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City of Germany where grandmaster tournaments then super grandmaster tournaments are organized yearly since 1973. However, the first ‘grandmaster’ event in the city was already setup in 1928 with the victory of the German Master Friedrich Sämisch ahead of Richard Reti and Paul Johner. The Belgian Master Alberic O’Kelly triumphed in 1951 and Mark Taimanov succeeded in 1961. Since 1973 the tournament became permanent.
The winners were: 1973 Heikki Westerinen, 1974 Laszlo Szabo, Victor Ciocaltea, 1975 Heikki Westerinen, 1976 Oleg Romanishin, 1977 1.-2. Jan Smejkal, Alexander Kochyev, 1978 Ulf Andersson, 1979 Tamaz Georgadze, 1980 Raymond Keene, 1981 1-3. Gennadi Kuzmin, John Spielman, Lubomir Ftacnik, 1982 Hort, 1983 Mikail Suba, 1984 Yehuda Grünfeld, 1985 1.-3. Gennadi Razuvaev, Kindermann, Vlastimil Hort, 1986 Zoltan Ribli, 1987 Yuri Balashov, 1988 Lputian, 1989 Efraim Geller, 1990 Alexander Chernin, 1991 1.-2. Igor Stohl, Alexander Chernin, 1992 1.-2. Garry Kasparov, Vassily Ivanchuk, 1993 Anatoly Karpov, 1994 Jeroen Piket, 1995 Vladimir Kramnik, 1996 Vladimir Kramnik, 1997 Vladimir Kramnik, 1998 1.-3. Vladimir Kramnik, Michael Adams, Peter Svidler, 1999 Peter Leko, 2000 1.-2. Vladimir Kramnik, Vishy Anand, 2001 1.-2. Vladimir Kramnik, Veselin Topalov, 2002 Peter Leko (Braingame Candidates), 2003 Viktor Bologan, 2004. Vishy Anand, 2005 Arkadij Naiditsch, 2006 Vladimir Kramnik, 2007 Vladimir Kramnik, 2008 Peter Leko, 2009 Vladimir Kramnik, 2010 Ruslan Ponomariov, 2011 Vladimir Kramnik, 2012 Fabiano Caruana and Sergey Karjakin, 2013 Michael Adams, 2014 Fabiano Caruana, 2015 Fabiano Caruana, 2016 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, 2017 Radoslaw Wojtaszek, 2018 Ian Nepomniachtchi, 2019 Ian Nepomniachtchi.
The participants in 2016
