The Russian Chess Championship has taken various forms.
Winners by year (men)
Imperial Russia
In 1874,
Emanuel Schiffers
Emanuel (Emmanuel) Stepanovich Schiffers (russian: Эммануил Степанович Шифферс; – ) was a Russian chess player and chess writer. For many years he was the second leading Russian player after Mikhail Chigorin.
Schiffe ...
defeated
Andrey Chardin in a match held in
St. 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 ...
with five wins and four losses. Schiffers was considered the first
Russia
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n champion until his student,
Mikhail Chigorin
Mikhail Ivanovich Chigorin (also ''Tchigorin''; russian: Михаи́л Ива́нович Чиго́рин; – ) was a Russian chess player. He played two World Championship matches against Wilhelm Steinitz, losing both times. The last great ...
, defeated him in a match held in St. Petersburg in 1879. Chigorin won with seven wins, four losses, and two draws.
In 1899, the format of the championship was changed to a
round-robin tournament known as the All-Russian Masters' Tournament. The winners were:
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RSFSR
After the formation of the
USSR
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the
USSR Chess Championship
The USSR Chess Championship was played from 1921 to 1991. Organized by the USSR Chess Federation, it was the strongest national chess championship ever held, with eight world chess champions and four world championship finalists among its winner ...
was established as the national championship. However the Russian championship continued to exist as the championship of the
RSFSR. The first two USSR championships in 1920 and 1923 were also recognized as RSFSR championships; the modern numbering of Russian championships begins with these two tournaments. The cities
Moscow
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and
Leningrad
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 ...
held their own championships and their players were ineligible to play in the RSFSR championship. However, some did participate as outside competitors: for example, Taimanov finished with the same number of points as Tarasov in the 1960 championship, but only Tarasov was awarded the title as Taimanov was from Leningrad.
Rashid Nezhmetdinov
Rashid Gibiatovich Nezhmetdinov (Tatar: , ; russian: Раши́д Гибя́тович Нежметди́нов; December 15, 1912 – June 3, 1974) was a Soviet chess player, chess writer, and checkers player. Though he never attained the title ...
held the record of five wins of the Russian Chess Championship.
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Russian Federation
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Russian Championship was re-established as a national championship, and players from Moscow and St. Petersburg were allowed to participate. Prior to 2004, the championship was organized as a
Swiss-style tournament except for 1997 and 1999, where a knockout format was used. In 2004, the tournament reverted to a round robin with the strongest players in the country directly seeded into the final (called the Superfinal) held in Moscow while others progress through qualifying tournaments.
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Winners by year (women)
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Events by year
1997
Men
Third place match: GM
Alexey Dreev
Alexey Sergeyevich Dreev (, also transliterated as Aleksey or Alexei; born 30 January 1969) is a Russian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1989.
Career
While being a promising young chess talent, he was for a period ...
(2650) 1½:½ IM
Alexander Lastin
Alexander Lastin (russian: Александр Ластин; 30 November 1976 – 23 January 2015) was a Russian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1997.
Lastin was born in Arkhangelsk and at three years old he move ...
(2535)
1998
1999
Men
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
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2005
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2006
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=First-place tiebreak
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2007
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2008
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=Rapid playoff
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2009
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2010
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=First-place tiebreak
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2011
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2012
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=Rapid playoff
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2013
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2014
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2015
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2016
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2017
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2018
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2019
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2020
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=First-place tiebreak
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2021
Open
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References
External links
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RUSBASE (part V) 1919-1937,1991-1994
by Bill Wall.
Details on the 2007 edition
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