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This article lists some of the famous small
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s in history.


Introduction

The list comprises only regular tournaments with three or four players (''Triangular'' or ''Quadrangular''). The first international tournament with four players (two Spanish and two Italian) was held, at the invitation of King
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, at the Royal Court of Spain in
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in 1575.


Tournaments

* 1575 Madrid 1. Giovanni Leonardo da Cutri, 2.
Paolo Boi Paolo Boi (1528–1598) was an Italian chess player. He is considered to have been one of the greatest chess players of the 16th century. In 1549, he beat Pope Paul III in a chess match. Early life He was born in Syracuse, Italy, Syracuse, Sicil ...
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Ruy López de Segura Rodrigo "Ruy" López de Segura ( – c. 1580) was a Spanish chess player, author, and Catholic priest The priesthood is the office of the ministers of religion, who have been commissioned ("ordained") with the holy orders of the Catho ...
, 4. Alfonso Ceron * 1821 Saint Cloud (''Triangular'') 1.
Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais (1795 – December 1840) was a French chess master, possibly the strongest player in the early 19th century. Early life La Bourdonnais was born on the island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean in 1795. He w ...
, 2. Alexandre Deschapelles, 3. John Cochrane * 1855 London (''Triangular'') 1. Ernst Falkbeer, 2.
Adolf Zytogorski Adolf Żytogórski (or Adolph Zytogorski, , later known as John Hanstein) ( – 28 February 1882) was a Polish-British chess master and translator. Biography Details of Zytogorski's early life are sparse. He is usually said to have been born ...
, 3. Brien * 1865 Elberfeld 1. Gustav Neumann 2. Viktor Knorre 3. Hoeing 4. Pinedo * 1867 Cologne 1–2. Wilfried Paulsen, Conrad Vitzthum von Eckstaedt, 3–4. Ehrmann, Emil Schallopp * 1871 Krefeld (''Triangular'') 1.
Louis Paulsen Louis Paulsen (15 January 1833 in Gut Nassengrund near Blomberg, Principality of Lippe – 18 August 1891) was a German chess player. In the 1860s and 1870s, he was among the top players in the world. He was a younger brother of Wilfried Pa ...
, 2.
Adolf Anderssen Karl Ernst Adolf Anderssen (6 July 1818 – 13 March 1879)"Anderssen, Adolf" in ''Encyclopædia Britannica, The New Encyclopædia Britannica''. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 15th edn., 1992, Vol. 1, p. 385. was a German chess master. ...
, 3. Johannes Minckwitz * 1871 Wiesbaden 1.
Carl Göring Carl Theodor Göring (Goering) (28 April 1841 in Brüheim – 2 April 1879 in Eisenach) was a German professor, Philosophy, philosopher and chess Chess master, master. In 1870, he took 3rd in the first Austrian Chess Federation Congress, held ...
, 2. Adolf Stern, 3. Johannes Minckwitz, 4. Hermann von Hanneken * 1876 Düsseldorf 1. Wilfried Paulsen, 2–3. Ernst Flechsig, Constantin Schwede, 4. Asbeck * 1879 London 1.
Henry Edward Bird Henry Edward Bird (14 July 1829A date of 1830 has been given, but baptismal records indicate 1829. – 11 April 1908) was an English chess player, author and accountant. He wrote the books ''Chess History and Reminiscences'' and ''An Analysis ...
2–3.
Joseph Henry Blackburne Joseph Henry Blackburne (10 December 1841 – 1 September 1924) was a British chess player. Nicknamed "The Black Death", he dominated the British scene during the latter part of the 19th century. Blackburne learned the game at the relatively late ...
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James Mason James Neville Mason (; 15 May 190927 July 1984) was an English actor. He achieved considerable success in British cinema before becoming a star in Hollywood. He was nominated for three Academy Awards, three Golden Globes (winning once) and two ...
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George Alcock MacDonnell George Alcock MacDonnell (16 August 1830 in Dublin – 3 June 1899 in London) was an Anglican clergyman as well as a chess master and writer. He tied for 3rd-4th at London 1862 (the 5th British Chess Congress, Adolf Anderssen won), won two match ...
* 1883 Berlin 1. Hermann von Gottschall, 2. Emil Schallopp, 3. Max Harmonist, 4.
Berthold Lasker Berthold Lasker (also, per birth registry Jonathan Berthold Barnett Lasker)per birth registry (Archiwum Państwowe Gorzów Wielkopolski, Sąd Obwodowy w Barlinku, Duplikaty księg metrykalnych gminy żydowskiej, signature 66/886/0/3/4, item 105 ...
* 1889 Berlin 1. Emil Schallopp, 2. Theodor von Scheve, 3. Horatio Caro, 4. Hülsen * 1892 Belfast 1–2.
Joseph Henry Blackburne Joseph Henry Blackburne (10 December 1841 – 1 September 1924) was a British chess player. Nicknamed "The Black Death", he dominated the British scene during the latter part of the 19th century. Blackburne learned the game at the relatively late ...
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James Mason James Neville Mason (; 15 May 190927 July 1984) was an English actor. He achieved considerable success in British cinema before becoming a star in Hollywood. He was nominated for three Academy Awards, three Golden Globes (winning once) and two ...
, 3. Henry Bird, 4. Francis Joseph Lee * 1894 Buffalo 1. Jackson Showalter, 2. Harry Pillsbury, 3.
Adolf Albin Adolf Albin (14 September 1848 – 22 March 1920) was a Romanian chess player. He is best known for the countergambit that bears his name and for authoring the first chess book written in Romanian. Life He was born in Bucharest, Romania t ...
, 4. Farnsworth * 1895 Skaneateles 1. Eugene Delmar, 2. Richardson, 3. Albert Hodges, 4. Luce * 1895 Hastings 1.
Géza Maróczy Géza Maróczy (; 3 March 1870 – 29 May 1951) was a Hungarian chess player, one of the leading players in the world in his time. He was one of the inaugural recipients of the Grandmaster (chess), International Grandmaster title from FIDE in 1 ...
2–3. Henry Ernest Atkins, Rudolf Loman, 4. Wilhelm Cohn * 1895/96 St. Petersburg 1.
Emanuel Lasker Emanuel Lasker (; December 24, 1868 – January 11, 1941) was a German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher. He was the second World Chess Champion, holding the title for 27 years, from 1894 to 1921, the longest reign of any officially ...
, 2.
Wilhelm Steinitz William Steinitz (born Wilhelm Steinitz; May 14, 1836 – August 12, 1900) was a Bohemian-Austrian, and later American, chess player. From 1886 to 1894, he was the first World Chess Champion. He was also a highly influential writer and c ...
, 3. Harry Pillsbury, 4.
Mikhail Chigorin Mikhail Ivanovich Chigorin (also ''Tchigorin''; ; – ) was a Russian chess player. He played two World Championship matches against Wilhelm Steinitz, losing both times. The last great player of the Romantic chess style, he also served as a ma ...
* 1896 Vienna 1.
Berthold Englisch Berthold Englisch (9 July 1851 in Hotzenplotz – 19 October 1897 in Vienna) was a chess master from Austria-Hungary. Englisch was born in Austrian Silesia, Austrian Empire into a Jewish family. He earned his living as a stock-market agent. He ...
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Carl Schlechter Carl Schlechter (2 March 1874 – 27 December 1918) was a leading Austro-Hungarian chess master and theoretician at the turn of the 20th century. He is best known for drawing a controversial World Chess Championship match with Emanuel Lasker. Ea ...
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Georg Marco Georg Marco (29 November 1863 – 29 August 1923) was an Austrian Chess, chess player. He was born in Chernivtsi (Cernăuţi), Bukovina (then part of Austria-Hungary). He later settled in Vienna and was secretary of the Viennese Chess Associatio ...
, 4.
Max Weiss Miksa (Max) Weisz (21 July 1857 – 14 March 1927) 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. Wei ...
* 1897 New York (''Triangular'') 1–2.
Wilhelm Steinitz William Steinitz (born Wilhelm Steinitz; May 14, 1836 – August 12, 1900) was a Bohemian-Austrian, and later American, chess player. From 1886 to 1894, he was the first World Chess Champion. He was also a highly influential writer and c ...
, Samuel Lipschütz, 3. William Ewart Napier * 1897 Altona 1. Johannes Metger, 2.
Hugo Süchting Hugo Süchting (Suechting) (8 October 1874 – 27 December 1916) was a German chess player. He won at Kiel 1893 (the 8th DSB Congress, ''Hauptturnier'') took 13th at Leipzig 1894 (the 9th DSB-Congress, Siegbert Tarrasch won), shared 2nd wi ...
, 3–4. Martin Bier, Julius Dimer * 1898 Budapest 1.
Rudolf Charousek Rudolf Charousek (; 19 September 1873 – 18 April 1900) was a Czech born Hungarian chess player. One of the top ten players in the world during the 1890s, he had a short career, dying at the age of 26 from tuberculosis. Reuben Fine wrote of h ...
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Géza Maróczy Géza Maróczy (; 3 March 1870 – 29 May 1951) was a Hungarian chess player, one of the leading players in the world in his time. He was one of the inaugural recipients of the Grandmaster (chess), International Grandmaster title from FIDE in 1 ...
, 3. Győző Exner, 4. Arthur Havasi * 1898 Elmshorn 1–4.
Hugo Süchting Hugo Süchting (Suechting) (8 October 1874 – 27 December 1916) was a German chess player. He won at Kiel 1893 (the 8th DSB Congress, ''Hauptturnier'') took 13th at Leipzig 1894 (the 9th DSB-Congress, Siegbert Tarrasch won), shared 2nd wi ...
, Martin Bier, Julius Dimer, Arved Heinrichsen * 1899 Budapest (''Triangular'') 1.
Géza Maróczy Géza Maróczy (; 3 March 1870 – 29 May 1951) was a Hungarian chess player, one of the leading players in the world in his time. He was one of the inaugural recipients of the Grandmaster (chess), International Grandmaster title from FIDE in 1 ...
, 2. Győző Exner, 3. Miklós Bródy * 1900 Munich 1–2.
Carl Göring Carl Theodor Göring (Goering) (28 April 1841 in Brüheim – 2 April 1879 in Eisenach) was a German professor, Philosophy, philosopher and chess Chess master, master. In 1870, he took 3rd in the first Austrian Chess Federation Congress, held ...
, Abraham Speijer, 3–4. Julius Dimer, Dirk Bleijkmans * 1900 Kiel 1–2.
Hugo Süchting Hugo Süchting (Suechting) (8 October 1874 – 27 December 1916) was a German chess player. He won at Kiel 1893 (the 8th DSB Congress, ''Hauptturnier'') took 13th at Leipzig 1894 (the 9th DSB-Congress, Siegbert Tarrasch won), shared 2nd wi ...
, Oskar Antze 3. Johannes Metger, 4. Hermes * 1901 Kiel 1–2.
Hugo Süchting Hugo Süchting (Suechting) (8 October 1874 – 27 December 1916) was a German chess player. He won at Kiel 1893 (the 8th DSB Congress, ''Hauptturnier'') took 13th at Leipzig 1894 (the 9th DSB-Congress, Siegbert Tarrasch won), shared 2nd wi ...
, Johannes Metger, 3. Oeltjen, 4. Julius Dimer * 1901 Paris 1–2. Stanislaus Sittenfeld,
Adolf Albin Adolf Albin (14 September 1848 – 22 March 1920) was a Romanian chess player. He is best known for the countergambit that bears his name and for authoring the first chess book written in Romanian. Life He was born in Bucharest, Romania t ...
, 3. Jean Taubenhaus, 4. Maurice Billecard * 1901 Craigside 1.
Amos Burn Amos Burn (31 December 1848 – 25 November 1925) was an English chess player, one of the world's leading players at the end of the 19th century, and a chess writer. Burn was born on New Year's Eve, 1848, in Hull.Richard Forster, ''Amos Burn: ...
, 2. Henry Ernest Atkins, 3. Gunston, 4. Bellingham * 1902 Paris 1.
Dawid Janowski Dawid Markelowicz Janowski (25 May 1868 – 15 January 1927; often spelled ''David'') was a Polish chess player. Several opening variations are named after Janowski. Biography Born into a Jewish-Polish family in Wołkowysk, Russian Empire ...
, 2. Jean Taubenhaus, 3. Theodor von Scheve, 4.
Adolf Albin Adolf Albin (14 September 1848 – 22 March 1920) was a Romanian chess player. He is best known for the countergambit that bears his name and for authoring the first chess book written in Romanian. Life He was born in Bucharest, Romania t ...
* 1902 Carlsbad (''Triangular'') 1. Viktor Tietz, 2.
Dawid Janowski Dawid Markelowicz Janowski (25 May 1868 – 15 January 1927; often spelled ''David'') was a Polish chess player. Several opening variations are named after Janowski. Biography Born into a Jewish-Polish family in Wołkowysk, Russian Empire ...
, Moritz Porges * 1902 Vienna 1. Leopold Löwy, Jr, 2. Augustin Neumann, 3. Julius Perlis, 4. Siegfried Reginald Wolf * 1902 Berlin 1.
Ossip Bernstein Ossip Samoilovich Bernstein (20 September 1882 – 30 November 1962) was a French chess player and businessman. He was one of the inaugural recipients of the title Grandmaster (chess), International Grandmaster from FIDE in 1950. Biography Born ...
, 2–3. Erich Cohn, Oskar Piotrowski, 4. Iosif Januschpolski * 1903 Hamburg 1.
Hugo Süchting Hugo Süchting (Suechting) (8 October 1874 – 27 December 1916) was a German chess player. He won at Kiel 1893 (the 8th DSB Congress, ''Hauptturnier'') took 13th at Leipzig 1894 (the 9th DSB-Congress, Siegbert Tarrasch won), shared 2nd wi ...
, 2. Carl Carls, 3. Johannes Metger, 4. Julius Dimer * 1904 Munich 1. Rudolf Spielmann, 2. Friedrich Köhnlein, 3. Moissei Eljaschoff, 4. Kürschner * 1904 Lemberg 1. Emil Gross, 2. Karol Irzykowski, 3. Ignatz von Popiel, 4. Kasimir de Weydlich * 1904 Sylvan Beach 1. Frank Marshall, 2. Howard, 3. Roething, 4. Guckemus * 1905 Hamburg 1. Rudolf Spielmann, 2. Julius Dimer, 3. Oeltjen, 4. Oskar Antze * 1905 Ostend 1.
Georg Marco Georg Marco (29 November 1863 – 29 August 1923) was an Austrian Chess, chess player. He was born in Chernivtsi (Cernăuţi), Bukovina (then part of Austria-Hungary). He later settled in Vienna and was secretary of the Viennese Chess Associatio ...
, 2–3. Frank Marshall, Paul Saladin Leonhardt, 4.
Richard Teichmann Richard Teichmann (24 December 1868 – 15 June 1925) was a German chess master and a chess composer. He was known as "Richard the Fifth" because he often finished in fifth place in tournaments. But in 1911 he scored a convincing win in Karl ...
* 1905 Łódź (''Triangular'') 1–2.
Akiba Rubinstein Akiba Kiwelowicz Rubinstein (1 December 1880 – 14 March 1961) was a Polish chess player. He is considered to have been one of the greatest players never to have become World Chess Champion. Rubinstein was granted the title International Grandma ...
, Gersz Salwe, 3. Fedor Duz-Khotimirsky * 1906 Trenton Falls 1.
Emanuel Lasker Emanuel Lasker (; December 24, 1868 – January 11, 1941) was a German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher. He was the second World Chess Champion, holding the title for 27 years, from 1894 to 1921, the longest reign of any officially ...
, 2. Curt, 3. Albert Fox, 4. Raubitschek * 1906 Łódź 1.
Akiba Rubinstein Akiba Kiwelowicz Rubinstein (1 December 1880 – 14 March 1961) was a Polish chess player. He is considered to have been one of the greatest players never to have become World Chess Champion. Rubinstein was granted the title International Grandma ...
, 2.
Mikhail Chigorin Mikhail Ivanovich Chigorin (also ''Tchigorin''; ; – ) was a Russian chess player. He played two World Championship matches against Wilhelm Steinitz, losing both times. The last great player of the Romantic chess style, he also served as a ma ...
, 3. Alexander Flamberg, 4. Gersz Salwe * 1906 St. Petersburg 1. Simon Alapin, 2.
Mikhail Chigorin Mikhail Ivanovich Chigorin (also ''Tchigorin''; ; – ) was a Russian chess player. He played two World Championship matches against Wilhelm Steinitz, losing both times. The last great player of the Romantic chess style, he also served as a ma ...
, 3. Evtifiev, 4. Eugene Znosko-Borovsky * 1906 Bremen 1–2. Wilhelm Hilse, Sohège, 3. Julius Dimer, 4. Oskar Antze * 1907 Hanover 1. Carl Carls, 2–3.
Hugo Süchting Hugo Süchting (Suechting) (8 October 1874 – 27 December 1916) was a German chess player. He won at Kiel 1893 (the 8th DSB Congress, ''Hauptturnier'') took 13th at Leipzig 1894 (the 9th DSB-Congress, Siegbert Tarrasch won), shared 2nd wi ...
, Albert Edelheim, 4. Wilhelm Hilse * 1907 Warsaw 1. Alexander Flamberg, 2. Salomon Langleben, 3. Lucian Einbild, 4. Jan Kleczyński Jr. * 1908 Łódź (''Triangular'') 1.
Akiba Rubinstein Akiba Kiwelowicz Rubinstein (1 December 1880 – 14 March 1961) was a Polish chess player. He is considered to have been one of the greatest players never to have become World Chess Champion. Rubinstein was granted the title International Grandma ...
, 2. Frank Marshall, 3. Gersz Salwe * 1908 Warsaw 1. Simon Alapin, 2. Gersz Salwe, 3. Alexander Flamberg, 4. Salomon Langleben * 1908 St. Petersburg 1. Sergey Lebedev, 2. Sergey von Freymann, 3. Alexander Romanovsky, 4. Grigory Helbach * 1908 Trenton Falls 1. Clarence Howell, 2. Leon Rosen, 3. Sharp, 4. Eugene Delmar * 1909 Göteborg 1.
Milan Vidmar Milan Vidmar (; 22 June 1885 – 9 October 1962) was a Slovenian electrical engineer, chess player, chess theorist, and writer. He was among the top dozen chess players in the world from 1910 to 1930 and in 1950, was among the inaugural recip ...
, 2. Paul Saladin Leonhardt, 3. Oldřich Duras, 4. Sjøberg * 1909 Munich 1.
Richard Teichmann Richard Teichmann (24 December 1868 – 15 June 1925) was a German chess master and a chess composer. He was known as "Richard the Fifth" because he often finished in fifth place in tournaments. But in 1911 he scored a convincing win in Karl ...
, 2. Simon Alapin, 3. Rudolf Spielmann, 4.
Dawid Przepiórka Dawid Przepiórka (22 December 1880 – presumed April 1940) was a History of the Jews in Poland, Jewish-Polish chess player of the early twentieth century, who won the first Polish championship. Biography Dawid Przepiórka was born 22 Decemb ...
* 1909 Munich 1. Hans Fahrni, 2.
Savielly Tartakower Savielly Tartakower (also known as ''Xavier'' or ''Ksawery'' ''Tartakower'', less often ''Tartacover'' or ''Tartakover''; 21 February 1887 – 4 February 1956) was a Polish chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster (chess), Internatio ...
, 3–4. Simon Alapin, Rudolf Spielmann * 1911 Munich 1. Simon Alapin, 2. Rudolf Spielmann, 3. Solomon Rosenthal, 4. Hans Fahrni * 1911 Munich 1. Simon Alapin, 2. Gersz Rotlewi, 3. Rudolf Spielmann, 4. Hans Fahrni * 1911 Barmbek 1. Wilhelm Hilse, 2–3.
Hugo Süchting Hugo Süchting (Suechting) (8 October 1874 – 27 December 1916) was a German chess player. He won at Kiel 1893 (the 8th DSB Congress, ''Hauptturnier'') took 13th at Leipzig 1894 (the 9th DSB-Congress, Siegbert Tarrasch won), shared 2nd wi ...
, Julius Dimer, 4. Carl Carls * 1911 Kitzingen (''Triangular'') 1. Andreas Duhm, 2. Hrdina, 3. Friedrich Köhnlein * 1911 Amsterdam 1–2. Frank Marshall, Arnold van Foreest, 3. Adolf Georg Olland, 4. Johannes Esser * 1913 New York 1. Frank Marshall 2. Oldřich Duras, 3. Oscar Chajes, 4. Charles Jaffe * 1913 Warsaw (''Triangular'') 1. Alexander Flamberg, 2. Oldřich Duras, 3.
Moishe Lowtzky Moishe (Mojżesz) Lowtzky (Łowcki) (1881–1940) was a Ukrainian–Polish chess master. Biography He was born into a Jewish family in Ukraine. In 1903, Lowtzky tied for 6-7th with Eugene Znosko-Borovsky in Kyiv (3rd RUS-ch). The event was won ...
* 1913 Łódź 1. Gersz Salwe, 2. Rosenbaum, 3. Gottesdiener, 4. Moshe Hirschbein * 1913 St. Petersburg 1–2.
Alexander Alekhine Alexander Aleksandrovich Alekhine. He disliked when Russians sometimes pronounced the of as , , which he regarded as a Yiddish distortion of his name, and insisted that the correct Russian pronunciation was . (March 24, 1946) was a Russian ...
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Grigory Levenfish Grigory Yakovlevich Levenfish (; – 9 February 1961) was a Soviet chess player who scored his peak competitive results in the 1920s and 1930s. He was twice Soviet champion, in 1934 (jointly with Ilya Rabinovich) and 1937. In 1937 he drew a m ...
, 3–4. Oldřich Duras, Eugene Znosko-Borovsky * 1914 Kiev 1. Alexander Evensohn, 2. Efim Bogoljubov, 3. Fedir Bohatyrchuk, 4. Nikolai Grekov * 1914 Paris 1–2. Frank Marshall,
Alexander Alekhine Alexander Aleksandrovich Alekhine. He disliked when Russians sometimes pronounced the of as , , which he regarded as a Yiddish distortion of his name, and insisted that the correct Russian pronunciation was . (March 24, 1946) was a Russian ...
, 3. André Muffang, 4. B. Hallegua * 1914 Berlin 1–2. Rudolf Spielmann, Erich Cohn, 3.
Richard Teichmann Richard Teichmann (24 December 1868 – 15 June 1925) was a German chess master and a chess composer. He was known as "Richard the Fifth" because he often finished in fifth place in tournaments. But in 1911 he scored a convincing win in Karl ...
, 4.
Jacques Mieses Jacques Mieses (born Jacob Mieses; 27 February 1865 – 23 February 1954) was a German chess player. Mieses, who was Jewish, fled the Nazi regime in 1938 and later became a British citizen. Hooper, David and Kenneth Whyld 1996. ''The Oxford comp ...
* 1914 Vienna 1. Siegfried Reginald Wolf, 2.
Ernst Grünfeld ---- Ernst Franz Grünfeld (November 21, 1893 – April 3, 1962) was an Austrian chess player and writer, mainly on chess opening, opening Chess theory, theory. He was among the inaugural recipients of the Grandmaster (chess), grandmaster t ...
, 3. Sauer, 4. Willman * 1915 Vienna 1. Józef Dominik, 2–3. Josef Krejcik, Kalikst Morawski, 4.
Richard Réti Richard Réti (28 May 1889 – 6 June 1929) was an Austro-Hungarian and later Czechoslovak chess player, chess author and composer of endgame studies. He was one of the principal proponents of hypermodernism in chess. With the exception of N ...
* 1915 Atlantic City (''Triangular'') 1. Frank Marshall, 2. Sharp, 3. Moorman * 1915/16 Triberg (''Triangular'') 1. Efim Bogoljubov, 2. Ilya Rabinovich, 3. Alexey Selezniev * 1916 Tampa 1. Moorman, 2–3. Jackson Whipps Showalter, Traube, 4. Hernandes * 1916 Budapest 1. Gyula Breyer, 2. Zoltán von Balla, 3.
Richard Réti Richard Réti (28 May 1889 – 6 June 1929) was an Austro-Hungarian and later Czechoslovak chess player, chess author and composer of endgame studies. He was one of the principal proponents of hypermodernism in chess. With the exception of N ...
, 4. Johannes Esser * 1916/17 Vienna (''Triangular'') 1.
Carl Schlechter Carl Schlechter (2 March 1874 – 27 December 1918) was a leading Austro-Hungarian chess master and theoretician at the turn of the 20th century. He is best known for drawing a controversial World Chess Championship match with Emanuel Lasker. Ea ...
, 2.
Milan Vidmar Milan Vidmar (; 22 June 1885 – 9 October 1962) was a Slovenian electrical engineer, chess player, chess theorist, and writer. He was among the top dozen chess players in the world from 1910 to 1930 and in 1950, was among the inaugural recip ...
, 3. Arthur Kaufmann * 1916/17 Łódź 1. Gersz Salwe, 2.
Teodor Regedziński Teodor (Theodor, Theodore) Regedziński (Regedzinski, Reger) (28 April 1894 – 2 August 1954) was a Polish chess master of German origin. Biography Born Poland (near Łódź), Regedziński was of German origin as his father, named Reger. He ...
, 3. Samuel Factor, 4. Moshe Hirschbein * 1917 Triberg 1–2. Ilya Rabinovich, Alexey Selezniev, 3. Efim Bogoljubov, 4. Samuil Weinstein * 1917 Havana (''Triangular'') 1. Clarence Howell, 2. Juan Corzo, 3. Blanco * 1917 London (''Triangular'') 1. George Edward Wainwright, 2. Philip Sergeant, 3. Macdonald * 1917/18 Vienna 1.
Milan Vidmar Milan Vidmar (; 22 June 1885 – 9 October 1962) was a Slovenian electrical engineer, chess player, chess theorist, and writer. He was among the top dozen chess players in the world from 1910 to 1930 and in 1950, was among the inaugural recip ...
, 2.
Savielly Tartakower Savielly Tartakower (also known as ''Xavier'' or ''Ksawery'' ''Tartakower'', less often ''Tartacover'' or ''Tartakover''; 21 February 1887 – 4 February 1956) was a Polish chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster (chess), Internatio ...
, 3.
Carl Schlechter Carl Schlechter (2 March 1874 – 27 December 1918) was a leading Austro-Hungarian chess master and theoretician at the turn of the 20th century. He is best known for drawing a controversial World Chess Championship match with Emanuel Lasker. Ea ...
, 4. Lajos Asztalos * 1918 Berlin 1.
Milan Vidmar Milan Vidmar (; 22 June 1885 – 9 October 1962) was a Slovenian electrical engineer, chess player, chess theorist, and writer. He was among the top dozen chess players in the world from 1910 to 1930 and in 1950, was among the inaugural recip ...
, 2.
Carl Schlechter Carl Schlechter (2 March 1874 – 27 December 1918) was a leading Austro-Hungarian chess master and theoretician at the turn of the 20th century. He is best known for drawing a controversial World Chess Championship match with Emanuel Lasker. Ea ...
, 3.
Jacques Mieses Jacques Mieses (born Jacob Mieses; 27 February 1865 – 23 February 1954) was a German chess player. Mieses, who was Jewish, fled the Nazi regime in 1938 and later became a British citizen. Hooper, David and Kenneth Whyld 1996. ''The Oxford comp ...
, 4.
Akiba Rubinstein Akiba Kiwelowicz Rubinstein (1 December 1880 – 14 March 1961) was a Polish chess player. He is considered to have been one of the greatest players never to have become World Chess Champion. Rubinstein was granted the title International Grandma ...
* 1918 Berlin 1.
Emanuel Lasker Emanuel Lasker (; December 24, 1868 – January 11, 1941) was a German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher. He was the second World Chess Champion, holding the title for 27 years, from 1894 to 1921, the longest reign of any officially ...
, 2.
Akiba Rubinstein Akiba Kiwelowicz Rubinstein (1 December 1880 – 14 March 1961) was a Polish chess player. He is considered to have been one of the greatest players never to have become World Chess Champion. Rubinstein was granted the title International Grandma ...
, 3.
Carl Schlechter Carl Schlechter (2 March 1874 – 27 December 1918) was a leading Austro-Hungarian chess master and theoretician at the turn of the 20th century. He is best known for drawing a controversial World Chess Championship match with Emanuel Lasker. Ea ...
, 4.
Siegbert Tarrasch Siegbert Tarrasch (; 5 March 1862 – 17 February 1934) was a German chess player, considered to have been among the strongest players and most influential theoreticians of the late 19th and early 20th century. Life Tarrasch was born in Bresla ...
* 1918 Moscow (''Triangular'') 1.
Alexander Alekhine Alexander Aleksandrovich Alekhine. He disliked when Russians sometimes pronounced the of as , , which he regarded as a Yiddish distortion of his name, and insisted that the correct Russian pronunciation was . (March 24, 1946) was a Russian ...
, 2.
Vladimir Nenarokov Vladimir Ivanovich Nenarokov (January 4, 1880 – December 13, 1953) was a chess master and theoretician. Born in Moscow, he was one of the strongest masters in his home town around 1900. In 1899, he tied for 6-7th in Moscow (1st Russian Champio ...
, 3. Abram Rabinovich * 1918 Amsterdam 1. Max Marchand, 2–3. van Gelder, Arnold van Foreest, 4. Abraham Speijer * 1918 Hertogenbosch 1–2. Jan Willem te Kolsté, Gerard Oskam, 3. Max Marchand, 4. Norden * 1919 Stockholm 1. Rudolf Spielmann, 2.
Akiba Rubinstein Akiba Kiwelowicz Rubinstein (1 December 1880 – 14 March 1961) was a Polish chess player. He is considered to have been one of the greatest players never to have become World Chess Champion. Rubinstein was granted the title International Grandma ...
, 3. Efim Bogoljubov, 4.
Richard Réti Richard Réti (28 May 1889 – 6 June 1929) was an Austro-Hungarian and later Czechoslovak chess player, chess author and composer of endgame studies. He was one of the principal proponents of hypermodernism in chess. With the exception of N ...
* 1919 Berlin 1. Efim Bogoljubov, 2. Alexey Selezniev, 3–4. Rudolf Spielmann,
Richard Réti Richard Réti (28 May 1889 – 6 June 1929) was an Austro-Hungarian and later Czechoslovak chess player, chess author and composer of endgame studies. He was one of the principal proponents of hypermodernism in chess. With the exception of N ...
* 1919 Berlin 1. Alexey Selezniev, 2. Efim Bogoljubov, 3.
Friedrich Sämisch Friedrich Sämisch (20 September 1896 – 16 August 1975) was a German chess player and chess theorist. He was among the inaugural recipients of the title International Grandmaster from FIDE in 1950. Background Sämisch was a bookbinder ...
, 4. Curt von Bardeleben * 1919 Berlin (''Triangular'') 1. Walter John, 2. Ehrhardt Post, 3. Bernhard Gregory * 1919 Troy 1. Abraham Kupchik, 2. Charles Jaffe, 3. Oscar Chajes, 4. Jacob Bernstein * 1919/20 Hastings 1. Frederick Yates, 2. Scott, 3. Henry Ernest Atkins, 4. Richard Griffith * 1920 Genova 1. Stefano Rosselli, 2. Davide Marotti, 3. Dolci, 4. Bernheimer * 1920 Utrecht 1.
Géza Maróczy Géza Maróczy (; 3 March 1870 – 29 May 1951) was a Hungarian chess player, one of the leading players in the world in his time. He was one of the inaugural recipients of the Grandmaster (chess), International Grandmaster title from FIDE in 1 ...
, 2.
Savielly Tartakower Savielly Tartakower (also known as ''Xavier'' or ''Ksawery'' ''Tartakower'', less often ''Tartacover'' or ''Tartakover''; 21 February 1887 – 4 February 1956) was a Polish chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster (chess), Internatio ...
, 3. Adolf Olland, 4. Gerard Oskam * 1920 Amsterdam 1.
Max Euwe Machgielis "Max" Euwe (; May 20, 1901 – November 26, 1981) was a Dutch chess player, mathematician, author, and chess administrator. He was the fifth player to become World Chess Championship, World Chess Champion, a title he held from 1935 ...
, 2. te Kolsté, 3. van Hoorn, 4. Max Marchand * 1920 Rotterdam 1.
Akiba Rubinstein Akiba Kiwelowicz Rubinstein (1 December 1880 – 14 March 1961) was a Polish chess player. He is considered to have been one of the greatest players never to have become World Chess Champion. Rubinstein was granted the title International Grandma ...
, 2–3. Samuel Factor, Abraham Speijer, 4. van Gelder * 1920 Łódź 1. Moshe Hirschbein, 2. Rosenbaum, 3. Gottesdiener, 4. Jakub Kolski * 1920 Vienna 1.
Savielly Tartakower Savielly Tartakower (also known as ''Xavier'' or ''Ksawery'' ''Tartakower'', less often ''Tartacover'' or ''Tartakover''; 21 February 1887 – 4 February 1956) was a Polish chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster (chess), Internatio ...
, 2.
Ernst Grünfeld ---- Ernst Franz Grünfeld (November 21, 1893 – April 3, 1962) was an Austrian chess player and writer, mainly on chess opening, opening Chess theory, theory. He was among the inaugural recipients of the Grandmaster (chess), grandmaster t ...
, 3.
Géza Maróczy Géza Maróczy (; 3 March 1870 – 29 May 1951) was a Hungarian chess player, one of the leading players in the world in his time. He was one of the inaugural recipients of the Grandmaster (chess), International Grandmaster title from FIDE in 1 ...
, 4.
Benjamin Blumenfeld Benjamin Blumenfeld (24 May 1884, Vilkaviškis – 5 March 1947, Moscow) was a Russian chess master. He was born in Vilkaviškis, in the Suwałki Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Lithuania). In 1905/06 he tied for second/third wit ...
* 1921 Kiel 1. Efim Bogoljubov, 2–3. Alfred Brinckmann,
Friedrich Sämisch Friedrich Sämisch (20 September 1896 – 16 August 1975) was a German chess player and chess theorist. He was among the inaugural recipients of the title International Grandmaster from FIDE in 1950. Background Sämisch was a bookbinder ...
, 4.
Richard Réti Richard Réti (28 May 1889 – 6 June 1929) was an Austro-Hungarian and later Czechoslovak chess player, chess author and composer of endgame studies. He was one of the principal proponents of hypermodernism in chess. With the exception of N ...
* 1921 Hamburg 1. Heinrich Wagner, 2. Paul Krüger, 3. Wilhelm Schönmann, 4. Julius Dimer * 1921 New York 1–2. Frank Marshall, Forsberg, 3. Charles Jaffe, 4 Albert Hodges * 1921 Utrecht 1. Adolf Olland, 2. Willem Schelfhout, 3. Victor Kahn, 4. Piccardt * 1921 Triberg 1.
Akiba Rubinstein Akiba Kiwelowicz Rubinstein (1 December 1880 – 14 March 1961) was a Polish chess player. He is considered to have been one of the greatest players never to have become World Chess Champion. Rubinstein was granted the title International Grandma ...
, 2–3. Efim Bogoljubov, Rudolf Spielmann, 4. Alexey Selezniev * 1921 Baden-Baden 1. Dietrich Duhm, 2. Weissinger, 3. Sartori, 4. Andreas Duhm * 1922 Mannheim (''Triangular'') 1.
Siegbert Tarrasch Siegbert Tarrasch (; 5 March 1862 – 17 February 1934) was a German chess player, considered to have been among the strongest players and most influential theoreticians of the late 19th and early 20th century. Life Tarrasch was born in Bresla ...
, 2. Paul Saladin Leonhardt, 3.
Jacques Mieses Jacques Mieses (born Jacob Mieses; 27 February 1865 – 23 February 1954) was a German chess player. Mieses, who was Jewish, fled the Nazi regime in 1938 and later became a British citizen. Hooper, David and Kenneth Whyld 1996. ''The Oxford comp ...
* 1922 Paris (''Triangular'') 1. André Muffang, 2.
Frédéric Lazard Frédéric Lazard (20 February 1883, in Marseille – 18 November 1948, in Le Vésinet) was a French chess master, problemist and journalist. He lived in Paris, where he played in many local tournaments. He took twice 4th place in 1905, shared 3 ...
, 3. Amédée Gibaud * 1922 Scheveningen 1–2.
Max Euwe Machgielis "Max" Euwe (; May 20, 1901 – November 26, 1981) was a Dutch chess player, mathematician, author, and chess administrator. He was the fifth player to become World Chess Championship, World Chess Champion, a title he held from 1935 ...
, George Salto Fontein, 3–4. Rudolf Loman, Alexander Rueb * 1924 Berlin 1. Paul Johner, 2.
Akiba Rubinstein Akiba Kiwelowicz Rubinstein (1 December 1880 – 14 March 1961) was a Polish chess player. He is considered to have been one of the greatest players never to have become World Chess Champion. Rubinstein was granted the title International Grandma ...
, 3.
Richard Teichmann Richard Teichmann (24 December 1868 – 15 June 1925) was a German chess master and a chess composer. He was known as "Richard the Fifth" because he often finished in fifth place in tournaments. But in 1911 he scored a convincing win in Karl ...
, 4.
Jacques Mieses Jacques Mieses (born Jacob Mieses; 27 February 1865 – 23 February 1954) was a German chess player. Mieses, who was Jewish, fled the Nazi regime in 1938 and later became a British citizen. Hooper, David and Kenneth Whyld 1996. ''The Oxford comp ...
* 1925 Amsterdam 1. Jacques Davidson, 2.
Max Euwe Machgielis "Max" Euwe (; May 20, 1901 – November 26, 1981) was a Dutch chess player, mathematician, author, and chess administrator. He was the fifth player to become World Chess Championship, World Chess Champion, a title he held from 1935 ...
, 3–4.
Friedrich Sämisch Friedrich Sämisch (20 September 1896 – 16 August 1975) was a German chess player and chess theorist. He was among the inaugural recipients of the title International Grandmaster from FIDE in 1950. Background Sämisch was a bookbinder ...
, Henri Weenink * 1925 Bern 1.
Alexander Alekhine Alexander Aleksandrovich Alekhine. He disliked when Russians sometimes pronounced the of as , , which he regarded as a Yiddish distortion of his name, and insisted that the correct Russian pronunciation was . (March 24, 1946) was a Russian ...
, 2. Arnold Aurbach, 3. Oskar Naegeli, 4. Walter Michel * 1925 London (''Triangular'') 1.
Akiba Rubinstein Akiba Kiwelowicz Rubinstein (1 December 1880 – 14 March 1961) was a Polish chess player. He is considered to have been one of the greatest players never to have become World Chess Champion. Rubinstein was granted the title International Grandma ...
, 2–3. George Alan Thomas, Frederick Yates * 1925 Bromley: 1.
Hermanis Matisons Hermanis Matisons (; 1894, Riga – 1932) was a Latvian chess player and one of world's most highly regarded chess masters in the early 1930s. He was also a leading Chess composer, composer of Endgame study, endgame studies. He died of tuberculosi ...
, 2. Karel Skalička, 3. Karel Hromádka, 4. Fricis Apšenieks * 1925 Wiesbaden 1.
Max Euwe Machgielis "Max" Euwe (; May 20, 1901 – November 26, 1981) was a Dutch chess player, mathematician, author, and chess administrator. He was the fifth player to become World Chess Championship, World Chess Champion, a title he held from 1935 ...
, 2. Rudolf Spielmann, 3. Georg Schories, 4.
Friedrich Sämisch Friedrich Sämisch (20 September 1896 – 16 August 1975) was a German chess player and chess theorist. He was among the inaugural recipients of the title International Grandmaster from FIDE in 1950. Background Sämisch was a bookbinder ...
* 1925 Kolin 1.
Richard Réti Richard Réti (28 May 1889 – 6 June 1929) was an Austro-Hungarian and later Czechoslovak chess player, chess author and composer of endgame studies. He was one of the principal proponents of hypermodernism in chess. With the exception of N ...
, 2–3. Karel Opočenský, Max Walter, 4. Formanek * 1925 Győr 1–2. Ferenc Chalupetzky, Győző Exner, 3. Horváth, 4. Galgóczy * 1925 Bucharest 1. Alexandru Tyroler, 2. Sigmund Herland, 3. Iosif Mendelssohn, 4. Stefan Erdélyi * 1925 Leningrad 1. Solomon Gotthilf, 2–3.
Carlos Torre Repetto Carlos Jesús Torre Repetto (29 November 1904Carlos Torre's birth certificate ...
, Yakov Rokhlin, 4. Abram Model * 1926 Amsterdam 1. Edgard Colle, 2.
Savielly Tartakower Savielly Tartakower (also known as ''Xavier'' or ''Ksawery'' ''Tartakower'', less often ''Tartacover'' or ''Tartakover''; 21 February 1887 – 4 February 1956) was a Polish chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster (chess), Internatio ...
, 3.
Max Euwe Machgielis "Max" Euwe (; May 20, 1901 – November 26, 1981) was a Dutch chess player, mathematician, author, and chess administrator. He was the fifth player to become World Chess Championship, World Chess Champion, a title he held from 1935 ...
, 4. Pannekoek * 1927 Utrecht 1.
Max Euwe Machgielis "Max" Euwe (; May 20, 1901 – November 26, 1981) was a Dutch chess player, mathematician, author, and chess administrator. He was the fifth player to become World Chess Championship, World Chess Champion, a title he held from 1935 ...
, 2. Jacques Davidson, 3. Adolf Olland, 4. Arnold van Foreest * 1927 Warsaw 1.
Stanisław Kohn Stanisław Kohn (1895–1940) was a Polish chess master. Kohn played for Poland in 1st unofficial Chess Olympiad at Paris 1924. In 1925, he won the Warsaw Championship. In 1926, he tied for 3rd-7th, behind Dawid Przepiórka and Paulin Frydman ...
, 2–3. Kazimierz Makarczyk,
Savielly Tartakower Savielly Tartakower (also known as ''Xavier'' or ''Ksawery'' ''Tartakower'', less often ''Tartacover'' or ''Tartakover''; 21 February 1887 – 4 February 1956) was a Polish chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster (chess), Internatio ...
, 4.
Akiba Rubinstein Akiba Kiwelowicz Rubinstein (1 December 1880 – 14 March 1961) was a Polish chess player. He is considered to have been one of the greatest players never to have become World Chess Champion. Rubinstein was granted the title International Grandma ...
* 1928 Hamburg 1. Heinrich Wagner, 2. Herbert Heinicke, 3. Wilhelm Schönmann, 4. Rodatz * 1928 Stockholm 1.
Richard Réti Richard Réti (28 May 1889 – 6 June 1929) was an Austro-Hungarian and later Czechoslovak chess player, chess author and composer of endgame studies. He was one of the principal proponents of hypermodernism in chess. With the exception of N ...
, 2–3.
Erik Lundin Erik Ruben Lundin (2 July 1904 – 5 December 1988) was a Swedish chess master. In 1928, he won in Oslo, took 5th in Helsingborg, tied for 2nd-3rd in Stockholm (''Quadrangular'', Richard Réti won). In 1929, he took 2nd in Gothenburg (Nordic Ch ...
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Gösta Stoltz Gösta Stoltz (May 9, 1904 – July 25, 1963) was a Swedish chess Grandmaster (chess), grandmaster. Stoltz won the Swedish championships at Halmstad 1951, Hålland 1952, and Örebro 1953. He was awarded the International Master title in 1950, and t ...
, 4. Gideon Ståhlberg * 1929 London 1. Frederick Yates, 2. William Winter, 3–4. Mir Sultan Khan, Adrián García Conde * 1929 Maastricht 1. Marcel Engelmann, 2. Victor Soultanbeieff, 3. Salo Landau, 4. Courtens * 1929 Ghent 1. Edgard Colle, 2. Georges Koltanowski, 3. Marcel Engelmann, 4. Varlin * 1929 Odessa (''Triangular'') 1. Boris Verlinsky, 2. Sergey von Freymann, 3. Ilya Kan * 1930 Rotterdam 1.
Savielly Tartakower Savielly Tartakower (also known as ''Xavier'' or ''Ksawery'' ''Tartakower'', less often ''Tartacover'' or ''Tartakover''; 21 February 1887 – 4 February 1956) was a Polish chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster (chess), Internatio ...
, 2–3. Daniël Noteboom, Sándor Takács, 4. Salo Landau * 1930 Berlin 1–2. Ludwig Rellstab,
Friedrich Sämisch Friedrich Sämisch (20 September 1896 – 16 August 1975) was a German chess player and chess theorist. He was among the inaugural recipients of the title International Grandmaster from FIDE in 1950. Background Sämisch was a bookbinder ...
, 3. Carl Ahues, 4. Kurt Richter * 1930 Berlin 1.
Isaac Kashdan Isaac Kashdan (November 19, 1905, in New York City – February 20, 1985, in Los Angeles) was an American chess grandmaster and chess writer. He was twice U.S. Open champion (1938, 1947). He played five times for the United States in chess Oly ...
, 2.
Karl Helling Karl Helling (10 August 1904, Luckenwalde, Brandenburg – 15 August 1937, Berlin) was a German chess master. In 1928, he shared 1st with Kurt Richter in the Berlin City Chess Championship, and won a play-off match for the title against him (2 : ...
, 3.
Herman Steiner Herman Steiner (April 15, 1905 – November 25, 1955) was an American chess player, organizer, and columnist. He won the U.S. Chess Championship in 1948 and became International Master in 1950. Even more important than his playing career were h ...
, 4.
Friedrich Sämisch Friedrich Sämisch (20 September 1896 – 16 August 1975) was a German chess player and chess theorist. He was among the inaugural recipients of the title International Grandmaster from FIDE in 1950. Background Sämisch was a bookbinder ...
* 1930 Bucharest 1. Taubmann, 2. Abraham Baratz, 3. Iosif Mendelssohn, 4. Wechsler * 1930 Le Pont 1. Hans Johner, 2.
Ossip Bernstein Ossip Samoilovich Bernstein (20 September 1882 – 30 November 1962) was a French chess player and businessman. He was one of the inaugural recipients of the title Grandmaster (chess), International Grandmaster from FIDE in 1950. Biography Born ...
, 3. Oskar Naegeli, 4. Walter Michel * 1930 Liége 1. Victor Soultanbeieff, 2. Isaías Pleci, 3. Liubarski, 4. Mendlewicz * 1931 Amsterdam 1–2.
Max Euwe Machgielis "Max" Euwe (; May 20, 1901 – November 26, 1981) was a Dutch chess player, mathematician, author, and chess administrator. He was the fifth player to become World Chess Championship, World Chess Champion, a title he held from 1935 ...
, Salo Landau, 3. Daniël Noteboom, 4. Selman * 1931 Rotterdam 1. Salo Landau, 2. Edgard Colle, 3.
Savielly Tartakower Savielly Tartakower (also known as ''Xavier'' or ''Ksawery'' ''Tartakower'', less often ''Tartacover'' or ''Tartakover''; 21 February 1887 – 4 February 1956) was a Polish chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster (chess), Internatio ...
, 4.
Akiba Rubinstein Akiba Kiwelowicz Rubinstein (1 December 1880 – 14 March 1961) was a Polish chess player. He is considered to have been one of the greatest players never to have become World Chess Champion. Rubinstein was granted the title International Grandma ...
* 1932 Bern 1–3.
Alexander Alekhine Alexander Aleksandrovich Alekhine. He disliked when Russians sometimes pronounced the of as , , which he regarded as a Yiddish distortion of his name, and insisted that the correct Russian pronunciation was . (March 24, 1946) was a Russian ...
, Oskar Naegeli, Erwin Voellmy, 4. Fritz Gygli * 1933 Bern 1. Oskar Naegeli, 2.
Salo Flohr Salomon Mikhailovich Flohr (November 21, 1908 – July 18, 1983) was a Czechoslovak and Soviet chess player and writer. He was among the first recipients of the title International Grandmaster from FIDE in 1950. Flohr dominated many tournam ...
, 3–4. Fritz Gygli, Hans Johner * 1933 Bremen 1–2. Carl Carls, Carl Ahues, 3. Heinrich Wagner, 4. Oskar Antze * 1933 Warsaw 1. Mieczysław Najdorf, 2.
Paulin Frydman Paulino (Paulin) Frydman (26 May 1905 in Warsaw, Poland – 2 February 1982 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) was a Polish chess master. Career In 1922, Paulin Frydman took 2nd place, behind Kazimierz Makarczyk in Warsaw. In 1923, he tied for 2nd ...
, 3. Leon Kremer, 4. Kazimierz Makarczyk * 1933 Moscow 1. Fedir Bohatyrchuk, 2. Boris Verlinsky, 3. Nikolai Riumin, 4.
Peter Romanovsky Pyotr Arsenyevich Romanovsky (; 29 July 1892 – 1 March 1964) was a Russian and Soviet chess player and author. He won the Soviet Championship in 1923 and, jointly, 1927. Biography At the beginning of his career in Saint Petersburg, he shared f ...
* 1934 Rotterdam 1.
Alexander Alekhine Alexander Aleksandrovich Alekhine. He disliked when Russians sometimes pronounced the of as , , which he regarded as a Yiddish distortion of his name, and insisted that the correct Russian pronunciation was . (March 24, 1946) was a Russian ...
, 2. Salo Landau, 3. Muehring, 4. Hamming * 1935 Łódź 1. Izaak Appel, 2. Achilles Frydman, 3–4. Jakub Kolski, Edward Gerstenfeld * 1935 Łódź 1. Jakub Kolski, 2–3. Izaak Appel,
Teodor Regedziński Teodor (Theodor, Theodore) Regedziński (Regedzinski, Reger) (28 April 1894 – 2 August 1954) was a Polish chess master of German origin. Biography Born Poland (near Łódź), Regedziński was of German origin as his father, named Reger. He ...
, 4. Achilles Frydman * 1935 Łódź 1.
Savielly Tartakower Savielly Tartakower (also known as ''Xavier'' or ''Ksawery'' ''Tartakower'', less often ''Tartacover'' or ''Tartakover''; 21 February 1887 – 4 February 1956) was a Polish chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster (chess), Internatio ...
, 2. Izaak Appel, 3.
Teodor Regedziński Teodor (Theodor, Theodore) Regedziński (Regedzinski, Reger) (28 April 1894 – 2 August 1954) was a Polish chess master of German origin. Biography Born Poland (near Łódź), Regedziński was of German origin as his father, named Reger. He ...
, 4. Jakub Kolski * 1935 Göteborg 1. Gösta Danielsson, 2. Ernst Larsson, 3. Allan Nilsson, 4. John B. Lindberg * 1936 Amsterdam 1–2.
Alexander Alekhine Alexander Aleksandrovich Alekhine. He disliked when Russians sometimes pronounced the of as , , which he regarded as a Yiddish distortion of his name, and insisted that the correct Russian pronunciation was . (March 24, 1946) was a Russian ...
, Salo Landau, 3–4. Jongedijk, Koomen * 1936 Brussels 1–2.
Jacques Mieses Jacques Mieses (born Jacob Mieses; 27 February 1865 – 23 February 1954) was a German chess player. Mieses, who was Jewish, fled the Nazi regime in 1938 and later became a British citizen. Hooper, David and Kenneth Whyld 1996. ''The Oxford comp ...
, Jerochov, 3.
Albéric O'Kelly de Galway Albéric Joseph Rodolphe Marie Robert Ghislain O'Kelly de Galway (17 May 1911 – 3 October 1980) was a Belgium, Belgian chess Grandmaster (chess), Grandmaster (1956), an International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster (1962), and the third ICCF ...
, 4. Jung * 1937 Bad Nauheim, Stuttgart, Garmisch 1.
Max Euwe Machgielis "Max" Euwe (; May 20, 1901 – November 26, 1981) was a Dutch chess player, mathematician, author, and chess administrator. He was the fifth player to become World Chess Championship, World Chess Champion, a title he held from 1935 ...
, 2–3. Efim Bogoljubov,
Alexander Alekhine Alexander Aleksandrovich Alekhine. He disliked when Russians sometimes pronounced the of as , , which he regarded as a Yiddish distortion of his name, and insisted that the correct Russian pronunciation was . (March 24, 1946) was a Russian ...
, 4.
Friedrich Sämisch Friedrich Sämisch (20 September 1896 – 16 August 1975) was a German chess player and chess theorist. He was among the inaugural recipients of the title International Grandmaster from FIDE in 1950. Background Sämisch was a bookbinder ...
* 1937 Nice 1.
Alexander Alekhine Alexander Aleksandrovich Alekhine. He disliked when Russians sometimes pronounced the of as , , which he regarded as a Yiddish distortion of his name, and insisted that the correct Russian pronunciation was . (March 24, 1946) was a Russian ...
, 2. Barbato Rometti, 3. Victor Kahn, 4. Brian Reilly * 1937 Bremen 1. Efim Bogoljubov, 2–3.
Friedrich Sämisch Friedrich Sämisch (20 September 1896 – 16 August 1975) was a German chess player and chess theorist. He was among the inaugural recipients of the title International Grandmaster from FIDE in 1950. Background Sämisch was a bookbinder ...
, Heinrich Reinhardt, 4. Carl Carls * 1937 Brussels 1.
Albéric O'Kelly de Galway Albéric Joseph Rodolphe Marie Robert Ghislain O'Kelly de Galway (17 May 1911 – 3 October 1980) was a Belgium, Belgian chess Grandmaster (chess), Grandmaster (1956), an International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster (1962), and the third ICCF ...
, 2. Movsas Feigins, 3. Paul Devos, 4. Emil Diemer * 1937 Riga 1. Paul List, 2. Movsas Feigins, 3. Fricis Apšenieks, 4. Teodors Bergs * 1937 Riga (''Triangular'') 1. Vladimirs Petrovs, 2. Fricis Apšenieks, 3. Movsas Feigins * 1937 Vienna 1.
Paul Keres Paul Keres (; 7 January 1916 – 5 June 1975) was an Estonian chess grandmaster and chess writer. He was among the world's top players from the mid-1930s to the mid-1960s, and narrowly missed a chance at a World Chess Championship match on five ...
, 2. Wolfgang Weil, 3. Albert Becker, 4. David Podhorzer * 1937 Warsaw 1–4. Gideon Ståhlberg, Antoni Wojciechowski,
Lajos Steiner Lajos Steiner (14 June 1903, in Nagyvárad ( Oradea) – 22 April 1975, in Sydney) was a Hungarian–born Australian chess master. Steiner was one of four children of Bernat Steiner, a mathematics teacher, and his wife Cecilia (née Schwarz) ...
, Mieczysław Najdorf * 1937 Zoppot 1. Ludwig Rellstab, 2. Gideon Ståhlberg, 3.
Lajos Steiner Lajos Steiner (14 June 1903, in Nagyvárad ( Oradea) – 22 April 1975, in Sydney) was a Hungarian–born Australian chess master. Steiner was one of four children of Bernat Steiner, a mathematics teacher, and his wife Cecilia (née Schwarz) ...
, 4. Herbert Ludwigshausen * 1938 Bergedorf 1. Heinrich Reinhardt, 2–3. Efim Bogoljubov,
Friedrich Sämisch Friedrich Sämisch (20 September 1896 – 16 August 1975) was a German chess player and chess theorist. He was among the inaugural recipients of the title International Grandmaster from FIDE in 1950. Background Sämisch was a bookbinder ...
, 4. Herbert Heinicke * 1938 Beverwijk 1. Philip Bakker, 2. van Dijk, 3. Zoontjes, 4. van den Bronk * 1938 Moscow 1–2. Ilya Kan,
Viacheslav Ragozin Viacheslav Vasilyevich Ragozin (; 8 October 1908 – 11 March 1962) was a Soviet chess player, writer and editor. He was world champion in correspondence chess and held the title of Grandmaster in both over-the-board and correspondence chess. ...
, 3–4.
Vladimir Alatortsev Vladimir Alexeyevich Alatortsev (, pronounced "a LAH tart sev"; 14 May 1909 – 13 January 1987) was a Soviet chess player, author, and administrator. During his career, he became champion of both Leningrad and Moscow, and played in the S ...
, Nikolai Riumin * 1939 Baarn (I) 1.
Salo Flohr Salomon Mikhailovich Flohr (November 21, 1908 – July 18, 1983) was a Czechoslovak and Soviet chess player and writer. He was among the first recipients of the title International Grandmaster from FIDE in 1950. Flohr dominated many tournam ...
, 2. Haije Kramer, 3. László Szabó, 4. van Epen * 1939 Baarn (II) 1.
Max Euwe Machgielis "Max" Euwe (; May 20, 1901 – November 26, 1981) was a Dutch chess player, mathematician, author, and chess administrator. He was the fifth player to become World Chess Championship, World Chess Champion, a title he held from 1935 ...
, 2. George Salto Fontein, 3. Salo Landau, 4. Spanjaard * 1939 Beverwijk 1. Nicolaas Cortlever, 2. van Steenis, 3. Bakker, 4. van Dijk * 1939 Copenhagen (''Triangular'') 1. Holger Norman-Hansen, 2. Christian Poulsen, 3. Jens Enevoldsen * 1939 Buenos Aires (''Triangular'') 1. Carlos Maderna, 2. Luis Piazzini, 3. José Gerschman * 1940 Buenos Aires (''Triangular'') 1. Carlos Guimard, 2. Aristide Gromer, 3. Franciszek Sulik * 1940 Randers 1–2. Jens Enevoldsen, Christian Poulsen, 3–4. Bjørn Nielsen, Sørensen * 1940 Baarn 1. Salo Landau, 2–3.
Max Euwe Machgielis "Max" Euwe (; May 20, 1901 – November 26, 1981) was a Dutch chess player, mathematician, author, and chess administrator. He was the fifth player to become World Chess Championship, World Chess Champion, a title he held from 1935 ...
, Hans Kmoch, 4. Haije Kramer * 1940 Beverwijk 1.
Max Euwe Machgielis "Max" Euwe (; May 20, 1901 – November 26, 1981) was a Dutch chess player, mathematician, author, and chess administrator. He was the fifth player to become World Chess Championship, World Chess Champion, a title he held from 1935 ...
, 2. Hendrik Jan Van Steenis, 3. Nicolaas Cortlever, 4. Arthur Wijnans * 1940 Delft 1. Hans Kmoch, 2.
Max Euwe Machgielis "Max" Euwe (; May 20, 1901 – November 26, 1981) was a Dutch chess player, mathematician, author, and chess administrator. He was the fifth player to become World Chess Championship, World Chess Champion, a title he held from 1935 ...
, 3. Johannes van den Bosch, 4. Salo Landau * 1941 Beverwijk 1. Arthur Wijnans, 2. Nicolaas Cortlever, 3.
Max Euwe Machgielis "Max" Euwe (; May 20, 1901 – November 26, 1981) was a Dutch chess player, mathematician, author, and chess administrator. He was the fifth player to become World Chess Championship, World Chess Champion, a title he held from 1935 ...
, 4. Carel Sammelius * 1942 Rio de Janeiro 1. Duarte, 2. João de Souza Mendes, 3. Burlamaqui, 4. Moses. * 1943 Rio de Janeiro 1. Erich Eliskases, 2. Oswaldo Cruz Filho, 3. Walter Cruz, 4. João de Souza Mendes * 1951 Buenos Aires (''Triangular'') 1. Carlos Maderna, 2. Jacobo Bolbochán, 3. Heinrich Reinhardt * 1952 Sofia (''Triangular'') 1. Alexander Tsvetkov, 2. Milko Bobotsov, 3.
Nikolay Minev Nikolay (or Nikolai) Nikolaev Minev (, 8 November 1931 – 10 March 2017) was a Bulgarian chess International Master (IM) and noted chess author. Minev was born on 8 November 1931, in Rousse, Bulgaria. He was awarded the IM title by FIDE in 196 ...
* 1954 Vilnius 1.
Vladas Mikėnas Vladas Mikėnas (17 April 1910 – 3 November 1992) was a Lithuanian and Soviet chess player and journalist. He was awarded the titles of International Master and Honorary Grandmaster by FIDE. Early career Vladas Mikėnas played for Lithuani ...
, 2.
Ratmir Kholmov Ratmir Dmitrievich Kholmov ( Russian: Ратмир Дмитриевич Холмов) (13 May 1925 in Shenkursk – 18 February 2006 in Moscow) was a Russian chess Grandmaster. He won many international tournaments in Eastern Europe during his ...
, 3–4. Isakas Vistaneckis,
Viacheslav Ragozin Viacheslav Vasilyevich Ragozin (; 8 October 1908 – 11 March 1962) was a Soviet chess player, writer and editor. He was world champion in correspondence chess and held the title of Grandmaster in both over-the-board and correspondence chess. ...
* 1956 Leningrad (''Triangular'') 1.
Mark Taimanov Mark Evgenievich Taimanov (; 7 February 1926 – 28 November 2016) was one of the leading Soviet and Russian chess players, among the world's top 20 players from 1946 to 1971. A prolific chess author, Taimanov was awarded the title of Grandmas ...
, 2. Yuri Averbakh, 3.
Boris Spassky Boris Vasilyevich Spassky (; January 30, 1937 – February 27, 2025) was a Russian chess grandmaster who was the tenth World Chess Champion, holding the title from 1969 to 1972. Spassky played three world championship matches: he lost to Tigra ...
* 1957 Sofia (''Triangular'') 1. Oleg Neikirch, 2.
Aleksandar Matanović Aleksandar Matanović (; 23 May 1930 – 9 August 2023) was a Serbian chess grandmaster, one of the leading Yugoslav players in the 1950s-1970s. In 1966 he founded the company Chess Informant, which publishes regular game collections from recen ...
, 3. Bogdan Śliwa * 1960 Madrid 1.
Svetozar Gligorić Svetozar Gligorić ( sr-Cyrl, Светозар Глигорић; 2 February 1923 – 14 August 2012) was a Serbian and Yugoslav chess grandmaster and musician. He won the championship of Yugoslavia a record 11 times, and is considered the best ...
, 2–3.
Lajos Portisch Lajos Portisch (born 4 April 1937) is a Hungarian chess Grandmaster, whose positional style earned him the nickname, the "Hungarian Botvinnik". One of the strongest players from the early 1960s into the late 1980s, he participated in twelve c ...
, Arturo Pomar, 4.
Jan Hein Donner Johannes Hendrikus (Hein) Donner (July 6, 1927 – November 27, 1988) was a Dutch chess grandmaster and writer. He was born in The Hague. His father Jan Donner was a prominent Dutch politician and judge. Donner won the Dutch Championship in 195 ...
* 1960 Buenos Aires (''Triangular'') 1. Samuel Schweber, 2. Heinrich Reinhardt, 3. Erich Eliskases * 1961 São Paulo (''Triangular'') 1. Eugênio German, 2. Rodrigo Flores, 3. Bernardo Wexler * 1962 Stockholm (''Triangular'') 1. Leonid Stein, 2.
Pal Benko Pal Charles Benko (; July 15, 1928 – August 25, 2019) was a Hungarian and American chess grandmaster, author, and composer of endgame studies and chess problems. Early life Benko was born on July 15, 1928, in Amiens, France, where his ...
, 3.
Svetozar Gligorić Svetozar Gligorić ( sr-Cyrl, Светозар Глигорић; 2 February 1923 – 14 August 2012) was a Serbian and Yugoslav chess grandmaster and musician. He won the championship of Yugoslavia a record 11 times, and is considered the best ...
* 1963 Leningrad (''Triangular'') 1. Leonid Stein, 2.
Boris Spassky Boris Vasilyevich Spassky (; January 30, 1937 – February 27, 2025) was a Russian chess grandmaster who was the tenth World Chess Champion, holding the title from 1969 to 1972. Spassky played three world championship matches: he lost to Tigra ...
, 3.
Ratmir Kholmov Ratmir Dmitrievich Kholmov ( Russian: Ратмир Дмитриевич Холмов) (13 May 1925 in Shenkursk – 18 February 2006 in Moscow) was a Russian chess Grandmaster. He won many international tournaments in Eastern Europe during his ...
* 1964 Rio de Janeiro (''Triangular'') 1. Oscar Quiñones, 2. Samuel Schweber, 3. Mauro de Athayde * 1967 Buenos Aires 1. Henrique Mecking, 2. Julio Bolbochán, 3.
Oscar Panno Oscar Roberto Panno (born 17 March 1935) is an Argentine chess Grandmaster. Biography Panno was born in Buenos Aires. He won the 2nd World Junior Chess Championship in 1953, ahead of such future strong Grandmasters as Borislav Ivkov, Bent Lar ...
, 4. Alberto Foguelman * 1973 Chicago (''Triangular'') 1. Robert Byrne, 2.
Samuel Reshevsky Samuel Herman Reshevsky (born Szmul Rzeszewski; November 26, 1911 – April 4, 1992) was a Polish chess prodigy and later a leading American chess grandmaster. He was a contender for the World Chess Championship from the mid 1930s to the late 1 ...
, 3. Lubomir Kavalek * 1974 Buenos Aires (''Triangular'') 1. Jorge Szmetan, 2. Jorge Rubinetti, 3. Ricardo Grinberg * 1976 Manila 1. Eugenio Torre, 2.
Anatoly Karpov Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov (, ; born May 23, 1951) is a Russian and former Soviet Grandmaster (chess), chess grandmaster, former World Chess Championship, World Chess Champion, ⁣and politician. He was the 12th World Chess Champion from 1975 ...
, 3.
Ljubomir Ljubojević Ljubomir Ljubojević (; born November 2, 1950) is a Serbian chess grandmaster. He won the Yugoslav Chess Championship in 1977 (tied) and 1982. Life and career Ljubojević was born on 2 November 1950 in Titovo Užice, Yugoslavia (now Užice, S ...
, 4.
Walter Browne Walter Shawn Browne (10 January 1949 – 24 June 2015) was an Australian-born American chess and poker player. Awarded the title Grandmaster (GM) by FIDE in 1970, he won the U.S. Chess Championship six times. Early years Browne was born to ...
* 1976 Amsterdam 1.
Anatoly Karpov Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov (, ; born May 23, 1951) is a Russian and former Soviet Grandmaster (chess), chess grandmaster, former World Chess Championship, World Chess Champion, ⁣and politician. He was the 12th World Chess Champion from 1975 ...
, 2.
Walter Browne Walter Shawn Browne (10 January 1949 – 24 June 2015) was an Australian-born American chess and poker player. Awarded the title Grandmaster (GM) by FIDE in 1970, he won the U.S. Chess Championship six times. Early years Browne was born to ...
, 3–4.
Jan Timman Jan Timman (born 14 December 1951) is a Dutch chess grandmaster who was one of the world's leading chess 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 a ...
, Fridrik Olafsson * 1979 South Africa 1.
Viktor Korchnoi Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi (, ; 23 March 1931 – 6 June 2016) was a Soviet (before 1976) and Swiss (after 1980) chess grandmaster (GM) and chess writer. He is considered one of the strongest players never to have become World Chess Champion. Bor ...
, 2.
Wolfgang Unzicker Wolfgang Unzicker (26 June 1925 – 20 April 2006) was one of the strongest German chess Grandmasters from 1945 to about 1970. He decided against making chess his profession, choosing law instead. Unzicker was at times the world's strongest ama ...
, 3.
Tony Miles Anthony John Miles (23 April 1955 – 12 November 2001) was an English chess player and the first Englishman to earn the International Grandmaster, Grandmaster title. Early and personal life Miles was born on 23 April 1955 in Edgbaston, a sub ...
, 4. Anatoly Lein * 1979 Waddinxveen 1.
Anatoly Karpov Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov (, ; born May 23, 1951) is a Russian and former Soviet Grandmaster (chess), chess grandmaster, former World Chess Championship, World Chess Champion, ⁣and politician. He was the 12th World Chess Champion from 1975 ...
, 2. Lubomir Kavalek, 3.
Vlastimil Hort Vlastimil Hort (12 January 1944 – 12 May 2025) was a Czech and German chess grandmaster. During the 1960s and 1970s he was one of the world's strongest players and reached the World Chess Championship 1978, 1977–78 Candidates Tournament for ...
, 4. Gennadi Sosonko * 1980 Puerto Madryn 1–2.
Tony Miles Anthony John Miles (23 April 1955 – 12 November 2001) was an English chess player and the first Englishman to earn the International Grandmaster, Grandmaster title. Early and personal life Miles was born on 23 April 1955 in Edgbaston, a sub ...
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Ljubomir Ljubojević Ljubomir Ljubojević (; born November 2, 1950) is a Serbian chess grandmaster. He won the Yugoslav Chess Championship in 1977 (tied) and 1982. Life and career Ljubojević was born on 2 November 1950 in Titovo Užice, Yugoslavia (now Užice, S ...
, 3.
Oscar Panno Oscar Roberto Panno (born 17 March 1935) is an Argentine chess Grandmaster. Biography Panno was born in Buenos Aires. He won the 2nd World Junior Chess Championship in 1953, ahead of such future strong Grandmasters as Borislav Ivkov, Bent Lar ...
, 4. Miguel Quinteros * 1981 Johannesburg 1.
Ulf Andersson Ulf Andersson (born 27 June 1951) is a leading Swedish chess player. FIDE awarded him the International Master title in 1970 and the Grandmaster title in 1972. Chess career At his peak, Andersson reached number four on the FIDE rating list. ...
, 2–3.
Viktor Korchnoi Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi (, ; 23 March 1931 – 6 June 2016) was a Soviet (before 1976) and Swiss (after 1980) chess grandmaster (GM) and chess writer. He is considered one of the strongest players never to have become World Chess Champion. Bor ...
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Robert Hübner Robert Hübner (6 November 1948 – 5 January 2025) was a German chess grandmaster, chess writer, and papyrologist. He was one of the world's leading players in the 1970s and early 1980s. Chess career At eighteen, Hübner was joint winner of t ...
, 4.
John Nunn John Denis Martin Nunn (born 25 April 1955) is an English chess grandmaster, a three-time world champion in chess problem solving, a chess writer and publisher, and a mathematician. He is one of England's strongest chess players and was form ...
* 1989 Santiago de Chile 1.
Gilberto Milos Gilberto Milos (born October 30, 1963) is a Brazilian chess player. He was awarded by FIDE the title of International Master in 1984 and the title of Grandmaster in 1988. Milos competed in the FIDE World Championship five times (1998, 1999, 2000 ...
, 2.-3. Ivan Morovic Fernandez,
Oscar Panno Oscar Roberto Panno (born 17 March 1935) is an Argentine chess Grandmaster. Biography Panno was born in Buenos Aires. He won the 2nd World Junior Chess Championship in 1953, ahead of such future strong Grandmasters as Borislav Ivkov, Bent Lar ...
4. Roberto Cifuentes Parada * 1991 Rybinsk 1. Marat Makarov, 2–3.
Vladimir Kramnik Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik (; born 25 June 1975) is a Russian Grandmaster (chess), chess grandmaster. He was the World Chess Champion#Split title (1993–2006), Classical World Chess Champion from 2000 to 2006, and the 14th undisputed World Ch ...
, Maxim Sorokin, 4. Andrei Kharlov * 1993 San Nicolas (''Triangular'') 1. Darcy Lima, 2.
Gilberto Milos Gilberto Milos (born October 30, 1963) is a Brazilian chess player. He was awarded by FIDE the title of International Master in 1984 and the title of Grandmaster in 1988. Milos competed in the FIDE World Championship five times (1998, 1999, 2000 ...
, 3. Daniel Cámpora * 1993 Chalkidiki, Afitos 1.
Boris Gelfand Boris Abramovich Gelfand (; born 24 June 1968) is a Belarusian-Israeli chess player. A six-time World Championship candidate (1991, 1994–95, 2002, 2007, 2011, 2013), he won the Chess World Cup 2009 and the 2011 Candidates Tournament, mak ...
, 2..-3. Michael Adams,
Alexei Shirov Alexei Shirov (, ; 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 classical world championshi ...
, 4. Vassilios Kotronias * 2000 São Paulo 1. Rafael Leitão, 2. Giovanni Vescovi, 3. Jaime Sunye Neto, 4.
Gilberto Milos Gilberto Milos (born October 30, 1963) is a Brazilian chess player. He was awarded by FIDE the title of International Master in 1984 and the title of Grandmaster in 1988. Milos competed in the FIDE World Championship five times (1998, 1999, 2000 ...
* 2008 Reykjavik 1–2.
Lajos Portisch Lajos Portisch (born 4 April 1937) is a Hungarian chess Grandmaster, whose positional style earned him the nickname, the "Hungarian Botvinnik". One of the strongest players from the early 1960s into the late 1980s, he participated in twelve c ...
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Vlastimil Hort Vlastimil Hort (12 January 1944 – 12 May 2025) was a Czech and German chess grandmaster. During the 1960s and 1970s he was one of the world's strongest players and reached the World Chess Championship 1978, 1977–78 Candidates Tournament for ...
, 3.
Friðrik Ólafsson Friðrik Ólafsson (26 January 1935 – 4 April 2025) was an Icelandic chess grandmaster. He was president of FIDE from 1978 to 1982. He was a six-time Icelandic Chess Champion and a two-time Nordic Chess Champion. Chess career Friðrik was ...
, 4. Pal Benkö * 2009 Bilbao 1.
Levon Aronian Levon Grigori Aronian (; born 6 October 1982) is an Armenian chess grandmaster who has represented the United States since 2021. A chess prodigy, he earned the title of grandmaster in 2000, at the age of 17. He is a former world rapid and blit ...
, 2–3.
Alexander Grischuk Alexander Igorevich Grischuk (born October 31, 1983) is a Russian chess grandmaster. Grischuk was the Russian champion in 2009. He is also a three-time world blitz chess champion (in 2006, 2012 and 2015). He has competed in five Candidates To ...
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Sergey Karjakin Sergey Alexandrovich Karjakin (born 12 January 1990) is a Russian chess grandmaster (chess), grandmaster and politician. A chess prodigy, he previously held the record for the world's youngest ever grandmaster, having qualified for the title a ...
, 4.
Alexei Shirov Alexei Shirov (, ; 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 classical world championshi ...
* 2010 Shanghai 1.
Alexei Shirov Alexei Shirov (, ; 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 classical world championshi ...
, 2–3.
Levon Aronian Levon Grigori Aronian (; born 6 October 1982) is an Armenian chess grandmaster who has represented the United States since 2021. A chess prodigy, he earned the title of grandmaster in 2000, at the age of 17. He is a former world rapid and blit ...
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Vladimir Kramnik Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik (; born 25 June 1975) is a Russian Grandmaster (chess), chess grandmaster. He was the World Chess Champion#Split title (1993–2006), Classical World Chess Champion from 2000 to 2006, and the 14th undisputed World Ch ...
, 4. Wang Hao * 2010 Bilbao 1.
Vladimir Kramnik Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik (; born 25 June 1975) is a Russian Grandmaster (chess), chess grandmaster. He was the World Chess Champion#Split title (1993–2006), Classical World Chess Champion from 2000 to 2006, and the 14th undisputed World Ch ...
, 2.
Viswanathan Anand Viswanathan "Vishy" Anand (born 11 December 1969) is an Indian chess grandmaster. Anand is a five-time World Chess Champion, a two-time World Rapid Chess Champion, a two-time Chess World Cup Champion and a World Blitz Chess Cup Champion. ...
, 3.
Magnus Carlsen Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen (born 30 November 1990) is a Norwegian Grandmaster (chess), chess grandmaster. Carlsen is a five-time World Chess Championship, World Chess Champion, five-time World Rapid Chess Championship, World Rapid Chess Champio ...
, 4.
Alexei Shirov Alexei Shirov (, ; 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 classical world championshi ...
* 2010 Mexico City 1.
Judit Polgár Judit Polgár (born 23 July 1976) is a Hungarian Grandmaster (chess), chess grandmaster, widely regarded as the Strong (chess), strongest female chess player of all time. In 1991, Polgár achieved the title of Grandmaster at the age of 15 years ...
, 2.
Veselin Topalov Veselin Aleksandrov Topalov (pronounced ; ; born 15 March 1975) is a Bulgarian Grandmaster (chess), chess grandmaster and former FIDE World Chess Championship, World Chess Champion. Topalov became FIDE World Chess Champion by winning the FIDE ...
, 3.
Vassily Ivanchuk Vasyl Mykhailovych Ivanchuk (; born March 18, 1969) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1988. A leading chess player since 1988, Ivanchuk has been ranked at No. 2 on the FIDE world rankings thr ...
, 4. Manuel León Hoyos


See also

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Chess tournament A chess tournament is a series of chess games played competitively to determine a winning individual or team. Since the first international chess tournament in London 1851 chess tournament, London, 1851, chess tournaments have become the standard ...
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List of strong chess tournaments This article depicts many of the strongest chess tournaments in history. 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 j ...


References


Renaissance PlayersChessmetrics.comName Index to Jeremy Gaige's ''Chess Tournament Crosstables'', An Electronic Edition, Anders Thulin, Malmö, 2004-09-01Berliner Schachverband
Berlin Chess Federation
Dutchbase Founder & Archivist : Jack GoossensBrasil Chess Base
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