Konex chess tournament

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The first Konex Master Chess Tournament organized by the founder and president of the Konex Foundation, Luis Ovsejevich, started off in Buenos Aires in 1977. The foundation sponsored Marcelo Tempone, World Chess Champion Junior, for further training and so as to participate in international tournaments (1979-1980), the Argentine Team to the Olympiads for players under 26, held at Mexico City 1980, the Argentine Chess Team, to the First World Chess Championship for Teams, held in Lucerne, Switzerland, in 1985, Hugo Hernán Spangenberg (13 years old) in the Infant World Chess Championship, at Puerto Rico 1989, and the participation of the Argentine and South American (Female) Champion Claudia Amura in the Inter-Zone Chess Tournament in Moscow, Russia, in 1990.^[1]

Konex Master Chess Tournament

#	Year	Winner
1	1977	Raúl Sanguineti (Argentina)
2	1979	Viktor Korchnoi (Switzerland) Ljubomir Ljubojević (Yugoslavia)
3	1980	Jorge Szmetan (Argentina)
4	1985	Miguel Quinteros (Argentina) Iván Morovic (Chile)
5	1987	Mikhail Tal (Soviet Union)
6	1988	Gilberto Milos (Brazil) Zenon Franco (Paraguay)
7	1991	Pablo Ricardi (Argentina)
8	1994	Pablo Zarnicki (Argentina)

References

↑ http://www.fundacionkonex.com.ar/ingles/fundacion_konex/actividades_deporte.asp

v t e Major recurring international chess tournaments

Major present	Alekhine Memorial Bilbao Chess Masters Final Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting London Chess Classic Norway Chess Sinquefield Cup Tal Memorial Tata Steel Chess Tournament Zurich Chess Challenge

Other present	Australian Masters Biel chess tournament Canadian Open Chess Championship Capablanca Memorial Carlos Torre Repetto Memorial Chigorin Memorial Gibraltar Chess Festival Hastings International Chess Congress Lublin Grandmaster Tournament Paul Keres Memorial Tournament Rubinstein Memorial South African Open U.S. Open Chess Championship Vlissingen chess tournament

Recently cancelled	Acropolis International chess tournament Aeroflot Open Aerosvit chess tournament Amber chess tournament Howard Staunton Memorial Tournament Linares International Chess Tournament M-Tel Masters Pearl Spring chess tournament

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 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

City championships	Berlin City Chess Championship Kiev City Chess Championship Leningrad City Chess Championship Moscow City Chess Championship Paris City Chess Championship

List of strong chess tournaments List of mini chess tournaments List of round-robin chess tournaments Chess national championships

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