Festival of failures of Bienne

The festival of failures of Bienne is a tournament of failures which is held each summer since 1968 in the Swiss city of Bienne.

The tournament of Bienne is not only the greatest demonstration échiquéenne in Suisse, but also the 3rd oldest festival of failures of Europe after the tournament of Hastings and the Chess tournament Corus of Wijk aan Zee.

The festival, which is held with the Palate of the Congresses to the downtown area, was created by Hans Suri who directed it until 1997. Today, its principal organizer is Peter Burri.

Interzonal tournament

A interzonal Tournoi, which acts as selection for the championship of the world of failures, was held there with three recoveries: in 1976,1985 and 1993.

After the success of interzonal of 1976, since 1977 is held a tournament of international large-Masters there in which the tenors of the world signal took part. The record of victories is held jointly by Anatoly Karpov and Alexander Morozevitch (3 gained editions each one). Are held also a tournament of Masters there, open opened with all the players as well as tournaments of fast play and blitz. In 2007 simultaneous against Israeli GMI was organized, Maxim Rodsthein.

Prize list

interzonal Tournaments

1976 : Bent Larsen (Denmark)
1985: Rafael Vaganian ()
1993: Boris Gelfand (),
Ce tournament most extremely open ever was certainly organized with the presence of Gata Kamsky, Vladimir Kramnik, Viswanathan Anand, Michael Adams, Vasily Ivanchuk, Alexeï Chirov, Judit Polgar, Viktor Kortchnoï, Vassily Smyslov, Veselin Topalov, Lajos Portisch, Alexander Khalifman, etc

Tournament of Large-Masters

1977 : Tony Miles (Great Britain)
1978: no the tournament of Large-Masters organized.
1979: Viktor Kortchnoï (Swiss), with 4.5 points in advance on its nearer prosecutor.
1980: Yehuda Grünfeld ()
1981: Eric Lobron (FRG) and Vlastimil Hort ()
1982: John Nunn (Great Britain) and Guilder Gheorghiu (Romania)
1983: Tony Miles (Great Britain)) and John Nunn (Great Britain)
1984: Vlastimil Hort () and Robert Hübner (FRG)
1986: Lev Polougaïevsky () and Eric Lobron (FRG)
1987: Boris Goulko (); the tournament for the first time is organized according to a system double-rounds.
1988: Ivan Sokolov () and Boris Gulko ()
1989: Vasily Ivanchuk () which carried out 5 victories in second half of the tournament after having aligned 6 null and a defeat, and Lev Polougaïevsky ()
1990: Anatoly Karpov (), ex-champion of the world gains the tournament at the time of its first participation.
1991: Alexeï Shirov ()
1992: Anatoly Karpov (Russia)
1994: Viktor Gavrikov (Swiss), the plate of this tournament was of a level appreciably lower than that of the previous years.
1995: Alexeï Dreev (Russia), in front of Shirov and Gelfand.
1996: Anatoly Karpov (Russia) and Vadim Milov (Swiss), 3rd participation and 3rd victory for Karpov.
1997: Viswanathan Anand (India) in front of Karpov.
1998: Mladen Palac (Croatia), a tournament joining together a less prestigious plate because of the defection of the principal sponsor, the Credit Suisse.
1999: Jeroen Piket (Netherlands)
2000: Peter Svidler (Russia), a tournament with a very high plate, competing with the most prestigious tournaments.
2001: Viktor Kortchnoï (Swiss), 22 years after its first victory in the tournament.
2002: Ilia Smirin ()
2003: Alexander Morozevitch (Russia)
2004: Alexander Morozevitch (Russia)
2005: Boris Gelfand () and Andrei Volokitin (Ukraine)
2006: Alexander Morozevitch (Russia), which equalizes the record of Karpov by signing one the 3rd success.
2007: Magnus Carlsen (Norway), which is essential 3-2 on decide between in front of the American Alexander Onischuk, and which becomes the youngest winner of the tournament of the Large-Masters of Bienne.

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