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List Of Round-robin Chess Tournaments
This is a list of chess round-robin tournaments. Major present round-robin tournaments * Candidates Tournament of the World Chess Championship (1950–1962, 1985, 2013–) * Russian Chess Championship (most years) * U.S. Chess Championship (most years) * Beverwijk and Wijk aan Zee (Corus & Tata Steel Chess Tournament) * Sinquefield Cup * Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (most years) * Biel Chess Festival (most years) * Norway Chess * Shamkir Chess * Capablanca Memorial (most years) Major historic round-robin tournaments * London (1862) * Hastings (1895) * Nuremberg (1896) * Monte Carlo chess tournament (1901–1904, 1967–1969) * Ostend (B) (1907) * St. Petersburg (1909) * San Sebastian (1911) * Carlsbad (1911) * Mannheim (1914) * Carlsbad (1929) * San Remo (1930) * New York (1931) * Nottingham (1936) * Kemeri (1937) * AVRO tournament (1938) * General Government (1940–1944) * Munich (1942) * Groningen (1946) * World Chess Championship 1948 * Interzonal of the World ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chess
Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to distinguish it from related games, such as xiangqi (Chinese chess) and shogi (Japanese chess). The recorded history of chess goes back at least to the emergence of a similar game, chaturanga, in seventh-century India. The rules of chess as we know them today emerged in Europe at the end of the 15th century, with standardization and universal acceptance by the end of the 19th century. Today, chess is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide. Chess is an abstract strategy game that involves no hidden information and no use of dice or cards. It is played on a chessboard with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. At the start, each player controls sixteen pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chigorin Memorial
The Chigorin Memorial is a chess tournament played in honour of Mikhail Chigorin (1850–1908), founder of the Soviet Chess School and one of the leading players of his day. The first and most important edition was the one played in 1909 in St. Petersburg. Later on, an international invitation Memorial tournament series was established, and mainly played in the Black Sea resort Sochi (from 1963 to 1990). Further irregular tournaments had been held in 1947, 1951, 1961, and 1972, played in diverse venues. From 1993 the venue returned to his hometown. The Memorial is now played as an Open event. St. Petersburg 1909 President of the organising committee was Peter Petrovich Saburov, President of the St. Petersburg Chess Club. Members of the committee were Boris Maliutin, O. Sossnitzky, V. Tschudowski, Sergius A. Znosko-Borovsky and Eugene A. Znosko-Borovsky. The main event lasted from 14 February to 12 March 1909. : Rubinstein and Lasker won 875 rubles (each), Spielmann and Duras 4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Chess Championship 1948
The 1948 World Chess Championship was a quintuple round-robin tournament played to determine the new World Chess Champion following the death of the previous champion Alexander Alekhine in 1946. The tournament marked the passing of control of the championship title to FIDE, the International Chess Federation which had been formed in 1924. Mikhail Botvinnik won the five-player championship tournament, beginning the era of Soviet domination of international chess that would last over twenty years without interruption. Interregnum Previously, a new World Champion had won the title by defeating the former champion in a match. Alekhine's death created an ''interregnum'' (gap between reigns) that made the normal procedure impossible. The situation was very confusing, with many respected players and commentators offering different solutions. FIDE found it very difficult to organise the early discussions on how to resolve the ''interregnum'' due to problems with money, communication a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Groningen 1946 Chess Tournament
Groningen 1946 was the first major international chess tournament to be held after World War II.The USA–USSR 1945 Radio Match preceded it, although only two nations participated and the players did not meet in one location. Held at Groningen (city), 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. Summary Mikhail Botvinnik won the tournament a half point ahead of former World Chess Championship, World Champion Max Euwe. It was Botvinnik's first outright victory outside of the Soviet Union and Euwe's last major success. Groningen was the first tournament outside the Soviet Union to which the Soviets sent a team of masters to compete. The Soviet players were very successful, Botvinnik taking first, Vasily Smyslov third, and Isaac Boleslavsky and Salo Flohr tied for sixth and seventh, beginning an era of Soviet Union, Soviet domination of international chess. The tourn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
European Individual Chess Championship
The European Individual Chess Championship is a chess tournament organised by the European Chess Union. It was established in 2000 and has since then taken place on a yearly basis. Apart from determining the European champions (open and women's), another objective of this tournament is to determine a number of players who qualify for the FIDE World Cup and the knockout Women's World Championship. Mode of play The event consists of two separate tournaments; an open event, and a women's event. Female players may participate in the open section. Both are a Swiss system tournament, with a varying number of rounds. Historically, the only exception to this was the first Women's Championship tournament in 2000, which was held as a knockout tournament. In 2002, Judit Polgár narrowly missed out on the bronze medal in the open competition by losing a playoff match against Zurab Azmaiparashvili. In 2011, Polgár won the bronze medal in the open competition at Aix-les-Bains, France. Apar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
General Government Chess Tournament
General Government chess championships (''Schachmeisterschaft des Generalgouvernements'') were Nazi tournaments held during World War II in occupied central Poland. Hans Frank, the Governor-General of General Government, was the patron of those tournaments because he was an avid chess player. The competition began when he organized a chess congress in Krakow on 3 November 1940. Six months later Frank announced the establishment of a chess school under Chess grandmasters, Yefim Bogolyubov and Alexander Alekhine. Historical context A number of Polish chess players was arrested in January 1940. Jewish players were killed by Germans, e.g. Dawid Przepiórka. Ethnic Poles didn't participate in the tournaments. Participants *Alexander Alekhine Russia/France *Efim Bogoljubow Ukraine/Germany *Paul Felix Schmidt Estonia/Germany *Klaus Junge Chile/Germany *Karl Gilg Czechoslovakia/Germany *Josef Lokvenc Austria/Germany * Hans Müller Austria/Germany * Wolfgang Weil Austria/Germany * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AVRO Tournament
The AVRO tournament was a famous chess tournament held in the Netherlands in 1938, sponsored by the Dutch broadcasting company AVRO. The event was a double round-robin tournament between the eight strongest players in the world. Paul Keres and Reuben Fine tied for first place, with Keres winning on tiebreak by virtue of his 1½-½ score in their individual games. The tournament was presented as one to provide a challenger to World Champion Alexander Alekhine, though it had no official status. In any event, World War II dashed any hopes of a championship match for years to come. However, when FIDE organised its 1948 match tournament for the world title after Alekhine's death in 1946, it invited the six surviving AVRO participants (Capablanca had also died), except Flohr who was replaced by Vasily Smyslov. Schedule The AVRO tournament was played from November 6 to November 27, 1938. The players travelled from one city to another in the following order: Crosstable The lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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. Petrovs was one of the world's leading chess players in the late 1930s (e.g., the 8th Chess Olympiad at Buenos Aires 1939), but due to the political tragedies that befell the Baltic states in World War II, he became a victim of the Soviet oppression and perished in Kotlas (Russia) gulag The Gulag, an acronym for , , "chief administration of the camps". The original name given to the system of camps controlled by the GPU was the Main Administration of Corrective Labor Camps (, )., name=, group= was the government agency in ... in 1943. The final standings and crosstable: References External linksKemeri 1937 International Tournament Sport in Jūrmala International chess tournaments Chess in Latvia 1937 in chess 1937 in Latvian sport {{chess-tournament-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nottingham 1936 Chess Tournament
The Nottingham 1936 chess tournament was a 15-player round-robin tournament, round robin tournament held August 10–28 at the University of Nottingham. It was one of the list of strong chess tournaments, strongest of all time. Dr. J. Hannak wrote in his 1959 biography of Emanuel Lasker that "when it comes to awarding the plum for 'the greatest chess tournament ever', in 1936, the Nottingham Tournament was certainly just that". W. H. Watts in the Introduction to the tournament book called Nottingham 1936 "the most important chess event the world has so far seen". It is one of the very few tournaments in chess history to include five past, present, or future World Chess Championship, world champions (Lasker, José Raúl Capablanca, Alexander Alekhine, Alekhine, Max Euwe, Euwe and Mikhail Botvinnik, Botvinnik). A number of other prominent players, such as Reuben Fine, Samuel Reshevsky and Salo Flohr, were in the tournament. According to the unofficial Chessmetrics ratings, the tourn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York 1931 Chess Tournament
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San Remo 1930 Chess Tournament
San Remo 1930 was the first international chess tournament held in the San Remo casino. Sixteen chess masters including the world champion Alexander Alekhine, played a round-robin tournament from 16 January to 4 February 1930. The games were played in the casino during the day, and in the evening the playing hall was used for dancing. Alekhine dominated the field with a score of 14/15, 3½ points ahead of second-placed Aron Nimzowitsch Aron Nimzowitsch ( lv, Ārons Nimcovičs, russian: Аро́н Иса́евич Нимцо́вич, ''Aron Isayevich Nimtsovich''; 7 November 1886 – 16 March 1935) was a Latvian-born Danish chess player and writer. In the late 1920s, Nimz ..., and won 10,000 lire. The final standings and crosstable: References Further reading * *{{cite book, author= Robert Sherwood, title=San Remo 1930 International Chess Tournament, year=2013, publisher=Caissa Editions, isbn=9780939433742 Chess competitions Chess in Italy 1930 in chess 1930 in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlsbad 1929 Chess Tournament
The Carlsbad 1929 chess tournament was one of four well-known international chess tournaments held in the spa city of Carlsbad (Karlovy Vary, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia). The other tournament years were 1907, 1911 and 1923. The 1929 Carlsbad tournament was held at the Kurhaus (Kaiserbad) imperial bath hotel. Twenty-two masters, under the direction of Viktor Tietz, participated from July 30 to August 28, 1929. The world champion Alexander Alekhine did not play but he wrote six reports for ''The New York Times'' during the tournament. Women's world champion Vera Menchik participated. The results and standings: : Nimzowitsch got 20,000 Kronen, Capablanca and Spielmann 12,000 Kronen each, Rubinstein 8,000 Kronen, Becker, Vidmar and Euwe 5,000 Kronen each, and Bogoljubow 3,000 Kronen. Nimzowitsch expected to become challenger of the world champion and expressed his desire on his visiting cards. Unfortunately Alekhine crushed him in the San Remo 1930 chess tournament San Remo 1930 was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
