Biel chess tournament

The first international Biel Chess Festival was held in 1968. A Grandmaster Tournament has taken place since 1977.^[1]^[2]

#	Year	Grandmaster Tournament	Masters Open Tournament
1	1968		Edwin Bhend (Switzerland)
2	1969		Jan Timman (Netherlands)
3	1970		Predrag Ostojic (Yugoslavia)
4	1971		Stanimir Nikolic (Yugoslavia)
5	1972		Milan Vukic (Yugoslavia)
6	1973		Milan Vukic (Yugoslavia) Janos Flesch (Hungary)
7	1974		Bela Soos (Romania)
8	1975		Mišo Cebalo (Yugoslavia) John Pigott (Australia) David Parr (Australia)
9	1976	Bent Larsen (Denmark) (Interzonal)	Dragutin Sahovic (Yugoslavia) Radovan Govedarica (Yugoslavia)
10	1977	Anthony Miles (England)	Miguel Quinteros (Argentina)
11	1978	Bent Larsen (Denmark)	Charles Partos (Switzerland)
12	1979	Viktor Korchnoi (Switzerland)	Yehuda Gruenfeld (Israel) Jean Hebert (Canada)
13	1980	Yehuda Gruenfeld (Israel)	Israel Zilber (United States) Josip Rukavina (Yugoslavia) Beat Züger (Switzerland) Peter Scheeren (Netherlands)
14	1981	Eric Lobron (Germany) Vlastimil Hort (Czechoslovakia)	Nathan Birnboim (Israel) Laszlo Karsa (Hungary) Ron Henley (United States) Eduard Meduna (Czechoslovakia)
15	1982	John Nunn (England) Florin Gheorghiu (Romania)	Ivan Nemet (Yugoslavia)
16	1983	Anthony Miles (England) John Nunn (England)	Jaan Eslon (Sweden)
17	1984	Vlastimil Hort (Germany) Robert Hübner (Germany)	Carlos Garcia-Palermo (Argentina)
18	1985	Rafael Vaganian (Soviet Union)/ Armenia (Interzonal)	Ian Rogers (Australia) Alon Greenfeld (Israel)
19	1986	Lev Polugaevsky (Soviet Union)/ Belarus Eric Lobron (Germany)	Daniel Campora (Argentina)
20	1987	Boris Gulko (United States)	Lev Gutman (Israel)
21	1988	Ivan Sokolov (Yugoslavia) Bosnia and Herzegovina Boris Gulko (United States)	Gennadi Kuzmin (Soviet Union)/ Ukraine
22	1989	Vassily Ivanchuk (Soviet Union)/ Ukraine	Matthias Wahls (Germany)
23	1990	Anatoly Karpov (Soviet Union)/ Russia	Viktor Gavrikov (Soviet Union)/ Lithuania
24	1991	Alexei Shirov (Latvia)	Zurab Sturua (Soviet Union)/ Georgia
25	1992	Anatoly Karpov (Russia)	Alexander Shabalov (Latvia)
26	1993	Boris Gelfand (Belarus) (Interzonal)	Vadim Milov (Israel)
27	1994	Viktor Gavrikov (Switzerland)	Utut Adianto (Indonesia)
28	1995	Alexei Dreev (Russia)	Igor Glek (Germany)
29	1996	Anatoly Karpov (Russia)	Zurab Sturua (Georgia)
30	1997	Viswanathan Anand (India)	Ildar Ibragimov (Russia)
31	1998	Mladen Palac (Croatia)	Milos Pavlovic (Yugoslavia)
32	1999	Jeroen Piket (Netherlands)	Vadim Milov (Switzerland)
33	2000	Peter Svidler (Russia)	Boris Avrukh (Israel)
34	2001	Viktor Korchnoi (Switzerland)	Boris Avrukh (Israel)
35	2002	Ilya Smirin (Israel)	Milos Pavlovic (Yugoslavia)
36	2003	Alexander Morozevich (Russia)	Mikhail Ulibin (Russia)
37	2004	Alexander Morozevich (Russia)	Christian Bauer (France)
38	2005	Boris Gelfand (Israel) Andrei Volokitin (Ukraine)	Mikhail Kobalia (Russia)
39	2006	Alexander Morozevich (Russia)	Bartosz Soćko (Poland)
40	2007	Magnus Carlsen (Norway)	Mikhail Ulibin (Russia)
41	2008	Evgeny Alekseev (Russia)	Vladimir Belov (Russia)
42	2009	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France)	Boris Grachev (Russia)
43	2010	Fabiano Caruana (Italy)	Alexander Riazantsev (Russia)
44	2011	Magnus Carlsen (Norway)	Hua Ni (China)

References

External links

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