Linares chess tournament

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The annual Linares chess tournament, usually played around the end of February, takes its name from the city of Linares in the Jaén province of Andalusia, Spain, in which it is held. It is sometimes described as the Wimbledon of chess. It is one of the strongest annual tournaments held on the chess tour, along with the Corus chess tournament and Dortmund chess tournament.

The event, sponsored by Luis Rentero, was first held in 1978. At that time it was not an elite event and was won by the relatively unknown Swede Jaan Eslon (on tie-break from the Argentine Roberto Debarnot). After the following year's event, it was held every other year until 1987 when there was no tournament. That year Linares was the site of the Candidates Final, the match to determine who played World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov for his title, with Anatoly Karpov playing Andrei Sokolov. Since 1988 the Linares chess tournament has been held every year with the exception of 1996, when the Women's World Chess Championship was held.

In 1998, Linares was changed from a single round-robin tournament to a seven player double round-robin event (meaning that each participant plays every other participant twice, once with each color).

Sponsor Luis Rentero is notorious for being a strong opponent of short draws in chess, to the point that in 1991 he offered cash bonuses for playing longer games.

In 2006 and 2007 the first half of the tournament was held in the Mexican city of Morelia, returning to Linares for the second half.

Contents

[edit] Winners

[edit] Full Results

[edit] 1999

Crosstable from TWIC 227: 

XVI Ciudad de Linares (ESP), ii-iii 1999              cat. XX (2735)
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                                  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8 
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1 Kasparov, Gary      g RUS 2812 ** == =1 == 1= 11 =1 11  10.5  2917
2 Kramnik, Vladimir   g RUS 2751 == ** == == == == =1 1=   8.0  2782
3 Anand, Viswanathan  g IND 2781 =0 == ** == =1 == 1= =1   8.0  2778
4 Leko, Peter         g HUN 2694 == == == ** == 1= 0= 0=   6.5  2712
5 Topalov, Veselin    g BUL 2700 0= == =0 == ** =0 =1 ==   6.0  2690
6 Ivanchuk, Vassily   g UKR 2714 00 == == 0= =1 ** 1= 0=   6.0  2688
7 Svidler, Peter      g RUS 2713 =0 =0 0= 1= =0 0= ** =1   5.5  2658
8 Adams, Michael      g ENG 2716 00 0= =0 1= == 1= =0 **   5.5  2657

[edit] 2007

Final Results of 2007:[1] 

XXIV SuperGM Morelia/Linares MEX/ESP (MEX/ESP), 17 ii-10 iii 2007cat. XX (2746)

                                    1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8 

1 Anand, Viswanathan     g IND 2779 ** 11 1= 0= == == == 1=  8.5  2820
2 Carlsen, Magnus        g NOR 2690 00 ** 1= == == 11 1= =0  7.5  2782
3 Morozevich, Alexander  g RUS 2741 0= 0= ** == =1 =1 01 =1  7.5  2775
4 Aronian, Levon         g ARM 2744 1= == == ** == 0= == ==  7.0  2745
5 Svidler, Peter         g RUS 2728 == == =0 == ** == == =1  7.0  2748
6 Ivanchuk, Vassily      g UKR 2750 == 00 =0 1= == ** 1= ==  6.5  2715
7 Topalov, Veselin       g BUL 2783 == 0= 10 == == 0= ** ==  6.0  2690
8 Leko, Peter            g HUN 2749 0= =1 =0 == =0 == == **  6.0  2695

[edit] External links

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