LONDON

The capital of England. London was the venue of the first chess tournament of 1851, the Olympiad of 1927, Lloyds Banks, Phillips & Drew, London GLC, Watson Farley & Williams, USSR-Rest of the World in 1984, the World Championship (part 1) Kasparov-Karpov in 1986, Candidates Semifinals Korchnoi-Kasparov and Ribli-Smyslov in 1983, Speelman-Short in 1989 and 1991, Pilkington Candidates Semifinals Karpov-Yusupov and Timman-Speelman in 1989 , the ‘Times World Championship’ Kasparov-Short in 1993, the Brain Games Network World Championship Kasparov-Kramnik Match in 2000, the Staunton Memorial (SM), the Candidates’ Tournament 2013 (CT), London FIDE Grand Prix 2014 and the recent London Chess Classic festival (LCC) organized by Malcolm Pein since 2009.

Major tournament results: 1851 Adolf Anderssen, 1862 Adolf Anderssen, 1872 Wilhelm Steinitz, 1876, 1883 Johannes Zukertort, 1886 Johannes Zukertort and Henry Bird, 1887 Henry Bird, 1888 Isidor Gunsberg, 1899 Emanuel Lasker, 1900 Richard Teichmann, 1907 Atkins, 1922 José Raúl Capablanca, 1927 Aron Nimzowitsch and Savielly Tartakower, 1932 Alexander Alekhine, 1946 Herman Steiner, 1980 Anthony Miles, Ulf Andersson and Viktor Korchnoi, 1982 Ulf Andersson and Anatoly Karpov, 1984 Anatoly Karpov, 1985 Jon Speelman, 1986 Glenn Flear, 1989 Bent Larsen, 1990 Bent Larsen, 1991 Alexander Khalifman, 2003 Jon Speelman, 2004 Daniel King, 2005 Jonathan Levitt, 2006 Ivan Sokolov, 2007 Michael Adams, 2008 Michael Adams, 2009 Jan Timman (SM), 2009 Magnus Carlsen (LCC), 2010 Magnus Carlsen (LCC), 2011 Vladimir Kramnik (LCC), 2012, Magnus Carlsen (LCC), 2013 Magnus Carlsen (CT), 2013 Hiraku Nakamura (LCC), 2014 Viswanathan Anand (LCC), 2015 Magnus Carlsen (LCC), 2016 Wesley So (LCC), 2017 Fabio Caruana (LCC), 2018 Hiraku Nakamura (LCC), 2019 Ding Lieren (LCC).