochan Jul.
  Julio Bolbochan
  Julio Bolbochán was the Argentine chess champion in 1946 and 1948.Born in Buenos Aires, he represented Argentina in seven Chess Olympiads from 1950 to 1970....
  
  , Rossetto
• 1952 Budapest Keres
• 1952 Belgrade Pilnik
• 1953 Mar del Plata Gligorić
• 1953 Bucharest Tolush
  Alexander Tolush
  Alexander Kazimirovich Tolush was a Soviet Russian chess grandmaster. He was one of Boris Spassky's mentors. Tolush was born and died in Saint Petersburg...
  
  
• 1953 Zurich tournament
  Zurich 1953 chess tournament
  Zurich 1953 was a chess tournament won by Vasily Smyslov. It was a Candidates Tournament for the 1954 World Chess Championship.-References:...
  
   Smyslov
  Vasily Smyslov
  Vasily Vasilyevich Smyslov was a Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster, and was World Chess Champion from 1957 to 1958. He was a Candidate for the World Chess Championship on eight occasions . Smyslov was twice equal first at the Soviet Championship , and his total of 17 Chess Olympiad medals won...
  
  
• 1954 Belgrade Bronstein
  David Bronstein
  David Ionovich Bronstein was a Soviet chess grandmaster, who narrowly missed becoming World Chess Champion in 1951. Bronstein was described by his peers as a creative genius and master of tactics...
  
  
• 1954 Bucharest Korchnoi
  Viktor Korchnoi
  Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi ; pronounced in the original Russian as "karch NOY"; Ви́ктор Льво́вич Корчно́й, born March 23, 1931 is a professional chess player, author and currently the oldest active grandmaster on the tournament circuit...
  
  
• 1954 Montevideo Letelier
  René Letelier
  René Letelier Martner was a Chilean chess player with the title of International Master.-Biography:...
  
  
• 1954/55 Hastings Keres, Smyslov
• 1955 Mar del Plata Ivkov
  Borislav Ivkov
  Borislav Ivkov is a Serbian chess Grandmaster. He was the first ever World Junior Champion in 1951. He won the Yugoslav Championship in 1958 , 1963 and 1972. He was a World championship candidate in 1965, and played in four more Interzonal tournaments, in 1967, 1970, 1973, and 1979...
  
  
• 1955 Buenos Aires Ivkov
• 1955 Zagreb Smyslov
• 1955 Gijon Pomar
  Arturo Pomar
  Arturo Pomar Salamanca is a Spanish chess Grandmaster .A chess prodigy , and a pupil of Alexander Alekhine, he became quite famous...
  
  
• 1955/56 Hastings Korchnoi, Ólafsson
  Friðrik Ólafsson
  Friðrik Ólafsson is an Icelandic chess Grandmaster and former president of FIDE.Friðrik was born in Reykjavík, Iceland. A first-time winner of the Icelandic Championship in 1952 and of the Scandinavian Championship a year later, he rapidly became recognised as the strongest Icelandic player of his...
  
  
• 1956 Mar del Plata Bolbochan Jul., Najdorf
• 1956 Montevideo Najdorf
• 1956 Moscow Botvinnik, Smyslov
• 1956 Dresden Averbakh
  Yuri Averbakh
  Yuri Lvovich Averbakh is a Soviet and Russian chess player and author. He is currently the oldest living chess grandmaster.-Life and career:...
  
  , Kholmov
  Ratmir Kholmov
  Ratmir Dmitrievich Kholmov was a Russian chess Grandmaster. He won many international tournaments in Eastern Europe during his career, and tied for the Soviet Championship title in 1963, but lost the playoff...
  
  
• 1956/57 Hastings Gligorić, Larsen
  Bent Larsen
  Jørgen Bent Larsen was a Danish chess Grandmaster and author. Larsen was known for his imaginative and unorthodox style of play and he was the first western player to pose a serious challenge to the Soviet Union's dominance of chess...
  
  
• 1957 Mar del Plata Keres
• 1957 Dallas tournament
  Dallas 1957 chess tournament
  The Dallas 1957 chess tournament was played in Hotel Adolphus in Dallas, then the tallest building in Texas, from November 30 to December 16, 1957. The main event was a contest among eight players from seven countries. Three Polish-born grandmasters participated; Samuel Reshevsky, Miguel Najdorf...
  
    Reshevsky, Gligorić
• 1957 São Paulo Sanguinetti
  Raúl Sanguinetti
  Raúl Carlos Sanguineti , sometimes spelled Sanguinetti was an Argentine chess Grandmaster. He won the Argentine Chess Championship seven times, in 1956, 1957, 1962, 1965, 1968, 1973 and 1974. Raúl Sanguinetti played for Argentina in seven Chess Olympiads...
  
  
• 1957 Gotha Bronstein
• 1957 Madrid Darga
  Klaus Darga
  Klaus Viktor Darga is a German Grandmaster chess player.In 1951 Darga became German Junior Champion after winning the national under-20 championship. He also proved his strength as a young chessplayer by sharing first place in the World Junior Championship of 1953, with Oscar Panno of Argentina...
  
  
• 1957/58 Hastings Keres
• 1958 Haifa - Tel Aviv Reshevsky
• 1958 Mar del Plata Larsen
• 1958 Bogotá Panno
  Oscar Panno
  Oscar R. Panno is an Argentine chess Grandmaster.Panno won the World Junior Chess Championship in 1953, and also won the championship of Argentina the same year....
  
  
• 1958 Portorož Interzonal, Tal
  Mikhail Tal
  Mikhail Tal was a Soviet–Latvian chess player, a Grandmaster, and the eighth World Chess Champion.Widely regarded as a creative genius, and the best attacking player of all time, he played a daring, combinatorial style. His play was known above all for improvisation and unpredictability....
  
  
• 1958/59 Hastings Uhlmann
  Wolfgang Uhlmann
  Wolfgang Uhlmann is a prominent German International Grandmaster of chess. Despite being a dedicated professional chess player, and undoubtedly the GDR's most successful ever, he has also had a career in accountancy.-Chess career:...
  
  
• 1959 Moscow Bronstein, Smyslov, Spassky
  Boris Spassky
  Boris Vasilievich Spassky is a Soviet-French chess grandmaster. He was the tenth World Chess Champion, holding the title from late 1969 to 1972...
  
  
• 1959 Mar del Plata Najdorf, Pachman
  Ludek Pachman
  Luděk Pachman was a Czechoslovak-German chess grandmaster, chess writer, and political activist. In 1972, after being imprisoned and tortured almost to death by the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia, he was allowed to emigrate to West Germany...
  
  
• 1959 Santiago de Chile Ivkov, Pachman
• 1959 Lima Ivkov, Pachman
• 1959 Zurich Tal
  Mikhail Tal
  Mikhail Tal was a Soviet–Latvian chess player, a Grandmaster, and the eighth World Chess Champion.Widely regarded as a creative genius, and the best attacking player of all time, he played a daring, combinatorial style. His play was known above all for improvisation and unpredictability....
  
  
• 1959 Dresden Geller
  Efim Geller
  Efim Petrovich Geller was a Soviet chess player and world-class grandmaster at his peak. He won the Soviet Championship twice and was a Candidate for the World Championship on six occasions...
  
  , Taimanov
  Mark Taimanov
  Mark Evgenievich Taimanov is a leading Soviet and Russian chess player and concert pianist.-Chess:He was awarded the International Grandmaster title in 1952 and played in the Candidates Tournament in Zurich in 1953, where he tied for eighth place. From 1946 to 1956, he was among the world's top...
  
  
• 1959 Riga Spassky
• 1959/60 Hastings Gligorić

1960–1969

• 1960 Mar del Plata Spassky, Fischer
  Bobby Fischer
  Robert James "Bobby" Fischer was an American chess Grandmaster and the 11th World Chess Champion. He is widely considered one of the greatest chess players of all time. Fischer was also a best-selling chess author...
  
  
• 1960 Buenos Aires Korchnoi, Reshevsky
• 1960/61 Hastings Gligorić
• 1960/61 Stockholm Tal
• 1961 Mar del Plata Najdorf
• 1961 Bled Tal
• 1961 Zurich Keres
• 1961 Dortmund Taimanov
• 1961 Santa Fe Byrne R.
• 1961/62 Hastings Botvinnik
• 1962 Mar del Plata Polugaevsky
  Lev Polugaevsky
  Lev Abramovich Polugaevsky was an International Grandmaster of chess and frequent contender for the world chess championship, although he never achieved that title...
  
  
• 1962 Havana Najdorf
• 1962/63 Hastings Gligorić, Kotov
• 1963 Los Angeles (Piatigorsky Cup
  Piatigorsky Cup
  The Piatigorsky Cup was a triennial series of double round-robin grandmaster chess tournaments held in the United States in the 1960s. Sponsored by the Piatigorsky Foundation, only two events were held, in 1963 and 1966. The Piatigorsky Cups were the strongest U.S. chess tournaments since New...
  
  ) Keres, Petrosian
  Tigran Petrosian
  Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian was a Soviet-Armenian grandmaster, and World Chess Champion from 1963 to 1969. He was nicknamed "Iron Tigran" due to his playing style because of his almost impenetrable defence, which emphasised safety above all else...
  
  
• 1963 Havana Korchnoi
• 1963 Moscow Smyslov
• 1963 Sarajevo Portisch
  Lajos Portisch
  Lajos Portisch is a Hungarian chess Grandmaster, whose positional style earned him the nickname, the "Hungarian Botvinnik"...
  
  
• 1963 Miszkolc Tal
• 1963/64 Hastings Tal
• 1964 Belgrade Spassky
• 1964 Buenos Aires Keres, Petrosian
• 1964 Havana Smyslov, Uhlmann
• 1964/65 Hastings Keres
• 1965 Mar del Plata Najdorf
• 1965 Yerevan Korchnoi
• 1965 Havana Smyslov
• 1965 Santiago de Chile Smyslov
• 1965 Zagreb Ivkov, Uhlmann
• 1965 Palma de Mallorca Pomar, O'Kelly
  Albéric O'Kelly de Galway
  Albéric O'Kelly de Galway was a Belgian chess Grandmaster , and an International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster , most famous for being the third ICCF World Champion in correspondence chess between 1959 and 1962. He was also a chess writer...
  
  , Darga
• 1965/66 Hastings Spassky, Uhlmann
• 1966 Santa Monica (Piatigorsky Cup
  Piatigorsky Cup
  The Piatigorsky Cup was a triennial series of double round-robin grandmaster chess tournaments held in the United States in the 1960s. Sponsored by the Piatigorsky Foundation, only two events were held, in 1963 and 1966. The Piatigorsky Cups were the strongest U.S. chess tournaments since New...
  
  ) Spassky
• 1966 Mar del Plata Smyslov
• 1966 Moscow Petrosian
• 1966 Sochi Korchnoi
• 1966 Kislovodsk Geller
• 1966 Tel Aviv Gligorić
• 1966 Palma de Mallorca Tal
• 1966/67 Hastings Botvinnik
• 1967 Monte Carlo tournament
  Monte Carlo chess tournament
  The Monte Carlo chess tournament was established in 1901. There were a series of very strong tournaments held in Monte Carlo, from 1901 to 1904, and again after a long break from 1967 to 1969.-1901:...
  
   Fischer
• 1967 Beverwijk Spassky
• 1967 Havana Larsen
• 1967 Leningrad Korchnoi
• 1967 Moscow Stein
  Leonid Stein
  Leonid Zakharovich Stein was a Soviet chess Grandmaster from Ukraine. He won three USSR Chess Championships in the 1960s , and was among the world's top ten players during that era.- Early life :...
  
  
• 1967 Budva Korchnoi
• 1967 Maribor Unzicker
• 1967 Winnipeg Darga, Larsen
• 1967 Palma de Mallorca Larsen
• 1967 Skopje Fischer
• 1968 Monte Carlo tournament
  Monte Carlo chess tournament
  The Monte Carlo chess tournament was established in 1901. There were a series of very strong tournaments held in Monte Carlo, from 1901 to 1904, and again after a long break from 1967 to 1969.-1901:...
  
   Larsen
• 1968 Bamberg Keres
• 1968 Wijk aan Zee Korchnoi
• 1968 Netanya Fischer
• 1968 Vinkovci Fischer
• 1968 Skopje Portisch
• 1968 Palma de Mallorca Korchnoi
• 1968 Havana Kholmov
• 1969 Tallinn Stein
• 1969 Monte Carlo tournament
  Monte Carlo chess tournament
  The Monte Carlo chess tournament was established in 1901. There were a series of very strong tournaments held in Monte Carlo, from 1901 to 1904, and again after a long break from 1967 to 1969.-1901:...
  
   Portisch, Smyslov
• 1969 Busum Larsen
• 1969 San Juan Spassky
• 1969 Palma de Mallorca Larsen
• 1969 Netanya Reshevsky
• 1969/70 Hastings Portisch

1970–1979

• 1970 Budapest Keres
• 1970 Lugano Larsen
• 1970 Rovinj - Zagreb Fischer
• 1970 Buenos Aires Fischer
• 1970 Leiden Spassky
• 1970 Vinkovci Larsen
• 1970 Caracas Stein, Kavalek, Panno
• 1971 Mar del Plata Polugaevsky
• 1971 Moscow Karpov
  Anatoly Karpov
  Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov is a Russian chess grandmaster and former World Champion. He was the official world champion from 1975 to 1985 when he was defeated by Garry Kasparov. He played three matches against Kasparov for the title from 1986 to 1990, before becoming FIDE World Champion once...
  
  , Stein
• 1971 Tallinn Keres, Tal
• 1971 Wijk aan Zee Korchnoi
• 1971 Havana Hort
  Vlastimil Hort
  Vlastimil Hort is a chess Grandmaster of Czech nationality. During the 1960s and 1970s he was one of the world's strongest players and reached the Candidates stage of competition for the world chess championship, but was never able to compete for the actual title.Hort was born in Kladno,...
  
  
• 1971 Göteborg Andersson
  Ulf Andersson
  Ulf Andersson is a leading Swedish chess player. FIDE awarded him the International Master title in 1970 and the Grandmaster title in 1972 .-Career:...
  
  , Hort
• 1971 Palma de Mallorca Panno, Ljubojević
  Ljubomir Ljubojevic
  Ljubomir Ljubojević is a Grandmaster of chess. He was born on November 2, 1950, in Titovo Užice, Yugoslavia . Ljubojević was awarded the International Master title in 1970 and the GM title in 1971. He was Yugoslav champion in 1977 and 1982. He won the 1974 Canadian Open Chess Championship...
  
  
• 1971 Vršac Mecking
  Henrique Mecking
  Henrique Mecking was a leading Brazilian chess Grandmaster in the 1970s. He was a very strong player at an early age , drawing comparisons to Bobby Fischer, although he did not achieve the International Grandmaster title until 1971...
  
  
• 1971/72 Hastings Karpov, Korchnoi
• 1972 Teesside Larsen
• 1972 San Antonio
  San Antonio, Texas
  San Antonio is the seventh-largest city in the United States of America and the second-largest city within the state of Texas, with a population of 1.33 million. Located in the American Southwest and the south–central part of Texas, the city serves as the seat of Bexar County. In 2011,...
  
  Portisch, Petrosian, Karpov
• 1972 Palma de Mallorca Panno, Korchnoi, Smejkal
  Jan Smejkal
  Jan Smejkal is a Czech chess player and, since 1972, an International Grandmaster. In the 1970s, he was among the world chess elite...
  
  
• 1972/73 Hastings Larsen
• 1973 Hilversum Szabó, Geller
• 1973 Budapest Geller
• 1973 Tallinn Tal
• 1973 Sochi Tal
• 1973 Madrid Karpov
• 1973 Netanya Kavalek
• 1974 Montilla Radulov
  Ivan Radulov
  Ivan Radulov is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster.As a chess player, he was most prominent during the 1970s, winning the Bulgarian Championship in 1971, 1974, 1977 and 1980. He just missed out at the 1976 event, finishing 2nd...
  
  
• 1974 Manila Vasiukov
  Evgeni Vasiukov
  Evgeni Andreyevich Vasiukov is a Russian chess Grandmaster. During his career, he won the Championship of Moscow on six occasions and scored many victories in international tournaments, such as Belgrade Open 1961, Moscow International 1961, East Berlin 1962, and Manila 1974...
  
  
• 1974 Las Palmas Ljubojević
• 1974/75 Hastings Hort
• 1975 Wijk aan Zee Portisch
• 1975 Montilla Polugaevsky, Radulov
• 1975 Tallinn Keres
• 1975 Moscow Geller
• 1975 Portorož - Ljubljana Karpov
• 1975 Milan Karpov
• 1975 Teesside Geller
• 1975 Manila Ljubojević
• 1976 Wijk aan Zee Ljubojević, Ólafsson
• 1976 Amsterdam Karpov
• 1977 Bad Lauterberg Karpov
• 1977 Geneva Larsen
• 1977 Leningrad Romanishin
  Oleg Romanishin
  Oleg Mikhailovich Romanishin is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster and former European junior champion.Many honours and awards were bestowed on him as a young man. After winning the European Junior Championship in 1973, he became an International Master the same year...
  
  , Tal
• 1977 Portorož - Ljubljana Larsen
• 1977 Tilburg Karpov
• 1978 Bugojno Karpov, Spassky
• 1978 Niksic Gulko, Timman
  Jan Timman
  Jan Timman is a Dutch chess Grandmaster who was one of the world's leading players from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. At the peak of his career he was considered to be the best non-Soviet player and was known as "The Best of the West"...
  
  
• 1978 Tilburg Portisch
• 1978 Wijk aan Zee Portisch
• 1978 Amsterdam Timman
• 1979 Montreal Karpov, Tal
• 1979 Tilburg Karpov
• 1979 Wijk aan Zee Polugaevsky
• 1979 Bled - Portorož Timman
• 1979 Biel Korchnoi
• 1979 Amsterdam Hort, Sax
  Gyula Sax
  Gyula Sax is a Hungarian chess player and International Arbiter , born in Budapest.He was awarded the IM title in 1972 and the GM title in 1974. He was the Hungarian Chess Champion in 1976 and 1977 . In 1971-72, he was the European Junior Champion, and he placed first at Rovinj-Zagreb 1975,...
  
  

1980–1989

• 1980 Amsterdam Karpov
• 1980 Bad Kissingen Karpov
• 1980 Buenos Aires Larsen
• 1980 Bugojno Karpov
• 1980 London Andersson, Korchnoi, Miles
• 1980 Vrbas Miles
• 1980 Baden Spassky, Beliavsky
  Alexander Beliavsky
  -External links:...
  
  
• 1980 Tilburg Karpov
• 1981 Wijk aan Zee Sosonko, Timman
• 1981 Amsterdam Timman
• 1981 Bad Kissingen Korchnoi
• 1981 Las Palmas Timman
• 1981 Linares Christiansen, Karpov
• 1981 Moscow Karpov
• 1981 Tilburg Beliavsky
• 1982 Bugojno Kasparov
  Garry Kasparov
  Garry Kimovich Kasparov is a Russian chess grandmaster, a former World Chess Champion, writer, political activist, and one of the greatest chess players of all time....
  
  
• 1982 London Andersson, Karpov
• 1982 Sochi Tal
• 1982 Moscow Tal, Vaganian
  Rafael Vaganian
  Rafael Artemovich Vaganian, also transliterated Vahanyan is an Armenian chess grandmaster known for his sharp tactical style of play...
  
  
• 1982 Wijk aan Zee Balashov
  Yuri Balashov
  -Chess career:He was awarded the grandmaster title in 1973. Balashov was Moscow Champion in 1970 and 2nd to Anatoly Karpov in the 1976 USSR Chess Championship. In 1977 he won Lithuanian Chess Championship. He finished 1st= at Lone Pine 1977 and 1st= at Wijk aan Zee 1982.Balashov represented the...
  
  , Nunn
  John Nunn
  John Denis Martin Nunn is one of England's strongest chess players and once belonged to the world's top ten. He is also a three times world champion in chess problem solving, a chess writer and publisher, and a mathematician....
  
  
• 1982 Chicago Hübner
  Robert Hübner
  Robert Hübner is a respected German chess Grandmaster, chess writer, and papyrologist . At eighteen, he was joint winner of the West German Chess Championship...
  
  
• 1982 Mar del Plata Timman
• 1982 Tilburg Karpov
• 1982 Turin Andersson, Karpov
• 1983 Linares Spassky
• 1983 Wijk aan Zee Andersson
• 1983 Niksic Kasparov
• 1983 Gjovik Nunn, Adorján
  Andras Adorjan
  András Adorján is a Hungarian author and Grandmaster of chess , born in Budapest. He adopted his mother's surname Adorján in 1968....
  
  , Browne
• 1983 Tilburg Karpov
• 1984 Oslo Karpov
• 1984 Novi Sad Nikolic
  Predrag Nikolic
  Predrag Nikolić is a Bosnian chess grandmaster.He first competed for the Yugoslav Championship in 1979, taking a share of second place. The following year and again in 1984, he went one step further and became the Yugoslav national champion...
  
  
• 1984 Wijk aan Zee Beliavsky, Korchnoi
• 1984 Bugojno Timman
• 1984 London Karpov
• 1984 Sarajevo Korchnoi, Timman
• 1984 Titograd Velimirovic, Korchnoi
• 1984 Tilburg Miles
• 1985 Amsterdam Karpov
• 1985 Portorož - Ljubljana Portisch, Ribli
  Zoltan Ribli
  Zoltán Ribli is a Hungarian chess grandmaster and International Arbiter . He was twice a World Championship Candidate and three times Hungarian Champion.-A career in chess:...
  
  , Miles
• 1985 Reggio Emilia Portisch
• 1985 Linares Hübner, Ljubojevic
• 1985 Tilburg Hübner, Korchnoi, Miles
• 1985 Wijk aan Zee Timman
• 1985 Moscow Romanishin
• 1985 Naestved Vaganian, Browne, Larsen
• 1986 Brussels Karpov
• 1986 Reggio Emilia (1) Andersson, Ljubojevic, Romanishin
• 1986 Reggio Emilia (2) Ribli
• 1986 Bugojno Karpov
• 1986 Wijk aan Zee Short
  Nigel Short
  Nigel David Short MBE is an English chess grandmaster earning the title at the age of 19. Short is often regarded as the strongest English player of the 20th century as he was ranked third in the world, from January 1988 – July 1989 and in 1993, he challenged Garry Kasparov for the World Chess...
  
  
• 1986 Tilburg Beliavsky
• 1986 London Flear
  Glenn Flear
  Glenn Curtis Flear is a British chess grandmaster now living in Montpellier, France. He is the author of several books, some on chess openings and some on the endgame....
  
  
• 1987 Belgrade Ljubojevic
• 1987 Brussels Kasparov, Ljubojevic
• 1987 Tilburg Timman
• 1987 Reykjavik Short
• 1987 Amsterdam Karpov, Timman
• 1988 Belfort (World Cup) Kasparov
• 1988 Brussels WC Karpov
• 1988 Reykjavik WC Kasparov
• 1989 Barcelona WC Kasparov, Ljubojevic
• 1989 Linares Ivanchuk
• 1989 Reggio Emilia Ehlvest
  Jaan Ehlvest
  Jaan Ehlvest Jaan Ehlvest Jaan Ehlvest (born 14 October 1962 is a chess player, who was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1987 and was named Estonian sportsman of the year in 1987 and 1989...
  
  
• 1989 Rotterdam WC Timman
• 1989 Skelleftea WC Karpov, Kasparov
• 1989 Tilburg Kasparov

1990–1999

• 1990 Linares Kasparov
• 1990 Tilburg Ivanchuk, Kamsky
  Gata Kamsky
  Gata Kamsky is a Soviet-born American chess grandmaster, and the current World Rapid Chess Champion. He is also the current United States Chess Champion. As of September 2011, he is rated No. 1 in the United States and No...
  
  
• 1990 Wijk aan Zee Nunn
• 1991 Amsterdam Salov
  Valery Salov
  Valery Salov is a Russian chess grandmaster.Salov was awarded the International Master title in 1984 and the Grandmaster title in 1986. He was the World under-17 Champion in 1980 and European Junior Champion in 1983-84...
  
  , Short
• 1991 Linares Ivanchuk
• 1991 Reggio Emilia (1) Anand
  Viswanathan Anand
  V. Anand or Anand Viswanathan, usually referred as Viswanathan Anand, is an Indian chess Grandmaster, the current World Chess Champion, and currently second highest rated player in the world....
  
  
• 1991 Reggio Emilia (2) Karpov
• 1991 Reykjavik Ivanchuk, Karpov
• 1991 Tilburg Kasparov
• 1992 Biel Karpov
• 1992 Dortmund Ivanchuk, Kasparov
• 1992 Linares Kasparov
• 1992 Moscow Anand, Gelfand
  Boris Gelfand
  Boris Abramovich Gelfand is a Belarus-born Israeli chess Grandmaster. He won the 2011 Candidates Tournament and will challenge Viswanathan Anand for the World Chess Championship 2012.-Biography:...
  
  
• 1992 Wijk aan Zee Gelfand, Salov
• 1993 Amsterdam Anand, Kramnik
  Vladimir Kramnik
  Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik is a Russian chess grandmaster. He was the Classical World Chess Champion from 2000 to 2006, and the undisputed World Chess Champion from 2006 to 2007...
  
  , Short
• 1993 Belgrade Beliavsky
• 1993 Dortmund Karpov
• 1993 Las Palmas Morovic
  Iván Morovic
  Iván Eduardo Morović Fernández is a Chilean chess player and an International Grandmaster of Croatian origin. He often has been the best Latin American chess player....
  
  
• 1993 Linares Kasparov
• 1993 Munich Shirov
  Alexei Shirov
  Alexei Dmitrievich Shirov is a Soviet-born Latvian chess grandmaster. He has consistently ranked among the world's top players since the early 1990s, and reached a ranking as high as number four in 1998...
  
  
• 1993 Wijk aan Zee Karpov
• 1994 Amsterdam Kasparov
• 1994 Buenos Aires Salov
• 1994 Las Palmas Kamsky
• 1994 Linares Karpov
• 1994 Novgorod Ivanchuk, Kasparov
• 1995 Amsterdam Lautier
  Joel Lautier
  Joël Lautier is a French chess grandmaster and FIDE Senior Trainer .Born in Canada, of French father and Japanese mother, Lautier is one of the strongest grandmasters from France. He won the 1988 World Junior Chess Championship on tiebreak at Adelaide, and the French Chess Championships in 2004...
  
  
• 1995 Dortmund Kramnik
• 1995 Dos Hermanas Adams, Kamsky, Karpov
• 1995 Linares Ivanchuk
• 1995 Novgorod Kasparov
• 1995 Riga Kasparov
• 1996 Amsterdam Kasparov, Topalov
  Veselin Topalov
  Veselin Aleksandrov Topalov is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster. He currently has the sixth highest rating in the world, and was the challenger facing world champion Viswanathan Anand in the World Chess Championship 2010, losing the match 6½–5½....
  
  
• 1996 Dortmund Anand, Kramnik
• 1996 Dos Hermanas Kramnik, Topalov
• 1996 Las Palmas Kasparov
• 1996 Leon Polgar J.
  Judit Polgár
  Judit Polgár is a Hungarian chess grandmaster. She is by far the strongest female chess player in history. In 1991, Polgár achieved the title of Grandmaster at the age of 15 years and 4 months, the youngest person ever to do so at that time.Polgár was ranked No...
  
  , Topalov
• 1996 Madrid Illescas Córdoba, Topalov
• 1996 Novgorod Topalov
• 1996 Pärnu Short
• 1996 Vienna Gelfand, Karpov, Topalov
• 1996 Wijk aan Zee Ivanchuk
• 1997 Belgrade Anand, Ivanchuk
• 1997 Biel Anand
• 1997 Dortmund Kramnik
• 1997 Dos Hermanas Anand, Kramnik
• 1997 Linares Kasparov
• 1997 Madrid Shirov, Topalov
• 1997 Novgorod Kasparov
• 1997 Ter Apel Shirov
• 1997 Tilburg Kasparov, Kramnik, Svidler
  Peter Svidler
  Peter Veniaminovich Svidler is a Russian chess grandmaster.He is six-time Russian champion ....
  
  
• 1997 Wijk aan Zee Salov
• 1998 Dortmund Adams, Kramnik, Svidler
• 1998 Linares Anand
• 1998 Madrid Anand
• 1998 Polanica Zdroj Gelfand
• 1998 Tilburg Anand
• 1998 Wijk aan Zee Anand, Kramnik
• 1999 Dortmund Leko
  Péter Lékó
  On the way to winning the prestigious Corus chess tournament in 2005, Lékó defeated Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand with the black pieces. The moves were:...
  
  
• 1999 Dos Hermanas Adams
• 1999 Linares (Linares chess tournament
  Linares chess tournament
  The Linares International Chess Tournament , is an annual chess tournament, usually played around the end of February, takes its name from the city of Linares in the Jaén province of Andalusia, Spain, in which it is held...
  
  ) Kasparov
• 1999 Sarajevo Kasparov
• 1999 Wijk aan Zee (Corus chess tournament
  Corus chess tournament
  The Tata Steel Chess Tournament formerly called the Corus chess tournament takes place every year, usually in January, in a small town called Wijk aan Zee, part of the larger Beverwijk in the province of North Holland in the Netherlands...
  
  ) Kasparov

2000–2009

• 2000 Dortmund Anand, Kramnik
• 2000 Linares Kasparov, Kramnik
• 2000 Biel Svidler
• 2000 Lvov Ivanchuk
• 2000 Mérida Shirov
• 2000 Montecatini Terme Ivanchuk
• 2000 Polanica Zdroj Gelfand
• 2000 Sarajevo Kasparov
• 2000 Wijk aan Zee Kasparov
• 2001 Astana Kasparov
• 2001 Dortmund Kramnik, Topalov
• 2001 Linares Kasparov
• 2001 Biel Korchnoi
• 2001 Mérida Anand
• 2001 Wijk aan Zee Kasparov
• 2002 Cannes Gelfand, Topalov
• 2002 Linares Kasparov
• 2002 Wijk aan Zee Bareev
  Evgeny Bareev
  Evgeny Bareev is a Russian chess Grandmaster and chess coach. In October 2003, he was in fourth place in the world rankings, with an Elo rating of 2739....
  
  
• 2002 Hastings Nielsen
  Peter Heine Nielsen
  Peter Heine Nielsen is a Danish chess Grandmaster.-Chess career:Nielsen became an International Grandmaster in 1994. He won the Danish Chess Championship five times: in 1996, 1999, 2001, 2003, and 2008. He played for Denmark in seven Chess Olympiads, three times on top board, with an overall...
  
  
• 2003 Budapest Short
• 2003 Dortmund Bologan
• 2003 Enghien les Bains Bareev
• 2003 Biel Morozevich
  Alexander Morozevich
  Alexander Morozevich is a Russian chess Grandmaster. In the November 2011 FIDE list, he had an Elo rating of 2762, making him the 9th-highest rated player in the world, although he has previously ranked as high as second, in the July 2008 list....
  
  
• 2003 Hoogeveen Polgar J.
• 2003 Linares Kramnik, Leko
• 2003 Wijk aan Zee Anand
• 2004 Biel Morozevich
• 2004 Dortmund Anand
• 2004 Linares Kramnik
• 2004 Poikovsky Grischuk
  Alexander Grischuk
  Alexander Igorevich Grischuk is a Russian chess grandmaster and Russian Champion in 2009.-Chess career:In the FIDE World Chess Championship 2000, Grischuk he made it to the semifinals, losing to Alexei Shirov....
  
  , Rublevsky
  Sergei Rublevsky
  Sergei Rublevsky is a Russian chess grandmaster . He won the prestigious Aeroflot Open in 2004, and became the 58th Russian chess champion after winning the Russian Superfinal in Moscow , one point clear from Dmitry Jakovenko and Alexander Morozevich.He finished in the top 10 in the 2005 FIDE...
  
  
• 2004 Wijk aan Zee Anand
• 2005 Bermuda Gelfand, Harikrishna
  Pendyala Harikrishna
  Pentala Harikrishna is a chess player from Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India. Harikrishna became the youngest grandmaster from India in 2001. He is No. 3 in India after Viswanathan Anand & Krishnan Sasikiran, No. 9 in Asia & ranked 71st in the world as per FIDE rating as on November 2011.In November...
  
  
• 2005 Dortmund Naiditsch
  Arkadij Naiditsch
  Arkadij Naiditsch is a German chess Grandmaster who was the clear winner of the Dortmund Sparkassen 2005 Tournament, ahead of higher-rated and well-known players such as Loek Van Wely, Veselin Topalov, Peter Svidler, Vladimir Kramnik, Michael Adams, and Peter Leko...
  
  
• 2005 Linares Kasparov, Topalov
• 2005 Moscow Rublevsky
• 2005 Poikovsky Bacrot
  Étienne Bacrot
  Étienne Bacrot is a French chess grandmaster and currently ranked number one in France.He started playing at 4; by 10 young Bacrot was already winning junior competitions and in 1996, at 13 years of age, he won against Vasily Smyslov...
  
  , Bologan
• 2005 Sofia Topalov
• 2005 Wijk aan Zee Leko
• 2006 Biel Morozevich
• 2006 Dortmund Kramnik, Svidler
• 2006 Foros Rublevsky
• 2006 Hoogeveen Mamedyarov
  Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
  Shakhriyar Hamid oglu Mammadyarov , also known for his Shah nickname, is a chess Grandmaster. On the September 2010 FIDE rating list he was ranked number nine in the world with an Elo rating of 2756....
  
  , Polgar J.
• 2006 Morelia - Linares (Linares chess tournament
  Linares chess tournament
  The Linares International Chess Tournament , is an annual chess tournament, usually played around the end of February, takes its name from the city of Linares in the Jaén province of Andalusia, Spain, in which it is held...
  
  ) Aronian
  Levon Aronian
  Levon Grigor Aronian is an Armenian chess Grandmaster and the reigning World Blitz Chess Champion. On the September 2011 FIDE list, he has an Elo rating of 2807, making him number three in the world and Armenia's number one...
  
  
• 2006 Moscow Aronian, Leko, Ponomariov
  Ruslan Ponomariov
  Ruslan Olegovich Ponomariov is a Ukrainian chess player and former FIDE World Champion.-Early career:Ponomariov was born in Horlivka in Ukraine. In 1994 he placed third in the World Under-12 Championship at the age of ten. In 1996 he won the European Under-18 Championship at the age of just...
  
  
• 2006 Pamplona Morozevich
• 2006 Poikovsky Shirov
• 2006 Sofia Topalov
• 2006 Wijk aan Zee Anand, Topalov
• 2007 Morelia - Linares (Linares chess tournament
  Linares chess tournament
  The Linares International Chess Tournament , is an annual chess tournament, usually played around the end of February, takes its name from the city of Linares in the Jaén province of Andalusia, Spain, in which it is held...
  
  ) Anand
• 2007 Poikovsky Jakovenko
  Dmitry Jakovenko
  Dmitry Olegovich Jakovenko is a Russian chess grandmaster. On the March 2010 FIDE Elo rating list, Jakovenko has a rating of 2725, making him the 20th highest ranked player in the world....
  
  
• 2007 Sofia Topalov
• 2007 Wijk aan Zee (Corus chess tournament
  Corus chess tournament
  The Tata Steel Chess Tournament formerly called the Corus chess tournament takes place every year, usually in January, in a small town called Wijk aan Zee, part of the larger Beverwijk in the province of North Holland in the Netherlands...
  
  ) Aronian, Radjabov
  Teimour Radjabov
  Radjabov's knight sacrifice, 21. ... Ngxe5, was praised by several strong players for its bravery, including English grandmaster Nigel Short. Said Short of the move, "Radjabov plays very imaginatively... he just won't give up, he is extremely tenacious and will always find a way to muddy the...
  
  , Topalov
• 2007 Foros Ivanchuk
• 2007 Biel Carlsen
  Magnus Carlsen
  Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen is a Norwegian chess Grandmaster and chess prodigy who is currently the number-one ranked player in the world. In January 2010 he became the seventh player ranked number one in the world on the official FIDE rating list...
  
  
• 2007 Dortmund Kramnik
• 2007 Khanty-Mansiysk (Chess World Cup 2007
  Chess World Cup 2007
  The Chess World Cup 2007 served as a qualification tournament for the World Chess Championship 2009. It was held as a 128-player single-elimination tournament, between 24 November and 16 December 2007, in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia....
  
  ) Kamsky
• 2007 Moscow Kramnik
• 2008 Wijk ann Zee (Corus chess tournament
  Corus chess tournament
  The Tata Steel Chess Tournament formerly called the Corus chess tournament takes place every year, usually in January, in a small town called Wijk aan Zee, part of the larger Beverwijk in the province of North Holland in the Netherlands...
  
  ) Aronian, Carlsen
• 2008 Morelia - Linares (Linares chess tournament
  Linares chess tournament
  The Linares International Chess Tournament , is an annual chess tournament, usually played around the end of February, takes its name from the city of Linares in the Jaén province of Andalusia, Spain, in which it is held...
  
  ) Anand
• 2008 Baku (Round 1 of FIDE Grand Prix 2008–2009) Gashimov
  Vugar Gashimov
  Vugar Gashimov , born July 24, 1986 in Baku, is one of the leading chess players from Azerbaijan. He is a noted player of Bullet chess and three times Azerbaijani national chess champion .He won at Athens 2005 ....
  
  , Wang Yue
  Wang Yue
  Wang Yue is a Chinese chess Grandmaster. He is China's highest-ever rated player with a peak Elo rating of 2751. In 2004, he became China's 18th Grandmaster at the age of 17....
  
  , Carlsen
• 2008 Sofia Ivanchuk
• 2008 Sarajevo Morozevich
• 2008 Foros Carlsen
• 2008 Dortmund Leko
• 2008 Poikovsky Rublevsky, Jakovenko, Gashimov, Shirov
• 2008 Yerevan Aronian
• 2008 Biel Alekseev
• 2008 Sochi (Round 2 of FIDE Grand Prix 2008–2009) Aronian
• 2008 Moscow Ivanchuk
• 2008 Bilbao
  Bilbao Chess Masters Final
  The Bilbao Chess Masters Final is one of the most important annual chess tournaments thanks to the level of the participants and the prizes at stake. It is a double round robin tournament typically featuring the winners of the grand slam chess tournaments which are part of the Grand Slam Chess...
  
  Topalov
• 2008 Nanjing (Pearl Spring Chess Tournament
  Pearl Spring chess tournament
  The Pearl Spring Chess Tournament is a double round robin chess tournament event featuring six super-GM players that takes place in Nanjing, China. The first edition in December 2008 was won by Veselin Topalov...
  
  ) Topalov
• 2008 Elista (Round 3 of FIDE Grand Prix 2008–2009) Radjabov, Jakovenko, Grischuk
• 2009 Reggio Emilia (Reggio Emilia chess tournament
  Reggio Emilia chess tournament
  The Reggio Emilia chess tournament is a chess tournament played in Reggio Emilia, Italy. In Italian the tournament is called Torneo di Capodanno , as it starts just after Christmas and ends on the day of Epiphany...
  
  ) Ni Hua
  Ni Hua
  Ni Hua is one of China's top chess grandmasters and is the national team captain. In 2003, he became China's 15th Grandmaster at the age of 19. On April 2008, Ni Hua and Bu Xiangzhi both became the second and third Chinese players to pass the 2700 Elo rating line, after Wang Yue...
  
  
• 2009 Wijk aan Zee (Corus chess tournament
  Corus chess tournament
  The Tata Steel Chess Tournament formerly called the Corus chess tournament takes place every year, usually in January, in a small town called Wijk aan Zee, part of the larger Beverwijk in the province of North Holland in the Netherlands...
  
  ) Karjakin
  Sergey Karjakin
  Sergey Alexandrovich Karjakin is a Russian chess grandmaster. He was a chess prodigy and holds the record for both the youngest International Master, eleven years and eleven months, and grandmaster in history, at the age of twelve years and seven months...
  
  
• 2009 Linares Grischuk, Ivanchuk
• 2009 Nalchik (Round 4 of FIDE Grand Prix 2008–2009) Aronian
• 2009 Sofia Shirov
• 2009 Poikovsky Motylev
  Alexander Motylev
  Alexander Anatolyevich Motylev is an International Grandmaster of chess and a former champion of Russia.He learnt how to play at the age of four and a half years and at age six took part in group instruction sessions. This is not uncommon in Russia where chess is very much part of the school...
  
  
• 2009 Bazna Ivanchuk
• 2009 Dortmund Kramnik
• 2009 San Sebastian Nakamura
  Hikaru Nakamura
  Hikaru Nakamura is an American chess Grandmaster . He has been ranked among the top six players in the world by FIDE....
  
  
• 2009 Biel Vachier-Lagrave
  Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
  Maxime Vachier-Lagrave is a French chess Grandmaster and the 2009 World Junior Chess Champion.-Grandmaster norms:He completed his final grandmaster norm at age 14 years, 4 months, in 2005....
  
  
• 2009 Jermuk (Round 5 of FIDE Grand Prix 2008–2009) Ivanchuk
• 2009 Bilbao
  Bilbao Chess Masters Final
  The Bilbao Chess Masters Final is one of the most important annual chess tournaments thanks to the level of the participants and the prizes at stake. It is a double round robin tournament typically featuring the winners of the grand slam chess tournaments which are part of the Grand Slam Chess...
  
  Aronian
• 2009 Nanjing Carlsen
• 2009 Moscow Kramnik
• 2009 Khanty-Mansiysk (Chess World Cup 2009
  Chess World Cup 2009
  The Chess World Cup 2009 was a 128-player single-elimination tournament, played between 20 November and 14 December 2009, in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. The Cup winner qualified for the Candidates stage of the World Chess Championship 2011. Boris Gelfand defeated Ruslan Ponomariov in the...
  
  ) Gelfand
• 2009 London (London Chess Classic
  London Chess Classic
  The London Chess Classic is a festival of the game of chess held at the Olympia Conference Centre, West Kensington, London. The flagship event is a strong invitational tournament between some of the world's top grandmasters...
  
  ) Carlsen

2010–2019

• 2010 Reggio Emilia Kamsky, Almasi
  Zoltan Almasi
  Zoltán Almási is a Grandmaster of chess from Hungary. He is a seven-time Hungarian Chess Champion, winning in 1995, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2006 and 2008...
  
  
• 2010 Wijk aan Zee
  Corus chess tournament
  The Tata Steel Chess Tournament formerly called the Corus chess tournament takes place every year, usually in January, in a small town called Wijk aan Zee, part of the larger Beverwijk in the province of North Holland in the Netherlands...
  
  Carlsen
• 2010 Gibraltar Adams
• 2010 Aeroflot Le Quang Liem
  Le Quang Liem
  Lê Quang Liêm is a leading Vietnamese chess player. He was the Under-14 World Youth Chess Champion in July 2005. He competed for Vietnam at the Chess Olympiads in 2006 and 2008....
  
  
• 2010 Linares Topalov
• 2010 Havana Ivanchuk
• 2010 Bazna Carlsen
• 2010 Dortmund Ponomariov
• 2010 Bilbao
  Bilbao Chess Masters Final
  The Bilbao Chess Masters Final is one of the most important annual chess tournaments thanks to the level of the participants and the prizes at stake. It is a double round robin tournament typically featuring the winners of the grand slam chess tournaments which are part of the Grand Slam Chess...
  
  Kramnik
• 2010 Nanjing Carlsen
• 2010 Hoogeveen Vachier-Lagrave
• 2010 Moscow Aronian, Karjakin, Mamedyarov
• 2010 London Carlsen
• 2011 Reggio Emilia Gashimov, Vallejo Pons
  Francisco Vallejo Pons
  Francisco Vallejo Pons is a chess Grandmaster from Spain. He was a chess prodigy, achieving the grandmaster title at the age of 16 years and 9 months, which makes him the 20th youngest player to ever become a grandmaster...
  
  
• 2011 Wijk aan Zee
  Corus chess tournament
  The Tata Steel Chess Tournament formerly called the Corus chess tournament takes place every year, usually in January, in a small town called Wijk aan Zee, part of the larger Beverwijk in the province of North Holland in the Netherlands...
  
  Nakamura
• 2011 Aeroflot Le Quang Liem, Vitiugov, Tomashevsky
• 2011 Havana Ivanchuk, Le Quang Liem
• 2011 Medias Carlsen, Karjakin
• 2011 Biel Carlsen
• 2011 Dortmund Kramnik
• 2011 Sao Paulo-Bilbao Carlsen
• 2011 Poikovsky Bacrot
• 2011 Saratov Morozevich
• 2011 Hoogeveen Kramnik
• 2011 Moscow Aronian, Carlsen

See also

• List of mini chess tournaments
• Chess tournaments
• Chess World Cup 2005
  Chess World Cup 2005
  The Chess World Cup 2005 served as a qualification tournament for the FIDE World Chess Championship 2007. It was held as a 128-player tournament, between 27 November and 17 December 2005, in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia....
  
  
• Chess World Cup 2007
  Chess World Cup 2007
  The Chess World Cup 2007 served as a qualification tournament for the World Chess Championship 2009. It was held as a 128-player single-elimination tournament, between 24 November and 16 December 2007, in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia....
  
  
• Chess Olympiad
  Chess Olympiad
  The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams from all over the world compete against each other. The event is organised by FIDE, which selects the host nation.-Birth of the Olympiad:The first Olympiad was unofficial...
  
  
• European Individual Chess Championship
• EU Individual Open Chess Championship
  EU Individual Open Chess Championship
  The EU Individual Open Championship was first contested in Cork, Ireland in 2005, under the auspices of organising body, the European Chess Union . The event is open to members of chess federations within the European Union...
  
  

External links

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