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Recent Tournaments and Matches - Annofritzed!

• 12events.zip Twelve Annofritzed Events!Linares 2003, Kasparov-Paehtz, Bacrot-Gelfand, Man vs. Machine... Thanks to Dr.Rezaian! (31/Mar/2003)
• corus2003.zip The Corus A Tournament 2003 in Wijk aan Zee! Annofritzed by Br5an@sbcglobal.net . Thanks again! (27/Mar/2003)
• 02corus.zip The Corus A Tournament 2002 in Wijk aan Zee! Annofritzed by Br5an@aol.com. Thanks! (13/Apr/2002)
• 01corus.zip The Corus A Tournament 2001 in Wijk aan Zee! Annofritzed by Br5an@aol.com. All annotations are by Nimzo 8 (90 seconds). Thanks! (09/Jun/2001)
• 01linare.zip The double round robin Linares Tournament 2001 was a Cat 19 event with a clear winner and five(!) runner-ups! Kasparov scored a clear 7.5/10, whereas all the other 5 contestants Polgar, Karpov, Shirov, Leko and young star Grischuk scored just 4.5/10. (15/Mar/2001)
• saraj00.zip The Bosna SuperGM Tournament Sarajewo 2000 was a Cat 19 event with an interesting mixture of six players with Elo >2700 and six players with Elo <2700. The players of the first group (Kasparov, Adams, Shirov, Morozevich, Topalov, Bareev) ranked 1-6. With the exception of Morozevich they all scored above their current ELO's, whereas among the <2700 players only Sokolov could score above their Elo's. Garry Kasparov again proved to be world's No 1 with 8,5/11, closely followed by Mickey Adams and Alexei Shirov with 8/11. (31/May/2000)
• lin2000.zip The double round robinLinares Tournament 2000(Cat 21) was one of the closest races in the history of chess tournaments. Kasparov and Kramnik joined first with a score of 6/10, followed by the other four contestants Anand, Leko, Shirov and Khalifman, all scoring 4.5/10. Only Khalifman (+78) and Kramnik (+65) scored better than their rating indicated. (14/Mar/2000)
• wijk00.zip The CORUS Wijk aan Zee Torunament 2000(Cat 18) was another triumph for Garry Kasparov, scoring 9.5/13. Kramnik, Leko and Anand shared 8.0/13. All these 4 players did not lose a single game! Jeroen Piket achieved with 6.5/13 and a +69 score the best score compared to his ELO ranking. (04/Feb/2000)
• eut.zip The European Team Championship 1999 was held in Nov 27th - Dec 8th 1999 in Batumi, Georgia! Congratulations to Armenia, winning the men tournament, followed by Hungary and Germany! The womens Championship was sensationally won by the ladies from Slovakia. See the info-files in both databases for more results. (04/Jan/2000)
• ga_xie99.zip The FIDE Women World Championship match Gallimova - Xie Jun ! Congratulations to Xie Jun winning the title back from Gallimova. Shame to FIDE for excluding Szusza Polgar out of this match! (8/Sep/99)

• vegas99.zip The FIDE World Championship in Las Vegas 1999! Congratulations to Alexander Khalifman for winning the KO-fight for the FIDE crown. Now all games annofritzed!(30/Aug/99)

• dortm99.zip The Dortmund 1999 Cat 19 GM-tournament was won by the youngest contestant, 19 year old Peter Leko. Congratulations for this greatest win in his young career! Wladimir Kramnik is (once again) second, followed by Karpov and Anand. All these 4 players didn't lose a single game! (20/Jul/99)

• leon99.zip Anand smashes Karpov 5:1 at Leon's Advanced Chess 1999 event. See what Junior5.0 says about their play. Sorry, the annofritzations miss the Zeitnot-disasters in some of Karpov's games. Two of the six games lost Karpov on time... (15/Jul/99)

• waz98.zip The Hoogoven's Tournament in Wijk aan Zee 1998 was the first of that year that was won by Vishy Anand (soon after missing the FIDE-WC title against Karpov in Lausanne). Joint first was Kramnik. (6/Jul/99)

• wccc99.zip The games of the 9th World Computer Chess Championships at Paderborn 1999. With congratulations to Stefan Meyer-Kahlen's program Shredder3 for the WCCC title! Shared first with 5.5/7 points was Bruce Morland's Ferret, followed by Fritz and Cilkchess (MIG says that this funny program is run on a NASA(!) Supercomputer) just half a point behind. See how different computerprograms play different styles of chess and how Junior annotates their moves (at very short 5sec/move)! Even 20 of the 105 games were awarded with the "tactical patzer" medal by Junior. Full coverage of the 9th WCCC in Paderborn, Germany at http://www.uni-paderborn.de/~wccc99/. (5/Jul/99)

• ccgiant.zip The Siemens Giants tournament 1999 in Frankfurt was again won by Gary Kasparov, just half a point ahead of Anand and Kramnik. Fourth and (single) last was Anatoly Karpov, just one point behind the (single) winner. This might be a (joint) world record (see the next announcement below). (05/Jul/99)

• mos_pm99.zip The Petrosian memorial tournament in Moscow 1999 brought 42 draws in 45 games, which probably might be another world record. At this tournament the (joint) first three players got 5 and the (joint) last players got 4 points. When you see the many short draws you might suggest to move that collection to the "Curiosities"-section ;-) (05/Jul/99)

• ff99mast.zip The Cat. 16 Masters Tournament in Frankfurt 1999 was won by Fritz6, ahead of world class players like Leko, Topalov, Svidler, Judit Polgar, Lutz, Morozevich and poor Mickey Adams just finishing last at this 25min/game event in Frankfurt. Mike Crowther at TWIC said: "The organiser has guaranteed that the computer will play in the Giants next year.. " So let us await Fritz among the chess giants (and let us see which giants will come to play against Fritzen). (05/Jul/99)

• saraj99.zip The International Grandmaster Supertournament in Sarajewo, Bosnia in May 1999! Garry Kasparov won his third top tournament of this year; joint second were Shirov and Bareev. Congratulations! Annofritzed by Ignacio Derecho, Madrid! Many thanks!

• polgarf5.zip The eight games match between Judit Polgar and Fritz 5.32 in Budapest at the end of April 1999 showed some beautiful fighting games of Judit and spectacular playing strength of Fritz on a fast Pentium machine. See the 30 sec/move annofritzations of Fritzens "brother" Junior5, provided by Ignacio Derecho, Spain. Thanks for this contribution!

• dosher99.zip Dos Hermanas 99 games annofritzed! Congratulations to Mickey Adams for his fine win; followed by Kramnik and Topalov! All three had no loss (Topalov just one win). See "Chess-Grandpa" Viktor Kortschnoj fighting the youngsters and enjoy Judit Polgar dancing Csardas with poor Vishy Anand in round 1 and Peter Svidler in the last round. Unlucky Vishy had a terrible tournament, scoring 163 points below his rating and finishing on a tied last place. FIDE Champion Anatoly Karpov did just enough for scoring slightly below his ELO-rating.

• lin99.zip Linares 1999! All games annofritzed with Junior 5.0 (10 sec/move)! Congratulations to Garri Kasparov for his great win of that tournament! Here are the games of Kasparov at Linares, annofritzed with 30sec/move by Ignacio Derecho, Spain. Thanks for this contribution!

• waz99.zip Annofritzed games of the Hoogovens Tournament 1999 at Wijk aan Zee, including Garry Kasparov's fabulous win against Topalov in Round 4! See how Fritz annotates Kasparovs breathtaking moves 24 - 36 (with 120 sec per move annofritzation time)! I must admit: the play of Garry in this game was a bit too brilliant for Fritz! -- Thanks to Tauno Leinonen for providing kas-top.zip, a comprehensive collection of analyses of Kasparov - Topalov at Wijk 1999, the "game of the century", as he coins it!

• 98gnt.zip Frankfurt Chess Giants Classic Tournament Summer 1998 (annofritzed with 60 sec/move by W. Krietsch - thanx!): I have changed the format of these games from CBF to CBH, in order to make it readable with CBLight.

• mad92_98.zip The Madrid Magistral Tournament Series 1992-1998! Each tournament in in a different database. Winners were top players like Karpov, Kramnik, young lady Judit Polgar, Kortschnoj, Topalov (twice) and 1998 Anand. Annofritzed with 30 sec/move time setting by Ignacio Derecho from Check Computers. Thanks!

Classical Tournaments and Matches - Annofritzed!

• todolina.zip All Linares Tournaments! Thanks for Silvio Canto for this great contribution!(20/Feb/2001)

• capa67.zip The Capablanca Memorial 1967 tournament was a clear win for Bent Larsen with 14,5/19, followed by Taimanov, Smyslov and Polugayevsky. Thanks for Dr. F. Spooner for this great contribution!(08/Jan/2001)

• montr79.zip The Montreal 1979 tournament showed three chess World-Champions. Karpov and Mischa Tal in one of his last big tournaments finished 12/18 in this double round-robin event; followed by Portisch, Ljubojevic, Timman and Spassky.(18/Jul/2000)

• cop1923.zip The Copenhangen 1923 tournament was annofritzed by Stefano Laiolo. Thanks!(15/Jun/2000)

• salt48.zip The Saltsjobaden 1948 Interzonal tournament showed the advent of a new generation of chess heroes: Bronstein was the winner with 13,5/19, followed by Szabo, Boleslawsky, Kotov, Lilienthal, Stahlberg and Najdorf. Other prominent participants were Flohr, Gligoric, Pachman, Ragozin and from the older generation Pirc and Tartakower in one of his last big tournaments. Many thanks to Gregorio Alegria from Mar del Plata for this nice contribution!(10/Jan/2000)

• 56urs_ch.zip The 23rd Soviet Chess Championships in Leningrad 1956 were dominated by "local hero" Boris Spassky, Mark Taimanov and Yuri Averbakh. All three players ended with 11.5/17 after the regular tournament, followed by Kortschnoj, Kholmov and young Misha Tal. The playoff of the first three was clearly won by Taimanov, followed by Averbakh. "Local hero" Boris Spassky ended third. (01/Dec/1999)
• 63hava.zip The Capablanca Memorial Tournament 1963 in Havana was one of the strongest tournaments of that year. "Terrible Viktor" Kortschnoj came first with a fine score of 16.5/21; followed by Tal, Geller and Pachman, each with 16/21. (01/Dec/1999)

• 68palma.zip The Palma de Mallorca 1968 tournamtent was another glorious success for Viktor Kortschnoj, scoring 14/17 and losing not a single game in 17 rounds! He left some of the strongest players at those days behind him: Boris Spassky and Bent Larsen scored 13/17; Tigran Petrosian made 11.5/17. (01/Dec/1999)

• zuer53.zip The 1953 Candidates tournament at Zuerich was one of the most outstanding chess events of this century! Except from WC Botvinnik the whole world elite of those days was present: Smyslov, Bronstein, Keres, Petrosian, Rehsevsky, Geller, Taimanov, Euwe and many others. 210 games, 30 rounds, 15 participants! Two tournament books of this event have been written:
  • Bronstein's world famous Zuerich 1953 candidate tournament [Amazon.de]. This is one of my favorite chess books on my shelf. In a worldwide survey of the British Chess Magazine this book was considered by BCM's readers to be the second most important in chess history (1st was Bobby Fischer's "60 Memorable Games"). (In German: Sternstunden des Schachs. Zürich 1953).
  • A fine German edition of Euwe's: Schachelite im Kampf - WM-Kandidatenturnier 1953, with opening analyses of Paul Keres and round reports of Paul Lange. That book is out of print; you might get still a copy at special german chess-book suppliers like http://www.niggemann.com/
  (New update with additions of WW. Simpson - thanks! - 12/Nov/99)

• lin1989.zip Linares 1989 (Cat 16) was won by Vassily Ivanchuk, followed by Karpov, Lubojevic, Short, Timman, Jussupov and others. (06/Sep/99)

• palma96.zip The Las Palmas 1996 tournament was the first Cat. 21 event in chess history. Kasparov won, followed by Anand, Kramnik, Topalov, Karpov and Ivanchuk. (04/Aug/99)

• sici1994.zip The Sicilian's Thematic Tournament at Buenos Aires 1994 was a strong double round robin Cat 18 event with Salov winning ahead of Anand, Invanchuk, Judit Polgar, Anatoly Karpov and others. Annofritzed with 30sec/move time setting by Ignacio Derecho, Spain. Thanks!
  Dabobert Kohlmeyer wrote a (german) tournament book of this event titled Sizilianisch pur. Buenos Aires '94.

• biel93.zip Biel 1993 interzonal tournament was one of the biggest tournaments of this decade. More than 400 games!

• lin93.zip Linares 1993 was a "modern classic". Gary Kasparov won with a score of 10/13. Karpov and Anand shared 8.5/13, followed by the youngsters Shirov, Kramnik, (not so young) Salov and Ivanchuk. In the second half of the 14 players gamescore there are Beliavsky, Bareev, Gata Kamsky, Jussupow, Jan Timman, Gelfand and Ljubojevic. (21/Jul/99)

• fi_spa92.zip The Fischer-Spassky 1992 rematch in Yugoslvia was after 30 rounds again won by Bobby. Following tournament books are available:
  • No Regrets : Fischer-Spassky [Amazon.de] (Yasser Seirawan)
  • Fischer-Spassky 1992 : World Chess Championship Rematch (Shamkovich) is out of print.
  • Fischer gegen Spasski 1972 und 1992 (in german) of Rudolf Teschner covers both Fischer-Spassky matches
  ((05/Sep/99))

• tilb90.zip Tilburg 1990 tournament was a double round robin event won by Gata Kamsky and Vassily Ivanchuk, both scoring 8,5/14. Gelfand, Short, Timman, Andersson, Nikolic and Yasser Seirawan were the other participants. (15/Dec/1999)

• lin90.zip Linares 1990 was a straight win with 8/11 for Garri Kasparov, followed by Gelfand, Salov, Ivanchuk, Short, Spassky, Portisch and others.(15/Dec/1999)

• hani90.zip Haninge 1990 brought a great win for Yasser Seirawan with 8.5/11 in this Cat 14 event. The runner-ups were Ehlvest, Karpov, Polugaevsky and Ulf Andersson.(15/Dec/1999)

• wijk90.zipWijk aan Zee 1990 was a fine win for Dr. John Nunn with 8/13, followed by Portisch, Andersson, Short, Kortschnoj and others. Young Vishy Anand made just the 10th rank among 14 participants. (15/Dec/1999)

• tilb89.zip Ten years ago the tournament in Tilburg 1989 brought a great win for WC Gary Kasparov, followed by Kortschnoj, Ljubojevic, Sax, Ivanchuk and others.

• wc1972.zip The Fischer-Spassky 1972 WC match in Rejkjavik was probably the chess event with the highest public attention outside the chess community ever. Fischer's start was a fiasco: In the first game Bobby amazingly blundered away his last bishop with 29. ... Bxh2, and thus lost a drawn endgame; in the second game he refused to play because he did not accept the (hidden!) TV cameras in the tournament hall. But for the rest of the match he scored +6 -1 =11 and thus and after only 21 rounds (of 24) he had won the WC title with a 12.5 - 8.5 score. The two(!) tournament books of C. H. O'D. Alexander and Gligoric (both with a lot of fine background) were the first two chessbooks I bought at the age of fourteen! Unfortunately these are (like the tournament reports of Fischer himself, Fine, Reshevksy, Golombek, Evans or Steiner...) out of print. But a few are still available:
  • Extreme Chess [Amazon.de]: C. J. S. Purdy Annotates the World Championships : Alekhine-Euwe I, 1935 : Alekhine-Euw II, 1937 : Fisher-Spassky I, 1972
  • Fischer gegen Spasski 1972 und 1992 (in german) of Rudolf Teschner covers both Fischer-Spassky matches
  (05/Sep/99)

• mosc71.zip The Alekhine Memorial Tournament in Moscow 1971 was the first great win of that years shooting star Anatoly Karpov, who joined first with Leonid Stein. That tournament was one of the rare events with 5 World Champions participating (Smyslov, Tal, Petriosian, Spassky and Karpov). (The other event I know was Nottingham 1936, see below).

• herc70.zip The Herceg Novi Blitz tournament 1970! See four chess world champions and other top players in 30 blitz games! Fischer, Tal, Reshevsky, Smyslov, Korchnoj, Petrosian, Bronstein and others. BTW: Herceg Novi is a beautiful place at the Southern Dalmatian coast of the Adriatic Sea in Montenegro, Yugoslavia. It is situated at the entrance of an incredibly shaped bay: see the map at http://www.herceg-novi.com/english/geograf.htm

• palma69.zip The Palma de Mallorca 1969 tournament was one of the biggest events 30 years ago. The danish fighter Bent Larsen was winning with 12/17, followed by Petrosian, Kortschnoj, Hort, Spassky, Diez del Corral, Mecking, Panno, Pomar, Najdorf, Szabo, Unzicker and others.

• waz69.zip A special goodie of the year 1969 was the Hoogoves tournament in Wiik aan Zee 1969. Shared winners were Efim Geller and Mikhail Botvinnik, with 10,5/15, followed just half a point behind by Portisch and Paul Keres. Other participants were Olafsson, Benkö, Donner, Lombardy, Medina and others. This was both for Botvinnik and Keres one of the latest tournament successes in their career. (05/Jul/99)

• sanmon66.zip The famous Piatigorsky Cup Tournament in Santa Monica 1966 was probably the strongest held in the USA after New York 1927. Spassky was first, just half a point ahead of Bobby Fischer; followed by Larsen, Unzicker, Portisch, Reshevsky, Najdorf, Ivkov and Donner.

• usa_ch63.zip The US-Championship 1963 was won by Bobby Fischer with a perfect 11/11 score! Here is the complete tournament with Larry Evans, the Byrne brothers, Bisguier and other top US-chess cracks of those days! (28/Jul/99)

• bled61.zip The "Alekhine Memorial" tournament in Bled 1961, with Tal, Fischer, Petrosian, Keres, Gligoric, Geller, Najdorf and other chess cracks ... Enjoy 18 year old Bobby Fischer demolishing Soviet super-GM's Tal, Petrosian and Geller! (Paul Keres just escaped against the youngster in a tough endgame with perpetual check.) Another special goodie of this tournament is the fine queen sac of Petrosian in his game against Pachman. See also how Fritz "annotates" the short draws of the 4 Soviet GM's in their games against each other: Petrosian - Geller and Tal - Keres are the "best" examples ;-)

• avro1938.zip The 1938 AVRO tournament in the Netherlands was one of the top tournaments this century! See how the WC Capablanca, Alekhine, Euwe and (not yet WC) Botvinnik play against Keres, Fine, Reshevsky and Flohr! See also an article at Chess Cafe! Thanks to Brian Kostic for annofritzation with Deeeep Fritz and 90sec/move! The old AVRO-file is here: avro.zip

• keme37.zip The Kemeri 1937 tournament was won by Sammy Reshevsky and Salo Flohr, followed by Alekhine, Keres, Petrov, Steiner, Tartakower, Fine, Stahlberg, Mikenas, Rellstab and others...

• nott36.zip Nottingham 1936: Five World Champions in one tournament: Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, current WC Euwe and Botvinnik! Alekhine ended with 9/14 just 6th, only one single point behind the winnig duo Botvinnik and Capablanca (10/14); followed by Euwe, Fine and Reshevsky, (9.5/14). This is probably the closest race in the history of top class tournaments. And it is the last big tournament victory of the unforgettable Capablanca.
  Alekhines tournament book (ISBN 0486201899)

• zuer34.zip The Zürich 1934 tournament was the main event of that year. Alekhine was first, followed by Euwe, Flohr, Bogoljubow, Emanuel Lasker, Nimzowitsch (in one of his last appearances), Bernstein, Stahlberg, Johner and others.

• sanrem30.zip The San Remo 1930 tournament showed a fabulous win of Alekhine with 14/15, followed by Nimzowitsch, Rubinstein, Bogoljubow and Yates. See how Alekhine kills the master of blockade, Nimzowitsch, in a blockading game on the c-file. Nimzowitsch is being squeezed there until he could not breathe any more ... (="Zugzwang", if you like it more technically!)

• karlsb29.zip Seventy years ago the tournament of Karlsbad 1929 was the top rated tournament of the year. In the absence of WC Alekhine Aaron Nimzowitsch got one of the greatest wins in his career; followed by Capablanca, Spielmann, Rubinstein, Becker, Vidmar, young Euwe, Bogoljubow, Grünfeld, Canal, Matisons, Tartakower, Maroczy, Colle, .... and ... last not least Miss Vera Menchik, the first (inofficial) women World Champion. Twenty-two participants played 231 games in 21 rounds! - After winning the Karlsbad 1929 tournament Nimzowitsch claimed his right to challenge WC Alekhine. But Alekhine played (and easily won) a WC match against Bogoljubow later that same year. See a page of Willem Jan Nijenhuis "On Nimzowitsch" about details!
  The Karlsbad 1929 tournament book (ISBN 0486241157) by Nimzowitsch is out of print.

• ny1927.zip The New York 1927 tournament was an absolutely top event of the 20th century! Current WC Capablanca won, followed by Alekhine, who became WC later that year. Third was Nimzowitsch, followed by Vidmar, Spielmann and Frank Marshall. There were four rounds and 60 games! The tournament book was written by Alekhine. (28.Aug.99)

• semm26.zip The tournament at Semmering 1926, Austria was the peak in the career of Rudolf Spielmann, winning against Alekhine, Vidmar, Nimzowitsch, Tartakower, Rubinstein, Tarrasch (in one of his last appearances), Reti, Gruenfeld, Janowsky, .... Annofritzed with Junior 5.

• baden25.zip The tournament in Baden-Baden 1925 was the top event that year. Alekhine was first, followed by Rubinstein, Fritz Sämisch, Bogoljubow, Tartakower, Marshall, Rabinovich, Grünfeld, Nimzowitsch, Torre, Reti, Treybal, Spielmann, Yates, Tarrasch, Colle, Mieses and others.... . 21 participants, 20 rounds, 210 games! The games will be annofritzed with Junior 5.

• ny1924.zip The famous Grandmaster Tournament of 1924 in New York! On top the World Champions Em. Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, followed by Marshall, Reti, Maroczy, Bogoljubow, Tartakower, Yates, Ed. Lasker and Janowski. Sorry, Fritzens 5 sec/move annotations will not be of the same quality as Alekhines famous tournament book! Hanon W. Russell from Chess cafe collected some interesting background details about that tournament. See http://www.chesscafe.com/text/ny1924a.txt and http://www.chesscafe.com/text/ny1924b.txt and also a letter of Alekhine concerning that tournament in http://www.chesscafe.com/text/aleklet.txt.

• peters.zip The famous St. Petersburg 1914 tournament, with all the classic chess giants! Zip-File includes also annofritzed games in PGN-Format!

• karl1911.zip The Karlsbad 1911 tournament was probably the biggest top class round robin tournament in the history of chess. It had 26 participants, 25 rounds, 325 games! At the end Richard Teichmann was the winner, followed by top players like Rubinstein, Schlechter, Rotlewi, Marshall, Nimzowitsch, Vidmar, Tartakower, Alekhine, Spielmann and many others. See a recent column of Richard Forster at Chess Cafe about this tournament!

• ss1911.zip The San Sebastian 1911 tournament! Annofritzed with 30sec/move by Ignacio Derecho. Thanks for this contribution! Capablanca won that tournament, Rubinstein and Vidmar shared 2nd place, followed by Marshall, Tarrasch, Schlechter, Nimzowitsch, Bernstein, Spielmann, Teichmann, Maroczy, Janowsky, Burn, Duras and Leonhardt.

• karl07.zip The Karlsbad 1907 tournament! Akiba Rubinstein had here one of the greatest victories of his career; followed by Maroczy, Leonhardt, Vidmar, Nimzowitsch, Marshall, Tartakower and among many others also Mikhail Chigorin in one of his last big tournaments. 20 players, 19 rounds, 189 games! (06/Sep/99)

• ost1907.zip Ostende 1907 was a quadruple round robin elite tournament with just six top players of those days: Siegbert Tarrasch won with a score of 12.5/20, followed by Schlechter, Marshall, Janowsky, Burn and Chigorin. (13/Oct/1999)

• rice1904.zip 95 years ago the Monte Carlo "Rice" thematic tournament was devoted to the Kings Gambit (C39). Swiderski was winning ahead of Marshall, followed by Mieses and Marco. Enjoy some outstanding fights evolving from 2. f4! Annofritzed with 30sec/move by Ignacio Derecho. Thanks for this nice contribution!

• cams1904.zip The great Cambridge Springs 1904 tournament was one of the top events early this century. US-Boy Frank Marshall won with a formidable score of 13/15, followed by WC Em. Lasker, Janowsky, Marco, Showalter, Mieses, Schlecher, Pillsbury, Fox, Teichmann, Chigorin and others.

• lond1899.zip Hundred years ago the double round robin tournament in London 1899 was the mega-event of the year. 15 participants (14 in the second round since Teichmann withdrew after half of the tournament), thus 27 rounds, 196 games! And WC Emanuel Lasker won with a fabulous score of 22.5/27 (+19 -1, =7). The second place shared Pillsbury, Maroczy and Janowsky. Their score of 18/27 is 4.5 points(!) behind the winner. This difference between first and second is probably world record for a top class tournament. Poor Steinitz ended in his last appearance at a big tournament only eleventh, outplayed by Schlechter, Chigorin, Showalter, Mason and W. Cohn.

• hast1895.zip The great 1895 Hastings tournament! Pillsbury was first, followed by Chigorin, Em. Lasker, Tarrasch and Steinitz. See the fantastic win of Wilhelm Steinitz against Curt Von Bardeleben in a furioso final of a "guico pianissimo". All 4 white pieces (except the pawns and the king, of course!) were en prise and de facto undefended(!) for several moves, It looks like a David Copperfield magic trick when Black can't escape the undefended white rook giving checks from the 7th rank to the black king immediately in front of him on the 8th. It is said that embarrassed Von Bardeleben left after move 25 the table and the tournament hall without saying a word... Anyway: This is one of the most remarkable games of the 19th century in one of the greatest tournaments of that century!

• mcdlab.zip The 86 games of the monumental match between Louis De Labourdonnais and Alexander McDonnell (London, 1834), annofritzed by Ivo Fasiori from Prato (Italy). Thanks!

• wc1.zip World Championship matches, Part 1 from Steinitz - Zukertort 1886 until 1974, including candidates matches, interzonal tournaments, womens World Championships etc. (+1700 games!)

• wc2.zip World Championship matches, Part 2. From 1975 to the Karpov-Anand match 1998, including candidates matches, interzonal tournaments, womens World Championships etc. (+1800 games!)

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