GENEVA-GENEVE

Major city of Switzerland on the bank of the Lake Leman. The city hosts a yearly Open since 1986 but the Geneva chess history starts many year before with  simultaneous displays of Alexander Alekhine in 1925, 1928 and 1933 and later the Candidate’s match Boris Spassky-Lajos Portisch 8½-6½ in 1977.

The winners of Geneva International were: 1977 Bent Larsen, 1988 Ognjen Cvitan, 1990 (O) Eduard Rozentalis, 1990 Daniel King, 1991 (O) Aleksa Strikovic, 1992 (O) Alexander Shabalov, 1993 (O) Vladimr Epishin, 1993 Zigurds Lanka, 1994 (O) Igor Khenkin, 1996 (O) Igor Khenkin, 1996 PCA Rapid Chess Vishy Anand, 1999 (O) Alexander Goldin, 2000 (O) Alexander Nenashev, 2001 (O) Semen Dvoyris, 2004 (O) Evgenij Alekseev, 2005 (O) Vladimir Epishin and Andrei Shchekachev, 2007 (O) Christian Bauer, (RR) Igor Khenkin, 2008 (O) Hicham Hamdouchi 2009 (O) Igor Khenkin, 2010 (O) Etienne Bacrot, 2011 (O) Daniel Campora, 2012 (O) Etienne Bacrot, 2013 Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, 2014 (O) Christian Bauer, 2015 (O) Oleg Korneev.