Konex chess tournament

The first Konex Master Chess Tournament organized by the founder and president of the Konex Foundation, Luis Ovsejevich, started off in Buenos Aires in 1977. The foundation sponsored Marcelo Tempone, World Chess Champion Junior, for further training and so as to participate in international tournaments (1979-1980), the Argentine Team to the Olympiads for players under 26, held at Mexico City 1980, the Argentine Chess Team, to the First World Chess Championship for Teams, held in Lucerne, Switzerland, in 1985, Hugo Spangenberg (13 years old) in the Infant World Chess Championship, at Puerto Rico 1989, and the participation of the Argentine and South American (Female) Champion Claudia Amura in the Inter-Zone Chess Tournament in Moscow, Russia, in 1990.^[1]

Konex Master Chess Tournament

#	Year	Winner
1	1977 (national, closed)	Raúl Sanguineti (Argentina)
2	1979	Viktor Korchnoi (Switzerland) Ljubomir Ljubojević (Yugoslavia)
3	1980 (Open tournament)	Jorge Szmetan (Argentina), clear first
4	1985 (Zonal)	Miguel Quinteros (Argentina) Iván Morovic (Chile)
5	1987	Mikhail Tal (Soviet Union)
6	1988	Gilberto Milos (Brazil) Zenon Franco (Paraguay)
7	1991 (Open tournament)	Pablo Ricardi (Argentina), first on tie-break
8	1994 (Open tournament)	Pablo Zarnicki (Argentina), first on tie-break

References

↑ http://www.fundacionkonex.com.ar/ingles/fundacion_konex/actividades_deporte.asp

Major recurring international chess tournaments

Major present	Bilbao Chess Masters Final Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting London Chess Classic Norway Chess Shamkir Chess Sinquefield Cup Tal Memorial Tata Steel Chess Tournament Zurich Chess Challenge

Other present	Aeroflot Open Australasian Masters Biel Chess Festival Canadian Open Chess Championship Capablanca Memorial Cappelle-la-Grande Open Carlos Torre Repetto Memorial Chigorin Memorial Doeberl Cup Gibraltar Chess Festival Hastings International Chess Congress Lublin Grandmaster Tournament Millionaire Chess Paul Keres Memorial Tournament Qatar Masters Open Reykjavik Open Rubinstein Memorial South African Open U.S. Open Chess Championship Vidmar Memorial Vlissingen chess tournament World Open Xtracon Chess Open Zurich Christmas Open

Recently cancelled	Alekhine Memorial Acropolis International chess tournament Aerosvit chess tournament Amber chess tournament Howard Staunton Memorial Tournament Linares International Chess Tournament Pearl Spring chess tournament Reggio Emilia chess tournament

Major past	American Chess Congress Carl Schlechter Memorial Tournament DSB Congress General Government chess tournament Grenke Chess Classic IBM international chess tournament Konex chess tournament Leopold Trebitsch Memorial Tournament Lone Pine International M-Tel Masters Mar del Plata chess tournament Max Euwe Memorial Tournament Monte Carlo chess tournament Netanya chess tournament Phillips & Drew Kings Piatigorsky Cup San Sebastián chess tournament Silesian Chess Congress Tilburg chess tournament Triberg chess tournament

List of strong chess tournaments List of mini chess tournaments List of round-robin chess tournaments Chess national championships

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