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Dutch city situated between Amsterdam and the North Sea which since 1938 were the venue of national and international chess festivals. In 1968 the festival moved to the nearby village of Wijk aan Zee.

For more than 60 years the festival was sponsored by the Hoogovens Factory then was renamed Corus in 2000 and recently, in 2011, Tata Steel Chess Tournament.
By tradition the festival is organized the last two weeks of January.

Participants in the Hoogoven Tournament of 1963

The winners were: 1938 Bakker & van Dijk, 1939 Cortlever, 1940 Euwe, 1941 Wijnans, 1942 Euwe, 1943 Van der Hoek, 1944 Van Scheltinga, 1946 O’Kelly, 1947 Van Scheltinga, 1948 Prins, 1949 Tartakower, 1950 Donner, 1951 Pilnik, 1952 Euwe, 1953 Rossolimo, 1954 Bouwmeester, 1955 Milic, 1956 Stahlberg, 1957 Matanovic, 1958 Euwe & Donner, 1959 Olafsson, 1960 Larsen & Petrosian, 1961 Larsen & Ivkov, 1962 Trifunovic, 1963 Donner, 1964 Keres & Nei, 1965 Portisch & Geller, 1966 Polugaevski,  1967 Spassky, 1968 Korchnoi, 1969 Botvinnik & Geller, 1970 Taimanov, 1971 Korchnoi, 1972 Portisch, 1973 Tal, 1974 Browne, 1975 Portisch, 1976 Ljubojevic & Olafsson, 1977 Sosonko & Geller, 1978 Portisch, 1979 Polugaevski, 1980 Seirawan & Browne, 1981 Sosonko & Timman, 1982 Nunn & Balashov, 1983 Andersson, 1984 Korchnoi, 1985 Timman, 1986 Short, 1987 Short & Korchnoi, 1988 Karpov, 1989 Anand, P. Nikolic, Ribli & Sax, 1990 Nunn, 1991 Nunn, 1992 Salov & Gelfand, 1993  Karpov, 1994 P. Nikolic, 1995 Dreev, 1996 Ivanchuk, 1997 Salov, 1998 Anand & Kramnik, 1999 Kasparov, 2000 Kasparov, 2001 Kasparov, 2002 Bareev, 2003 Anand, 2004 Anand, 2005 Leko, 2006 Anand and Topalov, 2007 Aronian, Topalov and Radjabov, 2008 Aronian and Carlsen, 2009 Karjakin, 2010 Carlsen, 2011 Hikaru Nakamura.