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The capital of Iceland, famous for the organisation of the match Fischer- Spassky in 1972. With a good chess tradition, the city has also hosted some outstanding congresses in classical and Rapid Chess.

The winners were: (O=Open, R=Rapid) 1956 Olafsson, 1964 Tal, 1968 Taimanov, Vasiukov, 1970 Sigurjonsson, 1972 Gheorghiu, 1974 Smyslov, 1976 Olafsson, 1978 Byrne, 1980 Kupreichik, 1982 Alburt, 1984, H. Olafsson, 1985 Larsen, 1986 Nikolic, 1987 Short, 1988 Kotronias and M. Gurevich, 1989 Balashov, 1990 (O) Polugaevsky 1992 (O) Shirov and Hjartarson, 1993 Stangl, 1994 (O) Zvjaginsev, Pigusov and Stefansson, 1995 Stefansson, 1996 (O) Agdestein and Nikolic, 2000 (O) Stefansson, 2001 (O) Stefansson, 2002 (O) Ehlvest and Korneev, (R) M. Gurevich, 2003 Shirov, 2004 (O) Dreev, (R) Kasparov 2005, 2006 (O) Sargissian, 2007 (O) Miezis, 2008 Wang Hao (O), 2009 (O) Steingrimsson, 2010 (O) I. Sokolov, 2011 (O) Kuzubov.