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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.

Contents
St. Petersburg 1909
1947-1972
Sochi period (1963-1990)
Back to St. Petersburg (1993-present)
Mikhail Chigorin shortly before his
References death in 1908
External links

St. Petersburg 1909

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.

Photo from the first Chigorian Memorial Tournament, 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 (Russian Empire)/ 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 (Austria-Hungary)/ Austria 0 ½ * 1 0 1 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 11

4 Oldřich Duras (Austria-Hungary)/ 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)/ Ukraine 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 (Austria-Hungary)/ Poland 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 (Austria-Hungary)/ Austria 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 * 1 0 0 1 1 ½ 0 1 ½ 1 9

10 Gersz Salwe (Russian Empire)/ Poland 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 1 0 * ½ 1 1 1 ½ 0 1 1 1 9

Savielly Tartakower (Austria-Hungary)/

11 ½ 0 ½ 1 0 ½ ½ 0 1 ½ * 0 0 0 ½ 1 1 1 ½ 8½
Poland

12 Jacques Mieses (German Empire) 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 ½ 1 0 1 * ½ 1 1 1 0 1 1 8½

Fyodor Duz-Khotimirsky (Russian Empire)/

13 1 1 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 0 1 ½ * ½ ½ ½ 1 0 1 8
Ukraine

14 Leo Forgács (Austria-Hungary)/ Hungary 0 0 1 0 1 ½ ½ 1 0 0 1 0 ½ * ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 7½

15 Amos Burn (England) ½ 0 ½ 0 1 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ * 1 ½ ½ 0 7

16 Milan Vidmar (Austria-Hungary)/ Slovenia 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
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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)

# Year Winner City
1 1963 Lev Polugaevsky Sochi
2 1964 Nikolai Krogius Sochi
Wolfgang Unzicker
3 1965 Sochi
Boris Spassky
4 1966 Viktor Korchnoi Sochi
Alexander Zaitsev
Vladimir Simagin
5 1967 Nikolai Krogius Sochi
Leonid Shamkovich
Boris Spassky
6 1973 Mikhail Tal Sochi
7 1974 Lev Polugaevsky Sochi
Lev Polugaevsky
8 1976 Sochi
Evgeny Sveshnikov
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
Anatoly Vaisser
14 1983 Sochi
Evgeny Sveshnikov
15 1984 Georgy Agzamov Sochi
16 1985 Evgeny Sveshnikov Sochi
Svetozar Gligorić
17 1986 Alexander Beliavsky Sochi
Rafael Vaganian
Sergey Smagin
18 1987 Evgeny Pigusov Sochi
Andrei Kharitonov
19 1988 Sergey Dolmatov Sochi
20 1989 Alexey Vyzmanavin Sochi
21 1990 Vadim Ruban Sochi

Back to St. Petersburg (1993-present)

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.

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# Year Winner
1 1993 Alexey Dreev
2 1994 Ildar Ibragimov
3 1995 Vladimir Burmakin
Alexei Fedorov
4 1996
Lembit Oll
5 1997 Konstantin Sakaev
6 1998 Sergey Volkov
Alexander Grischuk
7 1999
Sergey Volkov
8 2000 Valerij Filippov
9 2001 Mikhail Kobalia
10 2002 Alexander Fominyh
11 2004 Sergey Ivanov
Igor Zakharevich
12 2005
Roman Ovetchkin
14 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
1. The Saburovs by Edward Winter (http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/saburovs.html)
2. St. Petersburg 1909 and 1914 (http://www.endgame.nl/stpeter.htm) Archived (https://web.archive.org/web/20080618072117/http://www.en
dgame.nl/stpeter.htm) 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
St. Petersburg 1909 and 1914 (https://web.archive.org/web/20080618072117/http://www.endgame.nl/stpeter.htm)
The Independent, 1999, Jon Speelman: Results 1993-1999 (http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19991117/ai_n14262395)
Results from The Week in Chess: TWIC 157 (1997), TWIC 212 (1998) (http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic212.html#9), TWIC 262
(1999) (http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic262.html#4), TWIC 314 (2000) (http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic314.html#17), TWIC
365 (2001) (http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic365.html#11), TWIC 418 (2002) (http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic418.html#4),
TWIC 572 (2005) (http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic572.html#8), TWIC 625 (2006) (http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic625.html#8),
TWIC 683 (2007) (http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic683.html#5), TWIC 730 (2008) (http://www.theweekinchess.com/html/twic730.html
#9), 2009 (http://www.theweekinchess.com/chessnews/events/chigorin-memorial-2009), 2011 (http://www.theweekinchess.com/chessnew
s/events/chigorin-memorial-2011)
Results from ChessBase: 2006 edition (http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=3471), 2010 edition (http://en.chessbase.com/
post/safarli-wins-the-chigorin-memorial-in-st-petersburg)
Results from Ruschess: 2004 edition (https://web.archive.org/web/20080417012746/http://www.ruschess.com/News/2004/Chigorin/st.php)
Results from Rusbase: Editions 1961-1990 (http://al20102007.narod.ru/it.html)
Results from Chess-Results: 2012 (http://chess-results.com/tnr83806.aspx?lan=1&art=1&rd=9&wi=821), 2013 (http://chess-results.com/tn
r112772.aspx?lan=1&art=1&rd=9&wi=821), 2014 (http://chess-results.com/tnr148872.aspx?lan=1&art=1&rd=9&wi=821), 2015 (http://ches
s-results.com/tnr189543.aspx?lan=16&art=1&rd=9&wi=821)

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