Corus Chess Tournament
Last updated on Sat, 03/29/2008 at 8:07am.
A major chess tournament played in Wijk Aan Zee in the Netherlands. Founded in 1938 for Dutch players it went International in 1946 and has grown to be one of the most prestigious chess tournaments, and is considered one of the "Big Three" tournaments along with Dortmund and Linares. Origanally called Hoogovens Beverwijk and after 1967 Hoogovens Wijk Aan Zee, it became Corus in 2000 when the Corus Steel Company became sponsor. It is currently played in three Gradnmaster groups (A, B, and C) along side a large number of open tournaments.
It has been called the Wimbeldon of Chess.
A list of winners:
1938 - Philip Bakker 1939 - Nicolaas Cortlever 1940 - Max Euwe 1941 - Arthur Wijnans 1942 - Max Euwe 1943 - Arnold van den Hoek 1944 - Theo van Scheltinga 1945 - no tournament 1946 - Alberic O'Kelly de Galway 1947 - Theo van Scheltinga 1948 - Lodewijk Prins 1949 - Savielly Tartakower 1950 - Jan Hein Donner 1951 - Herman Pilnik 1952 - Max Euwe 1953 - Nicolas Rossolimo 1954 - Hans Bouwmeester and Vasja Pirc 1955 - Bora Milic 1956 - Gideon Stahlberg 1957 - Aleksandar Matanović 1958 - Max Euwe and Jan Hein Donner 1959 - Friðrik Ólafsson 1960 - Bent Larsen and Tigran Petrosian 1961 - Bent Larsen and Borislav Ivkov 1962 - Petar Trifunović 1963 - Jan Hein Donner 1964 - Paul Keres and Iivo Nei 1965 - Lajos Portisch and Efim Geller 1966 - Lev Polugaevsky 1967 - Boris Spassky 1968 - Viktor Korchnoi 1969 - Mikhail Botvinnik and Efim Geller 1970 - Mark Taimanov 1971 - Viktor Korchnoi 1972 - Lajos Portisch 1973 - Mikhail Tal 1974 - Walter Browne 1975 - Lajos Portisch 1976 - Ljubomir Ljubojevic and Friðrik Ólafsson 1977 - Genna Sosonko and Efim Geller 1978 - Lajos Portisch 1979 - Lev Polugaevsky 1980 - Walter Browne and Yasser Seirawan 1981 - Genna Sosonko and Jan Timman 1982 - John Nunn and Yuri Balashov 1983 - Ulf Andersson 1984 - Alexander Beliavsky and Viktor Korchnoi 1985 - Jan Timman 1986 - Nigel Short 1987 - Nigel Short and Viktor Korchnoi 1988 - Anatoly Karpov 1989 - Viswanathan Anand, Predrag Nikolić, Zoltan Ribli and Gyula Sax 1990 - John Nunn 1991 - John Nunn 1992 - Boris Gelfand and Valery Salov 1993 - Anatoly Karpov 1994 - Predrag Nikolić 1995 - Alexey Dreev 1996 - Vassily Ivanchuk 1997 - Valery Salov 1998 - Vladimir Kramnik and Viswanathan Anand 1999 - Garry Kasparov 2000 - Garry Kasparov 2001 - Garry Kasparov 2002 - Evgeny Bareev 2003 - Viswanathan Anand 2004 - Viswanathan Anand 2005 - Péter Lékó 2006 - Veselin Topalov and Viswanathan Anand 2007 - Levon Aronian, Teimour Radjabov and Veselin Topalov