Chess Oscar is an international award given to the best chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 player every year. The winner is selected by a poll of chess experts across the world, including Grandmasters. The award comprises a bronze

Bronze

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 statuette titled The Fascinated Wanderer. The award had its genesis in 1967 with journalists accredited at chess events voting for the best grandmaster.

The awards were given away uninterrupted until the year 1988. The award resumed in 1995. Since then, it has been coordinated by the Russia

Russia

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n chess magazine 64

64 (chess magazine)

The magazine 64 is a Russian chess and draughts publication, published in Moscow. Its name refers to the number of squares on a chessboard. The magazine awards the Chess Oscar annually.-History:...

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The Chess Oscar is highly regarded in the chess community, as it indicates a premier degree of peer recognition.

Winners

Year	Player	Country
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989-94	no awards
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010

By Person

Player	Country	Wins
	, later	11
		9
		6
		3
		2
		2
		2
		1
		1
		1

By Nation

Country	Wins
	17
	7
	6
	3
	2
	1
	1
	1