Tuesday, February 22, 2005

Complete History of the Linares Chess Tournament (1978-2004)

2004 (average rating 2731) – 1. Kramnik (7); 2-3. Kasparov, Leko (6.5)
2003 (average rating 2733) – 1-2. Kramnik, Leko (7); 3-4. Kasparov, Anand (6.5)
2002 (average rating 2732) – 1. Kasparov (8); 2. Ponomariov (6.5); 3-5. Anand, Ivanchuk, Adams (6)
2001 (average rating 2722) – 1. Kasparov (7.5); 2-6. Polgar, Karpov, Leko, Shirov, Grischuk (4.5)
2000 (average rating 2752) – 1-2. Kasparov, Kramnik (6); 3-6. Anand, Leko, Khalifman, Shirov (4.5)
1999 (average rating 2735) – 1. Kasparov (9.5); 2. Kramnik (7); 3. Anand (6.5)
1998 (average rating 2752) – 1. Anand (7.5); 2. Shirov (7); 3-4. Kasparov, Kramnik (6.5)
1997 (average rating 2701) – 1. Kasparov (8.5); 2. Kramnik (7.5); 3-4. Topalov, Adams (6.5)
1995 (average rating 2654) – 1. Ivanchuk (10); 2. Karpov (9); 3-4. Shirov, Topalov (8)
1994 (average rating 2685) – 1. Karpov (11); 2-3. Kasparov, Shirov (8.5)
1993 (average rating 2676) – 1. Kasparov (10); 2-3. Karpov, Anand (8.5)
1992 (average rating 2658) – 1. Kasparov (10); 2-3. Ivanchuk, Timman (8)
1991 (average rating 2658) – 1. Ivanchuk (9.5); 2. Kasparov (9); 3. Beliavsky (8)
1990 (average rating 2630) – 1. Kasparov (8); 2. Gelfand (7.5); 3. Salov (7)
1989 (average rating 2628) – 1. Ivanchuk (7.5); 2. Karpov (7); 3. Ljubojevic (6)
1988 (average rating 2603) - 1. Timman (8.5); 2. Beliavsky (7); 3. Yusupov (6.5)
1985 (average rating 2595) - 1-2. Ljubojevic, Huebner (7); 3-4. Portisch, Kortchnoi (6.5)
1983 (average rating 2598) - 1. Spassky (6.5); 2-3. Karpov, Andersson (6)
1981 (average rating 2568) - 1-2. Karpov, Christiansen (8); 3. Larsen (7)
1979 - 1. Christiansen (8); 2-4. Kortchnoi, Rivas, Castro (7.5)
1978 - 1-2. Eslon, Debarnot (6); 3. Ochoa de Echaguen (5.5)

Click here for a website dedicated to the Linares chess tournaments complete with all the tournament cross tables and a PGN file of all the games. Also ChessBase has a webpage dedicated to the Linares tournament here.

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