IBM international chess tournament

The IBM international chess tournament was a series of very strong chess tournaments held in the Amsterdam, The Netherlands from 1961 to 1981, and was sponsored by IBM. The list of winners of the main group includes five world champions.

Parallel there was quite often a tournament IBM-B, always with (future or former) strong grandmasters - and local Dutch players to play against foreign titleholders, apart from the major "A" section. By 1963, there were 120 participants in the IBM Amsterdam tournament, broken down to grandmaster group, master group, reserve master group, etc. It was a real festival, connected with the idea to promote (chess) programming by sponsor IBM.

Albin Planinc (left) vs. Boris Spassky in 1973
IBM 1966: Mikhail Botvinnik
IBM 1977: Tony Miles
# Year Winner
11961  Kick Langeweg (Netherlands)
21962  Moshe Czerniak (Israel)
 Hiong Liong Tan (Indonesia)
31963  Lajos Portisch (Hungary)
41964  Bent Larsen (Denmark)
51965  Jan Hein Donner (Netherlands)
61966  Mikhail Botvinnik (USSR)
71967  Lajos Portisch (Hungary)
81968  Lubomir Kavalek (Czechoslovakia)
91969  Lajos Portisch (Hungary)
101970  Boris Spassky (USSR)
 Lev Polugaevsky (USSR)
111971  Vasily Smyslov (USSR)
121972  Lev Polugaevsky (USSR)
131973  Tigran Petrosian (USSR)
 Albin Planinc (Yugoslavia)
141974  Vlastimil Jansa (Czechoslovakia)
 Vladimir Tukmakov (USSR)
 Borislav Ivkov (Yugoslavia)
151975  Ljubomir Ljubojević (Yugoslavia)
161976  Viktor Korchnoi (Switzerland)
 Tony Miles (England)
171977  Tony Miles (England)
181978  Jan Timman (Netherlands)
191979  Vlastimil Hort (Czechoslovakia)
 Gyula Sax (Hungary)
201980  Anatoly Karpov (USSR)
211981  Jan Timman (Netherlands)

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