Alekhine Memorial

The Alekhine Memorial was a recurring chess tournament honoring the former world chess champion Alexander Alekhine.

Winners

Year	Host cities	Winners	Points	Players
1956	Moscow, Soviet Union	Mikhail Botvinnik (Soviet Union) Vasily Smyslov (Soviet Union)	11/15	16
1971	Moscow, Soviet Union	Anatoly Karpov (Soviet Union) Leonid Stein (Soviet Union)	11/17	18
1975	Moscow, Soviet Union	Efim Geller (Soviet Union)	10½/15	16
1986	Cascais, Portugal	Vladimir Bagirov (Soviet Union)	7/10	11
2013	Paris, France Saint Petersburg, Russia	Levon Aronian (Armenia)	5½/9	10

Alekhine Memorial 2013

The first part of the tournament (rounds 1–5) was held at the pavilion built in the Tuileries Garden in Paris, France, on 20–25 April 2013.^[1] The second part (rounds 6–9) was held at the Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on 28 April – 1 May 2013.^[2] The prize money of the tournament is €100,000.^[3]

Tiebreaks

In the case that two or more players have equal points, the following criteria were utilized to decide the placings:^[3]

The largest number of games played with the black pieces.
The largest number of wins.
The result of the personal match.
The Koya score.
The Sonneborn-Berger score.

Standings

	Player	Rating	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Points	Black	Wins	H2H	Koya	SB
1	Levon Aronian (Armenia)	2809	X	½	½	½	½	½	1	1	0	1	5½	5	3
2	Boris Gelfand (Israel)	2739	½	X	½	1	½	½	½	½	1	½	5½	5	2
3	Viswanathan Anand (India)	2783	½	½	X	0	½	1	½	½	1	½	5	4	2
4	Michael Adams (England)	2727	½	0	1	X	½	½	0	½	½	1	4½	5	2
5	Nikita Vitiugov (Russia)	2712	½	½	½	½	X	½	0	1	½	½	4½	5	1	0.5	3.5	20.25
6	Laurent Fressinet (France)	2706	½	½	0	½	½	X	1	½	½	½	4½	5	1	0.5	3.5	20.00
7	Vladimir Kramnik (Russia)	2801	0	½	½	1	1	0	X	½	½	½	4½	4	2	0.5	3.5
8	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France)	2722	0	½	½	½	0	½	½	X	1	1	4½	4	2	0.5	2.5
9	Ding Liren (China)	2707	1	0	0	½	½	½	½	0	X	½	3½	4	1
10	Peter Svidler (Russia)	2747	0	½	½	0	½	½	½	0	½	X	3	4	0

References

External links

Major recurring international chess tournaments

Major present	Bilbao Chess Masters Final Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting Grenke Chess Classic London Chess Classic Norway Chess Shamkir Chess Sinquefield Cup Tata Steel Chess Tournament Zurich Chess Challenge

Other present	Aeroflot Open Australasian Masters Biel Chess Festival Canadian Open Chess Championship Capablanca Memorial Cappelle-la-Grande Open Carlos Torre Repetto Memorial Chigorin Memorial Doeberl Cup Gibraltar Chess Festival Hastings International Chess Congress Lublin Grandmaster Tournament Millionaire Chess Paul Keres Memorial Tournament Qatar Masters Open Reykjavik Open Rubinstein Memorial South African Open U.S. Open Chess Championship Vlissingen chess tournament World Open Xtracon Chess Open Zurich Christmas Open

Recently cancelled	Alekhine Memorial Acropolis International chess tournament Aerosvit chess tournament Amber chess tournament Howard Staunton Memorial Tournament Linares International Chess Tournament Pearl Spring chess tournament Reggio Emilia chess tournament Tal Memorial

Major past	American Chess Congress Carl Schlechter Memorial Tournament DSB Congress General Government chess tournament IBM international chess tournament Konex chess tournament Leopold Trebitsch Memorial Tournament Lone Pine International M-Tel Masters Mar del Plata chess tournament Max Euwe Memorial Tournament Monte Carlo chess tournament Netanya chess tournament Phillips & Drew Kings Piatigorsky Cup San Sebastián chess tournament Silesian Chess Congress Tilburg chess tournament Triberg chess tournament Vidmar Memorial

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