PARIS

The capital of France. The city has hosted several great matches and important international events since 1834. The early matches of La Bourdonnais at the Café de la Regence in 1834 against Szén in 1836 followed by the match of Saint Amant in 1842 and his match against Staunton in 1843, the royal visit of Morphy and his match vs. Harrwitz in 1858 and vs. Mongredien in 1859, as well the matches of Anderssen in 1858 and 1860 and the match and World Championship Match won by EmanuelvLasker against David Janowski in 1909 and 1910. If international tournaments started to be organised from 1867, we may consider the next two as the most important: the 1900 tournament organised together with the Universal Exhibition of Paris, the 1924 which saw the foundation of FIDE and the first national team tournament, and later, the Rapid Chess tournaments with the Immopar Trophy, the PCA Grand Prix or the Senat Grand Prix and the mass tournaments with the annual Paris Championship which is with the national championship the longest running tournament.

Paris 1924

The winners of the tournaments were: 1867 von Kolisch, 1878 Zukertort (after a test match with Winawer), 1881 Rosenthal, 1890 Goetz 1900 Em. Lasker, 1924 Mattison and Czechoslovakia, 1925 Alekhine, 1929 Tartakower, 1929 Tartakower, 1930 Gromer, 1933 Alekhine, 1935 Rossolimo, 1937 Capblanca, 1938 Capablanca, 1964 Sabo, 1967 Todorcevic, 1983 Plasket, 1984 Korchnoi, 1991 (Rapid) Timman, 1992 (Rapid) Kasparov, 1995 (Rapid) Kasparov, 2000 (Rapid) Shirov, 2001 (Rapid) Fressinet.

The winners of the Championship of Paris were: 1925 Baratz, 1926 Schwarzmann, 1927 Baratz, 1928 Baratz, 1929 Drezga, 1930 Zukermann, 1931 Znosko Borovsky 1932 Blum, 1933 Alekhine, 1934 Rossolimo, 1936/37 Rossolimo, 1938 Raizmann, 1939 Rossolimo, 1942 Crépaux, 1943 Schoen, 1944/45 Bouteville, 1946 Bouteville, 1947 Rossolimo, 1948 Rossolimo, 1949 Rossolimo, 1950 Planté, 1951 Popel, 1952 Bouteville, 1953 Popel, 1954 Popel, 1955 Rolland, 1956 Simonovic, 1957 Ratner, 1958 Mazzoni, 1959 Linais, 1961 Bouteville, 1962 Molnar, 1963 Molnar, 1964 Molnar, 1965 Ducic, 1966 Todorcevic, 1967 Todorcevic, 1968 Jean, 1969 Huget, 1970 Cormier, 1971 Obradovic, 1972 Boutteville, 1973 Todorcevic, 1974 Todorcevic, 1975 Macles, 1976 Todorcevic, 1977 Nora, 1978 Lecuyer, 1979 Villeneuve, 1980 Zilber (Giffard champion), 1982 Prie, 1983 Prie, 1984 Renet, 1985 Belkhodja, 1986 Doghri, 1987 Macles, 1988 Gutman (Sellos champion), 1989 Spraggett, 1990 Pinter and Lobron, 1991 Khenkin, Spraggett and Kharlov, 1992 Moskalenko, 1993 Rublevsky, 1994 Rotstein and Goldin, 1995 Minasian, 1996 Schekachev, 1997, 1998 Smirin and Avrukh, 1999 Relange ,2000 Savchenko, 2001 Bauer, 2002 Afek, 2003 David, 2004 Degraeve, 2005 David, 2006 Kazhgaleyev, 2007 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, 2008 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, 2009 Murtas Kazhgaleyev, 2010 Sebastien Feller, 2011 Arun Prasad, 2012 Sergey Fedorchuk, 2013 Adrien Demuth, 2014 Sergey Fedorchuk, 2015 S.P. Sethuraman, 2016 Jules Moussard, 2017 Bilel Bellahcene, 2018 Jules Moussard, 2019 Jules Moussard.

Champion of Paris A title given to the best French player of the Paris Championship living in the Isle de France. 1989 Christophe Bernard, 1990 Manuel Apicella, 1991 Jacques Elbia, 1992 Eric Prie, 1993 Laurent Verat, 1994 Jacques Demarre, 1995 Olivier Renet, 1996 Eric Prie, 1997 Eloi Relange, 1998 Eloi Relange, 1999 Eloi Relange, 2000 Joël Lautier, 2001 Laurent Fressinet, 2002 Laurent Fressinet, 2003 Thal Abergel, 2004, 2005 Laurent Fressinet, 2006 Laurent Fressinet, 2007 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. 2008 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, 2010 Sebastien Feller, 2011 Christophe Sochacki, 2012 Sergey Fedorchuk, 2013 Adrien Demuth, 2014 Sergey Fedorchuk,2015 Olivier Renet, 2016 Alain Sauvetre, 2017 Borya Ider, 2018 Jules Moussard, 2019 Jules Moussard.