Vidmar Memorial

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The Milan Vidmar Memorial is a chess tournament commemorating Milan Vidmar (1885–1962), a leading Slovenian grandmaster.

The first Vidmar Memorial was held in 2–20 June 1969 in Ljubljana. In subsequent years the tournament has been held in several different Slovenian cities.^[1]

Winners

#	Year	City	Winner
1	1969	Ljubljana	Albin Planinc (Yugoslavia)
2	1973	Ljubljana, Portorož	Lajos Portisch (Hungary)
3	1975	Portorož, Ljubljana	Anatoly Karpov (Soviet Union)
4	1977	Ljubljana, Portorož	Bent Larsen (Denmark)
5	1979	Bled, Portorož	Jan Timman (Netherlands)
6	1985	Portorož, Ljubljana	Lajos Portisch (Hungary), Zoltán Ribli (Hungary)
7	1987	Portorož, Ljubljana	Ivan Sokolov (Yugoslavia)
8	1989	Ljubljana, Rogaška Slatina	Predrag Nikolić (Yugoslavia)
9	1991	Bled, Rogaška Slatina	Predrag Nikolić (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
10	1993	Portorož, Rogaška Slatina	Ivan Sokolov (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
11	1995	Ptuj	Stefan Kindermann (Germany)
12	1997	Portorož	Vadim Zviagintsev (Russia)
13	1999	Portorož	Alexander Beliavsky (Slovenia)
14	2001	Portorož	Alexander Beliavsky (Slovenia)
15	2003	Portorož	Alexander Beliavsky (Slovenia), Emil Sutovsky (Israel)
16	2005	Portorož	Alexander Beliavsky (Slovenia)
17	2007	Ljubljana	Duško Pavasovič (Slovenia)

References

↑ dr. Milan Vidmar Memorial Tournaments

XVII dr. Milan Vidmar Memorial-National Championship at fide.com

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

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