KERES MEMORIAL

Traditional Classic Chess Swiss tournament organised in Vancouver, Canada and Tallinn, Estonia since 1976 and annual Rapid Chess tournament or Swiss organised in Tallinn.

The winners in Tallinn or Parnu were: (c: classical, r: rapid) 1977 (c) Tall; 1979 Petrosian; 1983 (c) Vaganian; 1985 (c) Dolmatov; 1987 (c) M. Gurevich; 1989 (c) Ehlvest, Oll and Timoshenko; 1993 (c) Khalifman; 1996 (r) Short; 2000 (r)  Ivanchuk; 2000 (c) Yemelin; 2001 (r) Timman (c) Sakaev; 2002 (r) Gavrikov and Sveshnikov; 2004 (r) Shirov; 2005 (c) Kanep; 2006 (r) Ivanchuk and Karpov; 2006 (c) Rytshagov; 2007 Timoshneko (c); 2008 Malakhov (r); 2008 Yemelin (c); 2009 Dreev (r); 2010 Sepp (c); 2011 Shirov (r), 2012 Shirov (r), 2013 Shirov, 2014 Kovalenko, 2015 Tiviakov, 2016 Kovalenko.

The winners in Vancouver were: 1976 Tarjan; 1977 Watson; 1978 Zuk; 1979 Biyiasas, Grefe and McCormick; 1980  Pupols; 1981  Donaldson and Fasano; 1982  Donaldson and Tangborn; 1983  Donaldson; 1984  Piasetski, Silman, Taylor and Zuk; 1985 Braley, Donaldson and Joyner; 1986 Spraggett; 1987 O’Donnell; 1988 Kuznesov and Spraggett; 1999 Vetemaa; 1990 Berry and Donaldson; 1991 Ftacnik; 1992 Ftacnik; 1993 Stohl; 1994 Berry, Vetemaa and Basanta; 1995 Hallam, Teplitsky and Vetemaa; 1996 Orlov; 1997 Teplitsky; 1998 Spraggett; 1999 Orlov; 2000 Epishin; 2001 Orlov; 2002 Orlov; 2003 Orlov; 2004 Orlov; 2005 Yoos; 2006 Pechisker; 2007 Cheng; 2008 Orlov; 2009 Yoos; 2010 Orlov, 2011 Orlov, 2012 Yoos, 2013 Orlov, 2014 Orlov, 2015 Cao, 2016 Sohal, 2017 Sohal, 2018 Sohal and Kriventsov, 2019 Orlov and Kaufman.