REGGIO EMILIA

A City in northern Italy which has hosted a traditional chess festival since 1951. One of the ideas of Enrico Paoli, the Torneo di Capodanno has been during the past few decades, the strongest tournament in the country. The peak was in 1991 when for the thirty-fourth tournament, the organizers managed to reach category 19 (an average of 2676), one of the strongest world events at that time won by Vishy Anand ahead of Boris Gelfand and Garry Kasparov. Due to economic reasons the tournament stopped in 2012.

The winners were: 1951 Moshe Czerniak, 1958-59 Otto Marthaler, 1959-60 Cveto Trampuz, 1960-61 Peter Dely, 1961-62 Alberto Giustolisi, 1962-63 Giozo Forintos, 1963-64 Rudolf Reschner, 1964-65 Mario Bertok, 1965-66 Bruno Parma, 1966-67 Victor Ciocaltea, 1967-68 Milan Matulovic, 1968-69 Ladislav Mista, 1969-70 Sergio Mariotti, 1970-71 Bruno Parma, 1971-72 Andrew Soltis, 1972-73 Levente Lengyel, 1973-74 Ljuben Popov, 1974-75 Orestes Rodriguez, 1975-76 1976-77, 1977-78 Laszlo Kovacs, 1978-79 Ralf Hess, 1979-80, 1980-81 Nils Renman, 1981-82 Arne Duer, 1982-83 Nona Gaprindashvili, 1983-84 Karel Mokry, 1984-85 Lajos Portisch, 1985-86 Ulf Anderson, 1986-87 Zoltan Ribli, 1987-88 V. Tukmakov, 1988-89 M. Gurevich, 1989-90 Jan Ehlvest, 1991 Anatoly Karpov, 1991-92 Viswanathan Anand, 1992-93 Rafael Vaganian, 1993-94 Lajos Portisch, 1994-95 Rafael Vaganian, 1995-96 Yuri Razuvaev, 1996-97 Michal Krasenkov, 1997-98 Dimitri Komarov, 1998-99 Evgeniy Solozhenkin, 1999-2000 Leonid Yudasin, 2000-01 Oleg Romanishin, 2001-02 Vladimir Georgiev, 2002-03 Jean-Luc Chabanon, 2003-04 Igor Miladinovic, 2004-05 Aleksander Delchev, 2005-06 Konstantin Landa, 2006-07 Viorel Iordachescu, 2007-08 Sergey Tiviakov, 2008-09 Ni Hua,  2009-10 Gata Kamsky, 2010-11 Vugar Gashimov and 2011-12 Anish Giri.

The players in 2010/2011