OBERWART

A city in Austria which has hosted an annual chess festival since 1979. The winners were: 1979 Ferenc Portisch, 1980, Ivan Hausner, 1981  Ivan Nemet, 1982 Gyozo V. Forintos, 1983 Goran Dizdar, 1984 Bojan Kurajica, 1985 Juraj Nikolac, 1986 Eckhardt Schmittdiel, 1987 Karel Mokry, 1988 Bogdan Lalic, 1989 Juraj Nikolac, 1991 Milan Vukic, 1992 Semen I. Dvoirys, 1993 Igor V. Glek, 1994 Konstantin Landa, 1995 Konstantin Z. Lerner, 1996 Matthew Sadler, 1997 Alexander Vaulin, 1998 Vereslav S. Eingorn, 1999 Mikhail Ulibin, 2000 Andrey Shariyazdanov, 2001 Vereslav S. Eingorn, 2002 Alexey Kuzmin, 2003 Andrey Shariyazdanov, 2004 GM Semen I. Dvoirys, 2005 Thomas Luther, 2006 Davit Shengelia, 2007 Imre Hera, 2008 Krisztian Szabo, 2009 Davit Shenglia, 2010 Aleksandr Shimanov, 2011 Imre Hera.