LAS PALMAS

The capital of Grand Canary in the Canary Isles which hosted the Candidates Quarterfinal Match Bent Larsen- Wolfgang Uhlmann 5½-3½, Interzonal Tournament of 1982 (won by Zoltan Ribli), PCA Candidates Match Viswanathan Anand-Gata Kamsky 6½-4½ in 1995 and very strong tournaments which were organised between 1972 and 1996. The 1996 event won by Garry Kasparov will surely be remembered as one of the strongest tournaments of all times. The winners were of Las Palmas tournaments were: 1972 Portisch, 1973 Stein and Petrosian, 1974 Ljubojevic, 1975 Ljubojevic, 1976 Geller, 1977 Karpov, 1978 Tukmakov, 1980 Geller, 1981 Timman, 1982 Ribli (Interzonal), 1986 Morovic I, 1987 Morovic I and Illescas Corba, 1989 Kudrin, 1991 Korchnoi and Franco, 1992 (Open) Kurajica and Van Wely, 1993 Morovic, 1994 Kamsky, 1995 Morovic, 1996 Kasparov and (Open) Gulko, 1999 De Firmian, 2003 Azarov, 2005 Kurajica, 2006 Vega Gutierrez, 2007 Lezcano Jaen, 2008 Fernandez Romero, 2009 Kurajica, 2010 Kurajica.