VIENNA

The capital historical city of Austria. One of the main world chess centres at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. The events of 1898, 1908 and 1922 are considered as world class tournaments.
The first international Open in Vienna was organized in 1976 and since that time it is  organized in an irregular cycle. Since 2009 under the directorship of Johann Poecksteiner, the tournament becomes one of the biggest open tournaments in Europe with 600 to almost 900 players from more than 50 countries.

The winners of the Vienna chess tournaments were: 1873 Steinitz, 1882 Winawer and Steinitz, 1890 Weiss, 1893 Marco, 1896 Janowsky, 1897 Schlechter, 1898 Tarrasch and Pillsburry, 1889/1900 Maroczy, 1901 Schlechter, 1903, 1908 1-3 Duras, Maroczy and Schlechter, 1913 Spielmann, 1920 Reti, 1921 Saemich, 1922 Rubinstein, 1928 Reti, 1937 Keres, 1947 V Szabo, 1950 Paoli, 1951 Pilnik, 1959 , Uhlmann, 1976 Govedarica, 1977 Hartmann, 1980 Nicevski, 1982 Gligoric, 1984 Franco, 1986 Gutman, 1988 Lukacs, 1989 Oll, 1990 Wojtkiewicz, 1991 Lobron, 1994 Kindermann, 1995 Loginov, 1998 Glek,  2003 Dizdarevic, 2006 Guliyev, 2009 Shoker, 2011 Petrov, 2013 Novikov, 2015 Rambaldi, 2016 Ragger, 2019 Valsecchi.