List of round-robin chess tournaments
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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...

 round-robin tournament
Round-robin tournament
A round-robin tournament is a competition "in which each contestant meets all other contestants in turn".-Terminology:...

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  • World Chess Championship 1948
    World Chess Championship 1948
    The 1948 World Chess Championship was a tournament played to determine a new World Chess Champion following the death of the previous champion Alexander Alekhine in 1946. The tournament marked the passing of control of the championship title to FIDE, the International Chess Federation which had...

  • Interzonal
    Interzonal
    Interzonal chess tournaments were tournaments organized by FIDE, the World Chess Federation, and were a stage in the triennial World Chess Championship cycle.- Zonal tournaments :...

     and Candidates Tournament
    Candidates Tournament
    The Candidates Tournament is a chess tournament organized by the world chess federation FIDE since 1950, as the final contest to determine the challenger for the World Chess Championship...

     of the World Chess Championship 1963
    World Chess Championship 1963
    At the World Chess Championship 1963 Tigran Petrosian narrowly qualified to challenge Mikhail Botvinnik for the World Chess Championship, and then won the match to become the ninth World Chess Champion...

  • World Chess Championship 2007
    World Chess Championship 2007
    The World Chess Championship 2007 was held in Mexico City, from September 12, 2007 to September 30, 2007 to decide the world champion in the board game chess. It was an eight-player, double round robin tournament....

  • USSR Chess Championship
    USSR Chess Championship
    This is a list of all the winners of the USSR Chess Championship. It was the strongest national chess championship ever held, with eight world chess champions and four world championship finalists among its winners...

     (most years)
  • U.S. Chess Championship
    U.S. Chess Championship
    The U.S. Chess Championship is an invitational tournament held to determine the national chess champion of the United States. Since 1936, it has been held under the auspices of the U.S. Chess Federation. Until 1999, the event consisted of a round-robin tournament of varying size...

     (most years)
  • Monte Carlo chess tournament
    Monte Carlo chess tournament
    The Monte Carlo chess tournament was established in 1901. There were a series of very strong tournaments held in Monte Carlo, from 1901 to 1904, and again after a long break from 1967 to 1969.-1901:...

     (most years)
  • Corus chess tournament
    Corus chess tournament
    The Tata Steel Chess Tournament formerly called the Corus chess tournament takes place every year, usually in January, in a small town called Wijk aan Zee, part of the larger Beverwijk in the province of North Holland in the Netherlands...

  • Linares chess tournament
    Linares chess tournament
    The Linares International Chess Tournament , is an annual 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...

  • M-Tel Masters
    M-tel Masters
    M-Tel Masters is an annual super-GM chess tournament held since 2005 in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, sponsored and organized by the leading Bulgarian mobile network operator, M-Tel. According to the regulations, each of the six participants plays two games against every other, thus making it a...

  • Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting
    Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting
    The Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting is an elite chess tournament held every summer in Dortmund, Germany.Dortmund is an invite-only event, and only the strongest grandmasters are invited...

     (most years)
  • Hastings
    Hastings 1895 chess tournament
    The Hastings 1895 chess tournament was a round-robin tournament of chess conducted in Hastings, England from August 5 to September 2, 1895.Hastings 1895 was arguably the strongest tournament in history at the time it occurred. All of the strongest players of the generation competed...

     (1895)
  • Nuremberg
    Nuremberg 1896 chess tournament
    The tournament at Nürnberg 1896 should have become 10. Deutschen Schachbund Kongreß , but the local chess club took over the organisation and included no minor groups...

     (1896)
  • Ostend (B)
    Ostend 1907 chess tournament
    The tournament was divided into two sections: the Championship Tournament and the Masters' Tournament. The first section was for players who had previously won an international tournament. The Championship Tournament took place in the Casino of Ostend from 16 May to 14 June 1907...

     (1907)
  • St. Petersburg
    Chigorin Memorial
    The Chigorin Memorial is a chess tournament played in honour of the chess legend Mikhail Chigorin , founder of the Soviet School. The first and most important edition was the one played in 1909 in St. Petersburg. Later on, the tournament was mainly played in the Black Sea resort Sochi. From 1993...

     (1909)
  • San Sebastian
    San Sebastian chess tournament
    -San Sebastian 1911:The tournament was held from February 20 to March 17, 1911. The event was organized by Jacques Mieses, who insisted that all of the expenses of the masters were paid....

     (1911)
  • Carlsbad
    Carlsbad 1911 chess tournament
    Carlsbad is known in the whole chess world thanks to four international tournaments, held in 1907, 1911, 1923 and 1929....

     (1911)
  • Mannheim
    Mannheim 1914 chess tournament
    The 19th DSB Congress , comprising several tournaments, began on20 July 1914 in Mannheim. Germany declared war on Russia and on France , Britain joining in the next day...

     (1914)
  • San Remo
    San Remo 1930 chess tournament
    San Remo 1930 was the first international chess tournament held in the famous San Remo casino. Sixteen chess masters from Europe and the Americas, including the World Champion, played a round robin tournament from 16 January to 4 February 1930...

     (1930)
  • New York
    New York 1931 chess tournament
    At the New York 1931 chess tournament José Raúl Capablanca won with of 10 points from 11 games, 1½ points ahead of Isaac Kashdan ....

     (1931)
  • Nottingham
    Nottingham 1936 chess tournament
    Nottingham 1936, was a 15-player round robin chess tournament held August 10-28 at the University of Nottingham. It was one of the strongest of all time....

     (1936)
  • Kemeri
    Kemeri 1937 chess tournament
    Kemeri 1937 was a chess tournament held in the resort town Ķemeri, Latvia, at the Gulf of Riga from 16 June to 8 July 1937. There were three co-winners: Samuel Reshevsky, Salo Flohr and Vladimir Petrov...

     (1937)
  • AVRO tournament
    AVRO tournament
    The AVRO tournament was a chess tournament held in the Netherlands in 1938, sponsored by the Dutch broadcasting company AVRO. The event was a double round-robin tournament...

     (1938)
  • General Government
    General Government chess tournament
    General Government chess championships were held during World War II:- Participants :*Alexander Alekhine /*Efim Bogoljubow /*Paul Felix Schmidt /*Klaus Junge /*Karl Gilg /*Josef Lokvenc /*Hans Müller /...

     (1940–1944)
  • Munich (1942)
  • Groningen
    Groningen 1946 chess tournament
    Groningen 1946 was the first major international chess tournament to be held after World War II.Held at Groningen in August and September 1946, it was considered a miracle that the Netherlands could stage such an event just fifteen months after the end of the war.Mikhail Botvinnik won the...

    (1946)
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