Paul Keres Memorial Tournament

Paul Keres

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
11969Leonid Stein
21971Mikhail Tal
Paul Keres
31973Mikhail Tal
41975Paul Keres
51977Mikhail Tal
61979Tigran Petrosian
71981Mikhail Tal
81983Mikhail Tal
91985Sergey Dolmatov
101987Mikhail Gurevich
111989Georgy 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From 1991 the Tallinn international has been replaced by an annual rapid tournament.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
11991Anto Remmel
21992Leonid Yudasin
31993Jaan Ehlvest
41994Viktor Korchnoi
51995Lembit Oll
61996Vassily Ivanchuk
71997Viktor Gavrikov
81998Suat Atalık
Lembit Oll
91999Viktor Gavrikov Tatiana Stepovaia
102000Vassily Ivanchuk Tatiana Stepovaia
112001Jan Timman Viktorija Čmilytė
122002Viktor Gavrikov Dana Reizniece
132003Alexander Morozevich Pia Cramling
142004Alexei ShirovMaia Chiburdanidze
152005Alexei ShirovEkaterina Kovalevskaya
162006Vassily Ivanchuk
Anatoly Karpov
Rustam Kasimdzhanov
Ilze Bērziņa
18[16]2008Vladimir Malakhov Ilze Bērziņa
Viktorija Čmilytė
192009Alexey Dreev
Vasily Yemelin
Elisabeth Pähtz[17]
202011Alexei Shirov
212012Alexei Shirov
222013Alexei Shirov
232014Igor Kovalenko
242015Sergei Tiviakov
252016Igor 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 Smirnov
2005 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
1975Paul Keres
11976James Tarjan
21977John Watson
31978Robert Zuk
41979Peter Biyiasas
John Grefe
James McCormick
51980Viktor Pupols
61981John Donaldson
Ray Fasano
71982John Donaldson
Eric Tangborn
81983John Donaldson
91984Leon Piasetski
Gordon Taylor
Jeremy Silman
Robert Zuk
101985John Donaldson
Lionel Joyner
John Braley
111986Kevin Spraggett
121987Tom O'Donnell
131988Alex Kuznecov
Kevin Spraggett
141989Juri Vetemaa
151990Jonathan Berry
John Donaldson
161991Ľubomír Ftáčnik
171992Ľubomír Ftáčnik
181993Igor Štohl
191994Jonathan Berry
Juri Vetemaa
Gary Basanta
201995John Hallam
Juri Vetemaa
Yan Teplitsky
211996Georgi Orlov
221997Yan Teplitsky
231998Kevin Spraggett
241999Yan Teplitsky
Georgi Orlov
Jack Yoos
252000Vladimir Epishin
262001Georgi Orlov
272002Fanhao Meng
Georgi Orlov
Jack Yoos
Besnik Beqo
282003Georgi Orlov
292004Georgi Orlov
302005Jack Yoos
312006Alfred Pechisker
322007Georgi Orlov
332008Georgi Orlov
Bindi Cheng
342009Jack Yoos
352010Jack Yoos
Georgi Orlov
Katerina Rohonyan
Manuel Rivas Pastor
Roman Jiganchine
362011Georgi Orlov
Maxim Doroshenko
372012Jack Yoos
382013Georgi Orlov
392014Georgi Orlov[35]
402015Jason Cao[36]

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