Reykjavik Open
Chess tournament
The Reykjavik Open is an annual chess tournament that takes place in the capital city of Iceland. It was held every two years up to 2008, currently it runs annually. The first edition was held in 1964 and was won by Mikhail Tal with a score of 12.5 points out of 13.[1] The tournament is currently played with the Swiss system, while from 1964 to 1980 and in 1992 it was a round-robin tournament.
The 2013 edition was voted the second best open tournament of the year in the world by the Association of Chess Professionals, behind Gibraltar Chess Festival.[2]
Winners
All players finishing equal first are listed; the winner after tiebreaks is listed first.
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# | Year | Winner(s) |
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1 | 1964 | Mikhail Tal (Soviet Union) |
2 | 1966 | Friðrik Ólafsson (Iceland) |
3 | 1968 | Evgeny Vasiukov (Soviet Union), Mark Taimanov (Soviet Union) |
4 | 1970 | Guðmundur Sigurjónsson (Iceland) |
5 | 1972 | Friðrik Ólafsson (Iceland), Florin Gheorghiu (Romania), Vlastimil Hort (Czechoslovakia) |
6 | 1974 | Vassily Smyslov (Soviet Union) |
7 | 1976 | Friðrik Ólafsson (Iceland), Jan Timman (Netherlands) |
8 | 1978 | Walter Browne (United States) |
9 | 1980 | Viktor Kupreichik (Soviet Union) |
10 | 1982 | Lev Alburt (United States) |
11 | 1984 | Jóhann Hjartarson (Iceland), Helgi Ólafsson (Iceland), Samuel Reshevsky (United States) |
12 | 1986 | Predrag Nikolić (Yugoslavia) |
13 | 1988 | Jón Árnason (Iceland) |
14 | 1990 | Helgi Ólafsson (Iceland), Jón Árnason (Iceland), Sergey Dolmatov (Soviet Union), Lev Polugaevsky (Soviet Union), Rafael Vaganian (Soviet Union), Yasser Seirawan (United States), Nick de Firmian (United States), Yuri Razuvaev (Soviet Union), Erling Mortensen (Norway) |
15 | 1992 | Jóhann Hjartarson (Iceland), Alexei Shirov (Latvia) |
16 | 1994 | Hannes Stefánsson (Iceland), Vadim Zvjaginsev (Russia), Evgeny Pigusov (Russia) |
17 | 1996 | Simen Agdestein (Norway), Predrag Nikolić (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Jonathan Tisdall (Norway) |
18 | 1998 | Larry Christiansen (United States) |
19 | 2000 | Hannes Stefánsson (Iceland) |
20 | 2002 | Jaan Ehlvest (Estonia), Oleg Korneev (Russia) |
21 | 2004 | Alexei Dreev (Russia), Vladimir Epishin (Russia), Emil Sutovsky (Israel) , Jan Timman (Netherlands), Levon Aronian (Germany),[3] Igor-Alexandre Nataf (France), Jaan Ehlvest (Estonia), Robert Markuš (Serbia and Montenegro) |
22 | 2006 | Gabriel Sargissian (Armenia), Ahmed Adly (Egypt), Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan), Igor-Alexandre Nataf (France), Pentala Harikrishna (India) |
23 | 2008 | Wang Hao (China), Hannes Stefánsson (Iceland), Wang Yue (China) |
24 | 2009 | Héðinn Steingrímsson (Iceland), Yuriy Kryvoruchko (Ukraine), Hannes Stefánsson (Iceland) |
25 | 2010 | Ivan Sokolov (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Yuri Kuzubov (Ukraine), Abhijeet Gupta (India), Hannes Stefánsson (Iceland) |
26 | 2011 | Yuri Kuzubov (Ukraine), Ivan Sokolov (Netherlands), Vladimir Baklan (Ukraine), Kamil Miton (Poland), Jon Ludvig Hammer (Norway), Illia Nyzhnyk (Ukraine) |
27 | 2012 | Fabiano Caruana (Italy) |
28 | 2013 | Pavel Eljanov (Ukraine), Wesley So (Philippines), Bassem Amin (Egypt) |
29 | 2014 | Li Chao (China) |
30 | 2015 | Erwin l'Ami (Netherlands) |
31 | 2016 | Abhijeet Gupta (India) |
32 | 2017 | Anish Giri (Netherlands) |
33 | 2018 | Baskaran Adhiban (India) |
34 | 2019 | Constantin Lupulescu (Romania) |
35 | 2020 | The 2020 event was cancelled due to the coronavirus epidemic.[4] |
37 | 2022 | Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa (India)[5] |
38 | 2023 | Nils Grandelius (Sweden)[6] |
39 | 2024 | Bogdan-Daniel Deac (Romania)[7] |
References
- ^ "50 years since first Reykjavik Open". reykjavikopen.com. 2014-01-14. Retrieved 2015-08-24.
- ^ "London Candidates Tournament of the Year 2013". ACP. 2014-05-02. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
- ^ "Reykjavik Open 2004 July 2004 Iceland FIDE Chess Tournament report".
- ^ https://www.reykjavikopen.com/cancellation-of-the-2020-reykjavik-open/ Cancellation of the 2020 Reykjavik Open
- ^ "Indian GM Praggnanandhaa wins Reykjavik Open chess". Moneycontrol. Retrieved 2022-04-14.
- ^ Olafsson, Helgi (2023-04-05). "Grandelius sigurvegari í elleftu tilraun". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic).
- ^ https://www.reykjavikopen.com/bogdan-daniel-deac/
- The History of Reykjavik Open (1964-2012)
- Complete standings on Chess-Results: 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
- The Week in Chess: 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004
External links
- Official website
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