Biel Chess Festival

The Biel International Chess Festival is an annual chess tournament that takes place in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland. It consists of two events, the Grandmaster Tournament, held with the round-robin system, and the Master Open Tournament (MTO), held with the Swiss system. The Grandmaster Tournament has taken place since 1977.[1][2] The city of Biel hosted three Interzonal Tournaments, in 1976, 1985 and 1993.

Winners
#YearGrandmaster TournamentMaster Open Tournament
11968 Edwin Bhend (Switzerland)
21969 Jan Timman (Netherlands)
31970 Predrag Ostojic (Yugoslavia)
41971 Stanimir Nikolic (Yugoslavia)
51972 Milan Vukic (Yugoslavia)
61973 Milan Vukic (Yugoslavia)
 János Flesch (Hungary)
71974 Bela Soos (Romania)
81975 Mišo Cebalo (Yugoslavia)
 John Pigott (England)
 David Parr (Australia)
91976 Bent Larsen (Denmark) (Interzonal) Dragutin Sahovic (Yugoslavia)
 Radovan Govedarica (Yugoslavia)
101977 Tony Miles (England) Miguel Quinteros (Argentina)
111978 Charles Partos (Switzerland)
121979 Viktor Korchnoi (Switzerland) Yehuda Gruenfeld (Israel)
 Jean Hébert (Canada)
131980 Yehuda Gruenfeld (Israel) Israel Zilber (United States)
 Josip Rukavina (Yugoslavia)
 Beat Züger (Switzerland)
 Peter Scheeren (Netherlands)
141981 Eric Lobron (West Germany)
 Vlastimil Hort (Czechoslovakia)		 Nathan Birnboim (Israel)
 Laszlo Karsa (Hungary)
 Ron Henley (United States)
 Eduard Meduna (Czechoslovakia)
151982 John Nunn (England)
 Florin Gheorghiu (Romania)		 Ivan Nemet (Yugoslavia)
161983 Tony Miles (England)
 John Nunn (England)		 Jaan Eslon (Sweden)
171984 Vlastimil Hort (West Germany)
 Robert Hübner (West Germany)		 Carlos Garcia-Palermo (Argentina)
181985 Rafael Vaganian (Soviet Union) (Interzonal) Ian Rogers (Australia)
 Alon Greenfeld (Israel)
191986 Lev Polugaevsky (Soviet Union)
 Eric Lobron (West Germany)		 Daniel Cámpora (Argentina)
201987 Boris Gulko (United States) Lev Gutman (Israel)
211988 Ivan Sokolov (Yugoslavia)
 Boris Gulko (United States)		 Gennadi Kuzmin (Soviet Union)
221989 Vassily Ivanchuk (Soviet Union) Matthias Wahls (West Germany)
231990 Anatoly Karpov (Soviet Union) Viktor Gavrikov (Soviet Union)
241991 Alexei Shirov (Latvia) Zurab Sturua (Soviet Union)
251992 Anatoly Karpov (Russia) Alexander Shabalov (Latvia)
261993 Boris Gelfand (Belarus) (Interzonal) Vadim Milov (Israel)
271994 Viktor Gavrikov (Switzerland) Utut Adianto (Indonesia)
281995 Alexey Dreev (Russia) Igor Glek (Germany)
291996 Anatoly Karpov (Russia) Zurab Sturua (Georgia)
301997 Viswanathan Anand (India) Ildar Ibragimov (Russia)
311998 Mladen Palac (Croatia) Milos Pavlovic (Yugoslavia)
321999 Jeroen Piket (Netherlands) Vadim Milov (Switzerland)
332000 Peter Svidler (Russia) Boris Avrukh (Israel)
342001 Viktor Korchnoi (Switzerland) Boris Avrukh (Israel)
352002 Ilya Smirin (Israel) Milos Pavlovic (Yugoslavia)
362003 Alexander Morozevich (Russia) Mikhail Ulibin (Russia)
372004 Alexander Morozevich (Russia) Christian Bauer (France)
382005 Boris Gelfand (Israel)
 Andrei Volokitin (Ukraine)		 Mikhail Kobalia (Russia)
392006 Alexander Morozevich (Russia) Bartosz Soćko (Poland)
402007 Magnus Carlsen (Norway) Mikhail Ulibin (Russia)
412008 Evgeny Alekseev (Russia) Vladimir Belov (Russia)
422009 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France) Boris Grachev (Russia)
432010 Fabiano Caruana (Italy) Alexander Riazantsev (Russia)
442011 Magnus Carlsen (Norway) Ni Hua (China)
452012 Wang Hao (China) Igor Kurnosov (Russia)
462013 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France) Pentala Harikrishna (India)
472014 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France) Baskaran Adhiban (India)
482015 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France) Emil Sutovsky (Israel)
492016[3] Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France) Samuel Shankland (United States)
502017 Hou Yifan (China) Mateusz Bartel (Poland)
512018 Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan) Suri Vaibhav (India)
522019 Vidit Gujrathi (India) Amin Tabatabaei (IRI)
532020 Radosław Wojtaszek (Poland) Christian Bauer (France)
542021 Gata Kamsky (United States) Salem Saleh (United Arab Emirates)
552022 Lê Quang Liêm (Vietnam) Mahammad Muradli (Azerbaijan)
56 2023  Lê Quang Liêm (Vietnam)  Bu Xiangzhi (China)

References
  1. International Chess Festival Biel – Previous winners
  2. Torneo Biel
  3. In 2016 a match between Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Peter Svidler took place instead of the traditional round-robin Grandmaster Tournament.
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