Zurich Christmas Open

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The Zurich Christmas Open (German: Weihnachtsopen Zürich) is an annual chess tournament that takes place in Zurich, Switzerland. The tournament began in 1977 and has been held 38 consecutive times.[1] In 2013, Polish Grandmaster Radosław Wojtaszek won the tournament.[2][3] In 2014, German grandmaster Arkadij Naiditsch won the tournament.[1]

The tournament has been won four times by Vladimir Tukmakov and Josef Klinger.[4]

Winners

 #   Year  Winner
1 1977 Radovan Govedarica
2 1978 Werner Hug
3 1979 Petar Popovic
4 1980 Radoslav Simic
5 1981 Dragutin Sahovic
6 1982 Gyula Sax
7 1983 Jaime Sunye Neto
8 1984 Stefan Kindermann
9 1985 Josef Klinger
10 1986 Josef Klinger
11 1987 Lubomir Neckar
12 1988 Josef Klinger
13 1989 Heinz Wirthensohn
14 1990 Josef Klinger
15 1991 Jacob Murey
16 1992 Reinhard Lendwai
17 1993 Vadim Milov
18 1994 Vladimir Tukmakov
19 1995 Vladimir Tukmakov
20 1996 Georg Siegel
21 1997 Nedeljko Kelecevic
 22 1998 Vladimir Tukmakov[5]
 23 1999 Vladimir Tukmakov[5]
 24 2000 Vladimir Epishin[5]
 25 2001 Yannick Pelletier[5]
 26 2002 Yannick Pelletier[5]
 27 2003 Stanislav Savchenko[5]
 28 2004 Aloyzas Kveinys[5]
 29 2005 Zoltán Varga[5]
 30 2006 Yannick Pelletier[5]
 31 2007 Florian Jenni[5]
 32 2008 Héra Imre[5]
 33 2009 Leonid Milov[5]
 34 2010 Georg Meier[5]
 35 2011 Igor Kurnosov[5]
 36 2012 Levente Vajda[6]
 37 2013 Radosław Wojtaszek[2][3]
 38 2014 Arkadij Naiditsch[1]
 39 2015 Arkadij Naiditsch[7]

References

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