Alekhine Memorial
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The Alekhine Memorial is 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, RussiaLevon 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]
Tie breaks
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 5.0 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 3.0 4 0
References
External links
- Alekhine Memorial (Official site)
- WhyChess: Games of the 2013 tournament
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