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   1983 - IV Torneo Int. "Ciudad de Linares"









Boris Spassky Anatoly Karpov Ulf Andersson Artur Yusupov Anthony Miles Gyula Sax
FLAG FED FIDE  NAME 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 TOTAL 
01 FRA 2605  GM Boris Spassky ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 6.5/10 
02 RUS 2710  GM Anatoly Karpov ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 6.0/10 
03 SWE 2635  GM Ulf Andersson ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 6.0/10 
04 GER 2565  GM Artur Yusupov ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 0 5.5/10 
05 ENG 2585  GM Anthony Miles ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 1 5.5/10 
06 HUN 2560  GM Gyula Sax ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 1 ½ 1 1 5.5/10 
07 NED 2605  GM Jan Timman 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 1 1 ½ 0 5.0/10 
08 RUS 2575  GM Efim Geller ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 0 0 ½ ½ 1 5.0/10 
09 GER 2585  GM Vlastimil Hort ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 5.0/10 
10 USA 2600  GM Yasser Seirawan 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 3.0/10 
11 DNK 2555  GM Bent Larsen 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 2.0/10 



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Linares Chess Tournament


The annual Linares chess tournament, usually played around the end of February, takes its name from the city of Linares in the Jaén province of Andalusia, Spain, in which it is held. It is sometimes described as the Wimbledon of chess, being one of the strongest annual tournaments held on the chess tour, along with the Wijk aan Zee Corus and Dortmund events.

The event, sponsored by Spanish businessman Luis Rentero, was first held in 1978. At that time it was not an elite event and was won by the relatively unknown Swede, Jaan Eslon (on tie-break from the Argentine Roberto Debarnot). After the following year's event, it was held every other year until 1987 when no tournament took place: that being the year that Linares hosted the Candidates' Final, a match to determine a challenger for Kasparov's world title featuring Anatoly Karpov and Andrei Sokolov. The postponed 1987 event was held over until 1988 and the tournament has since become an annual event, with the exception of 1996, when the Women's World Championship was held.

The 1994 tournament had an average Elo rating of 2685, the highest ever at that time, making it the first Category XVIII tournament ever held. The field, in eventual finishing order, consisted of Karpov, Kasparov, Shirov, Bareev, Kramnik, Lautier, Anand, Kamsky, Topalov, Ivanchuk, Gelfand, Illescas, Judit Polgár, and Beliavsky. Karpov won with an undefeated 11/13. Jeff Sonas considers Karpov's performance the best tournament result in history.

In 1998, the format of the tournament changed from a single round-robin tournament to a seven player double round-robin event (meaning that each participant plays every other participant twice, once with each color).

Rentero is notorious for being a strong opponent of short draws in chess, to the point that in 1991 he offered cash bonuses for playing longer games.

From 2006 through 2008, the first half of the tournament took place in the Mexican city of Morelia. The second half took place in Linares. Consequently the event is sometimes referred to as Morelia - Linares in databases and the like.

In 2009 the event took place entirely in Linares. In 2010 it has been reported that the event will take place in both Linares and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.

 

     Linares Chess Tournament. (26 October 2009). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 4 November 2009, at 11.15, from
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