Tilburg chess tournament
# Year Winner
1 1977 Anatoly Karpov ( Soviet Union )
2 1978 Lajos Portisch ( Hungary )
3 1979 Anatoly Karpov ( Soviet Union )
4 1980 Anatoly Karpov ( Soviet Union )
5 1981 Alexander Beliavsky ( Soviet Union )
6 1982 Anatoly Karpov ( Soviet Union )
7 1983 Anatoly Karpov ( Soviet Union )
8 1984 Tony Miles ( England )
9 1985 Tony Miles ( England ) Robert Hübner ( West Germany ) Victor Korchnoi ( Switzerland )
10 1986 Alexander Beliavsky ( Soviet Union )
11 1987 Jan Timman ( Netherlands )
12 1988 Anatoly Karpov ( Soviet Union )
13 1989 Garry Kasparov ( Soviet Union )
14 1990 Vassily Ivanchuk ( Soviet Union ) Gata Kamsky ( United States )
15 1991 Garry Kasparov ( Soviet Union )
16 1992 Michael Adams ( England )
17 1993 Anatoly Karpov ( Russia )
18 1994 Valery Salov ( Russia )
1 1996 Jeroen Piket ( Netherlands ) ( best on tie-break ) Boris Gelfand ( Israel )
2 1997 Peter Svidler ( Russia ) ( best on tie-break ) Garry Kasparov ( Russia ) Vladimir Kramnik ( Russia )
The Tilburg chess tournament was a series of very strong chess tournaments held in Tilburg , Netherlands . It was established in 1977 and ran continuously through 1994 under the sponsorship of Interpolis , an insurance company . Fontys Hogescholen shortly revived the tournament series from 1996 to 1998 , when the last edition was played . Since 1994 there is another annual chess tournament taking place in Tilburg , which has the name De Stukkenjagers , the field is generally much weaker than the traditional Tilburg tournament .
The Tilburg chess tournament was a series of very strong chess tournaments held in Tilburg, Netherlands. It was established in 1977 and ran continuously through 1994 under the sponsorship of Interpolis, an insurance company. Fontys Hogescholen shortly revived the tournament series from 1996 to 1998, when the last edition was played. Since 1994 there is another annual chess tournament taking place in Tilburg, which has the name De Stukkenjagers, the field is generally much weaker than the traditional Tilburg tournament.