NAJDORF MAGISTRAL (Memorial)

A tournament held in Buenos Aires co-sponsored by the Najdorf Chess Foundation, becoming a memorial after the death of Miguel Najdorf in 1997.

Poster in 2001

The winners were: 1991 Granda Zuniga, Mihail Tal and Jesus Nogueiras, 1993 Gata Kamsky and Alexey Shirov, 1995 Pablo San Segundo and Loek Van Wely, 1996 Jordi Magem Badals and Sergey Tiviakov, 1997 Ivan Morovic and Emil Sutovski, 1998 Mikhail Krasenkow, Aleksander Wojkiewicz, Ricardi, Garcia Palermo and Bent Larsen, 1999 Marcelo Tempone, 2000 Judith Polgar, 2001 Anatoly Karpov, 2002 Hugo Spangenberg, 2003 Anatoly Karpov beat a selection of Argentine players 5-1, 2004 Diego Flores, 2010 Ernesto Real De Azua. Since 2002 a Memorial tournament is also organized in Warsaw (Poland) sponsored by the Warsaw Chess Foundation. The last winners were: 2007 Bartlomiej Macieja, 2008 Krishnan Sasikiran, 2009 Radoslaw Wojtaszek, 2010 Julian Radulsky, 2011 Tomasz Markowski.