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This article depicts many of the strongest chess tournaments in history. The following list is not intended to be an exhaustive or definitive record of tournament chess, but takes as its foundation the collective opinion of chess experts and journalists over the strongest tournaments in history.
The USSR team that participated in the 13th Olympiad (Munich 1958) had been claimed [who?] as the strongest team ever. It was composed of four world champions ( Mikhail Botvinnik , Vasily Smyslov , Mikhail Tal and Tigran Petrosian ), one world championship challenger ( David Bronstein ) and Paul Keres , four times runner-up in the Candidates ...
The second international Vienna 1882 chess tournament was one of the longest and strongest chess tournaments ever played. [1] According to the unofficial Chessmetrics ratings, the tournament was (as of March 2005) the strongest tournament in history, on the basis that nine of the ten top players in the world participated, including all of the top eight.
Organized by the USSR Chess Federation, it was the strongest national chess championship ever held, with eight world chess champions and four world championship finalists among its winners. It was held as a round-robin tournament with the exception of the 35th and 58th championships, which were of the Swiss system.
The Nottingham 1936 chess tournament was a 15-player round robin tournament held August 10–28 at the University of Nottingham.It was one of the strongest of all time.. Dr. J. Hannak wrote in his 1959 biography of Emanuel Lasker that "when it comes to awarding the plum for 'the greatest chess tournament ever', in 1936, the Nottingham Tournament was certainly just that". [1]
The Baden-Baden 1870 chess tournament was one of the strongest chess tournaments ever at the time. The tournament lasted from 18 July until 4 August 1870, in Baden-Baden . It was won by Adolf Anderssen , ahead of Wilhelm Steinitz .
Teenager Gukesh Dommaraju became the youngest-ever undisputed classical chess world champion after beating Ding Liren 7.5-6.5 in their best-of-14 final in Singapore on Thursday.
The Hastings 1895 chess tournament was a round-robin tournament of chess conducted at the Brassey Institute in Hastings, England from 5 August to 2 September 1895. Hastings 1895 was arguably the strongest tournament in history at the time it occurred. [1] [2] All of the top players of the generation competed. It was one of the first times such ...