August 14, 2011

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CURAÇAO

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curacao A Dutch island of the Netherlands Antilles which staged the 5th Candidates tournament in 1962. Tigran Petrosian won the event and Viktor Korchnoi the 40th anniversary tournament in 2002. Since then a festival is annually organized.

The winners were:  2004 Alexander Shabalov, 2005 Boris Gulko and Jaan Ehlvest, 2006 Jaan Ehlvest,  2007 Victor Mikhalevski,  2008 Bernal Moro, 2009 Alexander Hernadez, 2010 Joel Benjamin, 2011 Loek Van Wely.

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Fischer and Korchnoi in 1962
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