Chigorin Memorial
The Chigorin Memorial is a chess tournament played in honour of Mikhail Chigorin (1850–1908), founder of the Soviet Chess School and one of the leading players of his day. The first and most important edition was the one played in 1909 in St. Petersburg. Later on, an international invitation Memorial tournament series was established, and mainly played in the Black Sea resort Sochi (from 1963 to 1990). Further irregular tournaments had been held in 1947, 1951, 1961, and 1972, played in diverse venues. From 1993 the venue returned to his hometown. The Memorial is now played as an Open event.
St. Petersburg 1909 Edit
President of the organising committee was Peter Petrovich Saburov, President of the St. Petersburg Chess Club. Members of the committee were Boris Maliutin, O. Sossnitzky, V. Tschudowski, Sergius A. Znosko-Borovsky and Eugene A. Znosko-Borovsky.[1] The main event lasted from 14 February to 12 March 1909.
N° Name 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Total 1 Akiba Rubinstein (Poland) * 1 1 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 0 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 14½ 2 Emanuel Lasker (German Empire) 0 * ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 14½ 3 Rudolf Spielmann (Austrian Empire) 0 ½ * 1 0 1 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 11 4 Oldřich Duras (Bohemia) 0 0 0 * 0 1 ½ 0 ½ 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 11 5 Ossip Bernstein (Russian Empire) ½ ½ 1 1 * 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 ½ 0 0 0 ½ ½ 1 10½ 6 Richard Teichmann (German Empire) ½ 0 0 0 1 * 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 10 7 Julius Perlis (Austrian Empire) ½ 0 0 ½ 0 1 * ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 0 0 1 9½ 8 Erich Cohn (German Empire) 0 0 ½ 1 1 ½ ½ * 0 0 1 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 9 9 Carl Schlechter (Austrian Empire) 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 * 1 0 0 1 1 ½ 0 1 ½ 1 9 10 Gersz Salwe (Poland) 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 1 0 * ½ 1 1 1 ½ 0 1 1 1 9 11 Savielly Tartakower (Austrian Empire) ½ 0 ½ 1 0 ½ ½ 0 1 ½ * 0 0 0 ½ 1 1 1 ½ 8½ 12 Jacques Mieses (German Empire) 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 ½ 1 0 1 * ½ 1 1 1 0 1 1 8½ 13 Fyodor Duz-Khotimirsky (Russian Empire) 1 1 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 0 1 ½ * ½ ½ ½ 1 0 1 8 14 Leo Forgács (Hungary) 0 0 1 0 1 ½ ½ 1 0 0 1 0 ½ * ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 7½ 15 Amos Burn (British Empire) ½ 0 ½ 0 1 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ * 1 ½ ½ 0 7 16 Milan Vidmar (Austrian Empire) 0 0 0 0 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 0 0 ½ ½ 0 * ½ 1 0 7 17 Abraham Speijer (Netherlands) 0 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 1 ½ 0 0 0 1 0 ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ 6 18 Sergey von Freymann (Russian Empire) 0 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 1 0 ½ 0 0 0 1 1 ½ 0 ½ * 0 5½ 19 Eugene Znosko-Borovsky (Russian Empire) 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 * 5
Rubinstein and Lasker won 875 rubles (each), Spielmann and Duras 475 rubles (each), Bernstein 190 rubles, Teichmann 120 rubles, Perlis 80 rubles, Cohn, Schlechter, and Salwe 40 rubles (each).[2]
1947-1972 Edit
From 1947, there were several Chigorin memorial tournaments, but it was not until 1963 that it was established as an annual event in Sochi. These tournaments were all played on the round robin format.
Year Winner City 1947 Mikhail Botvinnik Moscow 1951 Vasily Smyslov Leningrad 1961 Mark Taimanov Rostov-on-Don 1972 Lev Polugaevsky Kislovodsk
Sochi period (1963-1990) Edit
# Year Winner City 1 1963 Lev Polugaevsky Sochi 2 1964 Nikolai Krogius Sochi 3 1965 Wolfgang Unzicker
Boris SpasskySochi 4 1966 Viktor Korchnoi Sochi 5 1967 Alexander Zaitsev
Vladimir Simagin
Nikolai Krogius
Leonid Shamkovich
Boris SpasskySochi 6 1973 Mikhail Tal Sochi 7 1974 Lev Polugaevsky Sochi 8 1976 Lev Polugaevsky
Evgeny SveshnikovSochi 9 1977 Mikhail Tal Sochi 10 1979 Nukhim Rashkovsky Sochi 11 1980 Alexander Panchenko Sochi 12 1981 Vitaly Tseshkovsky Sochi 13 1982 Mikhail Tal Sochi 14 1983 Anatoly Vaisser
Evgeny SveshnikovSochi 15 1984 Georgy Agzamov Sochi 16 1985 Evgeny Sveshnikov Sochi 17 1986 Svetozar Gligorić
Alexander Beliavsky
Rafael VaganianSochi 18 1987 Sergey Smagin
Evgeny Pigusov
Andrei KharitonovSochi 19 1988 Sergey Dolmatov Sochi 20 1989 Alexey Vyzmanavin Sochi 21 1990 Vadim Ruban Sochi
Back to St. Petersburg (1993-present) Edit
Since 1993, the Chigorin Memorial has been played as an open Swiss system tournament. The 13th edition was not played for superstitious reasons. The winners are listed below.
# Year Winner 1 1993 Alexey Dreev 2 1994 Ildar Ibragimov 3 1995 Vladimir Burmakin 4 1996 Alexei Fedorov
Lembit Oll5 1997 Konstantin Sakaev 6 1998 Sergey Volkov 7 1999 Alexander Grischuk
Sergey Volkov8 2000 Valerij Filippov 9 2001 Mikhail Kobalia 10 2002 Alexander Fominyh 11 2004 Sergey Ivanov 12 2005 Igor Zakharevich
Roman Ovetchkin14 2006 Dmitry Bocharov 15 2007 Sergei Movsesian 16 2008 Vladimir Belov 17 2009 Sergey Volkov 18 2010 Eltaj Safarli 19 2011 Dmitry Bocharov 20 2012 Alexander Areshchenko 21 2013 Pavel Eljanov 22 2014 Ivan Ivanisevic 23 2015 Kirill Alekseenko 24 2016 Kirill Alekseenko 25 2017 Kirill Alekseenko 26 2018 Pouya Idani 27 2019 Vitaly Sivuk
References Edit
- ^ The Saburovs by Edward Winter
- ^ St. Petersburg 1909 and 1914 2008-06-18 at the Wayback Machine
- The International Chess Congress: St. Petersburg 1909, New York, edition Lasker Press, 1910 (reprinted by Dover books 1971)
External links Edit
- The Independent, 1999, Jon Speelman: Results 1993-1999
- Results from The Week in Chess: TWIC 157 (1997), TWIC 212 (1998), TWIC 262 (1999), TWIC 314 (2000), TWIC 365 (2001), TWIC 418 (2002), TWIC 572 (2005), TWIC 625 (2006), TWIC 683 (2007), TWIC 730 (2008), 2009, 2011
- Results from ChessBase: 2006 edition, 2010 edition
- Results from Ruschess:
- Results from Rusbase: Editions 1961-1990
- Results from Chess-Results: 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015