Reykjavik Open

The Reykjavik Open is an annual chess tournament that takes place in the capital city of Iceland. It was held every two years up to 2008, currently it runs annually. The first edition was held in 1964 and was won by Mikhail Tal with a score of 12.5 points out of 13.[1] The tournament is currently played with the Swiss system, while from 1964 to 1980 and in 1992 it was a round-robin tournament.

The 2013 edition was voted the second best open tournament of the year in the world by the Association of Chess Professionals, behind Gibraltar Chess Festival.[2]

Winners

All players finishing equal first are listed; the winner after tiebreaks is listed first.

blue: Round-robin tournament
# Year Winner(s)
11964 Mikhail Tal (Soviet Union)
21966 Friðrik Ólafsson (Iceland)
31968 Evgeny Vasiukov (Soviet Union),  Mark Taimanov (Soviet Union)
41970 Guðmundur Sigurjónsson (Iceland)
51972 Friðrik Ólafsson (Iceland),  Florin Gheorghiu (Romania),  Vlastimil Hort (Czechoslovakia)
61974 Vassily Smyslov (Soviet Union)
71976 Friðrik Ólafsson (Iceland),  Jan Timman (Netherlands)
81978 Walter Browne (United States)
91980 Viktor Kupreichik (Soviet Union)
101982 Lev Alburt (United States)
111984 Jóhann Hjartarson (Iceland),  Helgi Ólafsson (Iceland),  Samuel Reshevsky (United States)
121986 Predrag Nikolić (Yugoslavia)
131988 Jón Árnason (Iceland)
141990 Helgi Ólafsson (Iceland),  Jón Árnason (Iceland),  Sergey Dolmatov (Soviet Union),
 Lev Polugaevsky (Soviet Union),  Rafael Vaganian (Soviet Union),  Yasser Seirawan (United States),
 Nick de Firmian (United States),  Yuri Razuvaev (Soviet Union),  Erling Mortensen (Norway)
151992 Jóhann Hjartarson (Iceland),  Alexei Shirov (Latvia)
161994 Hannes Stefánsson (Iceland),  Vadim Zvjaginsev (Russia),  Evgeny Pigusov (Russia)
171996 Simen Agdestein (Norway),  Predrag Nikolić (Bosnia and Herzegovina),  Jonathan Tisdall (Norway)
181998 Larry Christiansen (United States)
192000 Hannes Stefánsson (Iceland)
202002 Jaan Ehlvest (Estonia),  Oleg Korneev (Russia)
212004 Alexei Dreev (Russia),  Vladimir Epishin (Russia),  Emil Sutovsky (Israel) ,
 Jan Timman (Netherlands),  Levon Aronian (Germany),[3]  Igor-Alexandre Nataf (France),
 Jaan Ehlvest (Estonia),  Robert Markuš (Serbia and Montenegro)
222006 Gabriel Sargissian (Armenia),  Ahmed Adly (Egypt),  Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan),
 Igor-Alexandre Nataf (France),  Pentala Harikrishna (India)
232008 Wang Hao (China),  Hannes Stefánsson (Iceland),  Wang Yue (China)
242009 Héðinn Steingrímsson (Iceland),  Yuriy Kryvoruchko (Ukraine),  Hannes Stefánsson (Iceland)
252010 Ivan Sokolov (Bosnia and Herzegovina),  Yuri Kuzubov (Ukraine),  Abhijeet Gupta (India),
 Hannes Stefánsson (Iceland)
262011 Yuri Kuzubov (Ukraine),  Ivan Sokolov (Netherlands),  Vladimir Baklan (Ukraine),
 Kamil Miton (Poland),  Jon Ludvig Hammer (Norway),  Illia Nyzhnyk (Ukraine)
272012 Fabiano Caruana (Italy)
282013 Pavel Eljanov (Ukraine),  Wesley So (Philippines),  Bassem Amin (Egypt)
292014 Li Chao (China)
302015 Erwin l'Ami (Netherlands)
312016 Abhijeet Gupta (India)
322017 Anish Giri (Netherlands)
332018 Baskaran Adhiban (India)
342019 Constantin Lupulescu (Romania)
352020The 2020 event was cancelled due to the coronavirus epidemic.[4]
372022 Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa (India)[5]
382023 Nils Grandelius (Sweden)[6]

References
  1. "50 years since first Reykjavik Open". reykjavikopen.com. 2014-01-14. Retrieved 2015-08-24.
  2. "London Candidates Tournament of the Year 2013". ACP. 2014-05-02. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
  3. "Reykjavik Open 2004 July 2004 Iceland FIDE Chess Tournament report".
  4. https://www.reykjavikopen.com/cancellation-of-the-2020-reykjavik-open/ Cancellation of the 2020 Reykjavik Open
  5. "Indian GM Praggnanandhaa wins Reykjavik Open chess". Moneycontrol. Retrieved 2022-04-14.
  6. Olafsson, Helgi (2023-04-05). "Grandelius sigurvegari í elleftu tilraun". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic).
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