WIJK AAN ZEE

Beverwijk, a Dutch city situated between Amsterdam and the North Sea which since 1938 was the venue of a national then international chess festival. In 1968 the Festival moved to the nearby village of Wijk aan Zee.
For more than 60 years the Wijk aan Zee festival was sponsored by the Hoogovens Factory then was renamed Corus Chess Festival in 2000 when the company was sold to Corus, then in 2011 it finally became the Tata Steel Chess Tournament.
By tradition, the festival is organized the last two weeks of January.

The winners were: 

1938 Bakker and van Dijk, 1939 Cortlever, 1940 Euwe, 1941 Wijnans, 1942 Euwe, 1943 Van der Hoek, 1944 Van Scheltinga, 1946 O’Kelly, 1947 Van Scheltinga, 1948 Prins, 1949 Tartakower, 1950 Donner, 1951 Pilnik, 1952 Euwe, 1953 Rossolimo, 1954 Bouwmeester, 1955 Milic, 1956 Stahlberg, 1957 Matanovic, 1958 Euwe and Donner, 1959 Olafsson, 1960 Larsen and Petrosian, 1961 Larsen and Ivkov, 1962 Trifunovic, 1963 Donner, 1964 Keres and Nei, 1965 Portischand Geller, 1966 Polugaevski,  1967 Spassky, 1968 Korchnoi, 1969 Botvinnik and Geller, 1970 Taimanov, 1971 Korchnoi, 1972 Portisch, 1973 Tal, 1974 Browne, 1975 Portisch, 1976 Ljubojevic and Olafsson, 1977 Sosonko & Geller, 1978 Portisch, 1979 Polugaevski, 1980 Seirawan and Browne, 1981 Sosonko & Timman, 1982 Nunn and Balashov, 1983 Andersson, 1984 Korchnoi, 1985 Timman, 1986 Short, 1987 Short and Korchnoi, 1988 Karpov, 1989 Anand, P. Nikolic, Ribli and Sax, 1990 Nunn, 1991 Nunn, 1992 Salov and Gelfand, 1993  Karpov, 1994 P. Nikolic, 1995 Dreev, 1996 Ivanchuk, 1997 Salov, 1998 Anand and Kramnik, 1999 Kasparov, 2000 Kasparov, 2001 Kasparov, 2002 Bareev, 2003 Anand, 2004 Anand, 2005 Leko, 2006 Anand and Topalov, 2007 Aronian, Topalov and Radjabov, 2008 Aronian, Carlsen, 2009 Karjakin, 2010 Carlsen, 2011 Nakamura, 2012 Aronian, 2013 Carlsen, 2014 Aronian, 2015 Carlsen, 2016 Carlsen, 2017 So, 2018 Carlsen, 2019 Carlsen, 2020 Caruana.