IBM international chess tournament

Albin Planinc (left) vs. Boris Spassky in 1973

The IBM international chess tournament was a series of very strong chess tournaments held in the Amsterdam, 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.

IBM 1966: Mikhail Botvinnik

IBM 1977: Tony Miles

#	Year	Winner
1	1961	Christian Langeweg (Netherlands)
2	1962	Moshe Czerniak (Israel) Hiong Liong Tan (Indonesia)
3	1963	Lajos Portisch (Hungary)
4	1964	Bent Larsen (Denmark)
5	1965	Jan Hein Donner (Netherlands)
6	1966	Mikhail Botvinnik (USSR)
7	1967	Lajos Portisch (Hungary)
8	1968	Lubomir Kavalek (Czechoslovakia)
9	1969	Lajos Portisch (Hungary)
10	1970	Boris Spassky (USSR) Lev Polugaevsky (USSR)
11	1971	Vasily Smyslov (USSR)
12	1972	Lev Polugaevsky (USSR)
13	1973	Tigran Petrosian (USSR) Albin Planinc (Yugoslavia)
14	1974	Vlastimil Jansa (Czechoslovakia) Vladimir Tukmakov (USSR) Borislav Ivkov (Yugoslavia)
15	1975	Ljubomir Ljubojević (Yugoslavia)
16	1976	Viktor Korchnoi (Switzerland) Tony Miles (England)
17	1977	Tony Miles (England)
18	1978	Jan Timman (Netherlands)
19	1979	Vlastimil Hort (Czechoslovakia) Gyula Sax (Hungary)
20	1980	Anatoly Karpov (USSR)
21	1981	Jan Timman (Netherlands)

See also

• List of strong chess tournaments
• AVRO 1938 chess tournament
• Max Euwe Memorial Tournament

External links

• Schaaksite (in Dutch)