Paul Keres Memorial Tournament
The Paul Keres Memorial Tournament is a chess tournament played in honour of chess grandmaster Paul Keres (1916–1975). It usually takes place in Vancouver, Canada and Tallinn, Estonia.
An annual international chess tournament has been held in Tallinn every other year since 1969. Keres won this tournament in 1971 and 1975. Starting in 1977 after Keres' death, it has been called the Paul Keres Memorial Tournament. From 1991, the tournament has been held yearly and changed into a rapid event. From 1999 this tournament also had a women's section. In the past twenty years, apart from this rapid tournament, several other memorial tournaments have been played in honour of Keres.[1]
In 1975, Keres won a tournament in Vancouver. It was his last tournament he would ever play in, as on his way back to his native Estonia, he died from a heart attack. There has been an annual memorial tournament in Vancouver ever since.[2]
Tallinn
Tallinn International
The Tallinn International has been held every other year from 1969 to 1989. It was named after Keres from 1977.[3]
# Year Winner 1 1969 Leonid Stein 2 1971 Mikhail Tal
Paul Keres3 1973 Mikhail Tal 4 1975 Paul Keres 5 1977 Mikhail Tal 6 1979 Tigran Petrosian 7 1981 Mikhail Tal 8 1983 Mikhail Tal 9 1985 Sergey Dolmatov 10 1987 Mikhail Gurevich 11 1989 Georgy Timoshenko
Lembit Oll
Jaan Ehlvest
Tallinn Rapid
From 1991 the Tallinn international has been replaced by an annual rapid tournament. From 1999, the tournament has had a separate women's section.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]
# Year Winner Women's section 1 1991 Anto Remmel 2 1992 Leonid Yudasin 3 1993 Jaan Ehlvest 4 1994 Viktor Korchnoi 5 1995 Lembit Oll 6 1996 Vassily Ivanchuk 7 1997 Viktor Gavrikov 8 1998 Suat Atalık
Lembit Oll9 1999 Viktor Gavrikov Tatiana Stepovaia 10 2000 Vassily Ivanchuk Tatiana Stepovaia 11 2001 Jan Timman Viktorija Čmilytė 12 2002 Viktor Gavrikov Dana Reizniece 13 2003 Alexander Morozevich Pia Cramling 14 2004 Alexei Shirov Maia Chiburdanidze 15 2005 Alexei Shirov Ekaterina Kovalevskaya 16 2006 Vassily Ivanchuk
Anatoly Karpov
Rustam KasimdzhanovIlze Bērziņa 18[16] 2008 Vladimir Malakhov Ilze Bērziņa
Viktorija Čmilytė19 2009 Alexey Dreev
Vasily YemelinElisabeth Pähtz[17] 20 2011 Alexei Shirov 21 2012 Alexei Shirov 22 2013 Alexei Shirov 23 2014 Igor Kovalenko 24 2015 Sergei Tiviakov 25 2016 Igor Kovalenko
Keres Memorial Festival
In the 1990s there have been several Keres memorials in Tallinn which were played at regular time control. These tournaments seem to have been held irregularly.[18][19][20][21] At present there is an annual Keres Memorial Festival which started in 2004 with a special rapid tournament, where Viswanathan Anand emerged as a winner,[22] followed by a regular tournament. The winners of the regular tournament for 2004 and subsequent years are listed below. The field of these tournaments has been notably weaker than that of the rapid tournaments.[23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30]
Year Winner 2004 Kaido Külaots
Artem Smirnov2005 Meelis Kanep 2006 Mikhail Rytshagov 2007 Georgy Timoshenko 2008 Vasily Yemelin 2010 Olav Sepp[31] 2014 Alexandre Danin[32]
Vancouver
The tournament in Vancouver has been played ever since Keres won it in 1975. It was Keres' final tournament, as he died shortly thereafter.[33][34]
| # | Year | Winner |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | Paul Keres | |
| 1 | 1976 | James Tarjan |
| 2 | 1977 | John Watson |
| 3 | 1978 | Robert Zuk |
| 4 | 1979 | Peter Biyiasas John Grefe James McCormick |
| 5 | 1980 | Viktor Pupols |
| 6 | 1981 | John Donaldson Ray Fasano |
| 7 | 1982 | John Donaldson Eric Tangborn |
| 8 | 1983 | John Donaldson |
| 9 | 1984 | Leon Piasetski Gordon Taylor Jeremy Silman Robert Zuk |
| 10 | 1985 | John Donaldson Lionel Joyner John Braley |
| 11 | 1986 | Kevin Spraggett |
| 12 | 1987 | Tom O'Donnell |
| 13 | 1988 | Alex Kuznecov Kevin Spraggett |
| 14 | 1989 | Juri Vetemaa |
| 15 | 1990 | Jonathan Berry John Donaldson |
| 16 | 1991 | Ľubomír Ftáčnik |
| 17 | 1992 | Ľubomír Ftáčnik |
| 18 | 1993 | Igor Štohl |
| 19 | 1994 | Jonathan Berry Juri Vetemaa Gary Basanta |
| 20 | 1995 | John Hallam Juri Vetemaa Yan Teplitsky |
| 21 | 1996 | Georgi Orlov |
| 22 | 1997 | Yan Teplitsky |
| 23 | 1998 | Kevin Spraggett |
| 24 | 1999 | Yan Teplitsky Georgi Orlov Jack Yoos |
| 25 | 2000 | Vladimir Epishin |
| 26 | 2001 | Georgi Orlov |
| 27 | 2002 | Fanhao Meng Georgi Orlov Jack Yoos Besnik Beqo |
| 28 | 2003 | Georgi Orlov |
| 29 | 2004 | Georgi Orlov |
| 30 | 2005 | Jack Yoos |
| 31 | 2006 | Alfred Pechisker |
| 32 | 2007 | Georgi Orlov |
| 33 | 2008 | Georgi Orlov Bindi Cheng |
| 34 | 2009 | Jack Yoos |
| 35 | 2010 | Jack Yoos Georgi Orlov Katerina Rohonyan Manuel Rivas Pastor Roman Jiganchine |
| 36 | 2011 | Georgi Orlov Maxim Doroshenko |
| 37 | 2012 | Jack Yoos |
| 38 | 2013 | Georgi Orlov |
| 39 | 2014 | Georgi Orlov[35] |
| 40 | 2015 | Jason Cao[36] |
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