World Senior Chess Championship

The World Chess Championship of seniors is a 1991 to be held by the FIDE tournament. Organizer of the first and other Senior World Championships was Reinhold Hoffmann ( ChessOrg ), which is also due to that the senior world champion gets the title of Grand Master.

Survey

In 1997, he presented the honorary plate of the German Chess Federation in recognition of his services to the elderly chess Reinhold Hoffmann von Egon Ditt, the then President of the German Chess Federation. In 1998 he was honored with the award of the Order of Merit. July 2006 he succumbed to a serious illness.

Seniors originally played in the same tournament. Only later, there was a separate championship for women, although women also were allowed to play in the men's tournament. The minimum age is 60 for men ( 1 January date of the game year ), with the women, the minimum age is 50 years. The Senior World Championship will be held as an open tournament with 11 rounds Swiss system. With the title win the award of the Grand Master title is associated since 1997 with the men. The winner in the women receive the title of Grand Master of the women.

List of winners

Swell

  • Program and bulletins to first Senior World Chess Championship. ChessOrg, Bad Wörishofen 1991.
  • Bulletins 3 Open World Championship of seniors. ChessOrg, Bad Wildbad 1993.
  • Reinhold Hoffmann: 5th World Championship of seniors in 1995 Bad love cell and 1 companion Open. ChessOrg -Verlag, Völklingen.
  • Bulletins to 6 Senior World Championship 10 -24. November 1996. ChessOrg, Bad Liebenzell 1996.
  • Bulletins 7th World Championship for seniors 9th - 23rd November 1997. ChessOrg, Bad Wildbad 1997.
  • The world chess champion in the senior and reports this by Gerhard dog
  • Report Senior World Championships 2006 table of previous Senior World Championships
  • Report Senior World Championships 2007
Efim Geller Mark Taimanov Alexey Suetin Grieskirchen Gladenbach Rowy, Pomeranian Voivodeship Italy Arco (Trentino) Bad Zwischenahn Bulgaria Gmunden Algimantas Butnorius Larry Kaufman Condino France European Senior Chess Championship
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