The Alekhine Memorial was a recurring

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, organized in different cities and irregular intervals, honoring the former world chess champion

Alexander Alekhine Alexander Aleksandrovich Alekhine, ''Aleksándr Aleksándrovich Alékhin''; (March 24, 1946) was a Russian and French chess player and the fourth World Chess Champion, a title he held for two reigns. By the age of 22, Alekhine was already a ...

. The Alekhine Memorial tournaments have no numbering (technically it is not a series), sometimes it is thus unclear whether or not an event can be regarded as an Alekhine Memorial (as for instance at

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in 1959 and the following Moscow Central Chess Club International tournaments). Immediately after Alekhine's death,

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won at

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in 1946 the first Alekhine Memorial ever held.

Winners

Alekhine Memorial 1992

Alekhine Memorial 1992 was held in

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in November. Field included such participants as former

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Anatoly Karpov Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov ( rus, links=no, Анато́лий Евге́ньевич Ка́рпов, p=ɐnɐˈtolʲɪj jɪvˈɡʲenʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈkarpəf; born May 23, 1951) is a Russian and former Soviet chess grandmaster, former World Ches ...

Alexei Shirov Alexei Shirov (, lv, Aleksejs Širovs; born 4 July 1972) is a Latvian and Spanish chess player. Shirov was ranked number two in the world in 1994. He won a match against Vladimir Kramnik in 1998 to qualify to play as challenger for the classic ...

Viswanathan Anand Viswanathan "Vishy" Anand (born 11 December 1969) is an Indian chess grandmaster and a former five-time World Chess Champion. He became the first grandmaster from India in 1988, and is one of the few players to have surpassed an Elo rating of ...

Boris Gelfand Boris Gelfand ( he, בוריס אברמוביץ' גלפנד; be, Барыс Абрамавіч Гельфанд, Barys Abramavich Hel'fand; russian: Борис Абрамович Гельфанд, Boris Abramovich Gel'fand; born 24 June 1968) ...

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and

Gata Kamsky Gata Kamsky ( tt-Cyrl, Гата Камский, italics=no; russian: Гата Камский; born June 2, 1974) is a Soviet-born American chess grandmaster, and a five-time U.S. champion. Kamsky reached the final of the FIDE World Chess Cham ...

, who were in top 10 at that time. First place was tied between Gelfand and Anand, while Kamsky finished in clear third. :

Alekhine Memorial 2013

The first part of the tournament (rounds 1–5) was held at the

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built in the

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, on 20–25 April 2013. The second part (rounds 6–9) was held at the

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Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

, on 28 April – 1 May 2013. The prize money of the tournament is

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100,000.

Tiebreaks

In the case that two or more players have equal points, the following criteria were utilized to decide the placings: # The largest number of games played with the black pieces. # The largest number of wins. # The result of the personal match. # The Koya score. # The Sonneborn-Berger score.

Standings

References

External links

Brasilbase: Standings of the 1946 tournamentWhyChess: Games of the 2013 tournamentChessBomb: Games of the 2013 tournament
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