The Reggio Emilia chess tournament is a 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...

 tournament played in Reggio Emilia

Reggio Emilia

Reggio Emilia is an affluent city in northern Italy, in the Emilia-Romagna region. It has about 170,000 inhabitants and is the main comune of the Province of Reggio Emilia....

, Italy. In Italian the tournament is called Torneo di Capodanno (New Year's tournament), as it starts just after Christmas

Christmas

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 and ends on the day of Epiphany (January 6). It was established as an annual event in 1958 by grandmaster Enrico Paoli

Enrico Paoli

Enrico Paoli , was an Italian chess master.He was born in Trieste, Italy, and learned chess when he was nine years old. He won his last Italian Championship at age 60, and organized the famous Reggio Emilia chess tournament...

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In 1982/83 the tournament attracted a new sponsor and by the 1990s the tournament had gained significant international reputation, climaxing in the 1991/1992 edition. This was the first Category 18 tournament ever played; it was won by the 22 year old Viswanathan Anand

Viswanathan Anand

V. Anand or Anand Viswanathan, usually referred as Viswanathan Anand, is an Indian chess Grandmaster, the current World Chess Champion, and currently second highest rated player in the world....

 ahead of Garry Kasparov

Garry Kasparov

Garry Kimovich Kasparov is a Russian chess grandmaster, a former World Chess Champion, writer, political activist, and one of the greatest chess players of all time....

, Anatoly Karpov

Anatoly Karpov

Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov is a Russian chess grandmaster and former World Champion. He was the official world champion from 1975 to 1985 when he was defeated by Garry Kasparov. He played three matches against Kasparov for the title from 1986 to 1990, before becoming FIDE World Champion once...

 and Vassily Ivanchuk.

It is Italy's oldest and most renowned chess tournament. The tournament is usually played as a 10 to 16 player round-robin tournament

Round-robin tournament

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Winners

#	Year	Winner
	1947
-	1951
1	1958-59
2	1959-60
3	1960-61
4	1961-62
5	1962-63
6	1963-64
7	1964-65
8	1965-66
9	1966-67
10	1967-68
11	1968-69
12	1969-70
13	1970-71
14	1971-72
15	1972-73
16	1973-74
17	1974-75
18	1975-76
19	1976-77
20	1977-78
21	1978-79
22	1979-80
23	1980-81
24	1981-82
25	1982-83
26	1983-84
27	1984-85
28	1985-86
29	1986-87
30	1987-88
31	1988-89
32	1989-90
33	1990-91
34	1991-92
35	1992-93
36	1993-94
37	1994-95
38	1995-96
39	1996-97
40	1997-98
41	1998-99
42	1999-00
43	2000-01
44	2001-02
45	2002-03
46	2003-04
47	2004-05
48	2005-06
49	2006-07
50	2007-08
51	2008-09
52	2009-10
53	2010-11

External links

• Results, games and crosstables of all editions
• 2006 edition from chessbase.com
• The 2007 edition from chessbase.com http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4363, http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4368
• Introduction to the 2007 edition
• History of the tournament 1958–1985
• 2010/11 edition