Alekhine Memorial


The Alekhine Memorial was a recurring chess tournament, organized in different cities and irregular intervals, honoring the former world chess champion Alexander Alekhine.
The Alekhine Memorial tournaments have no numbering, sometimes it is thus unclear whether or not an event can be regarded as an Alekhine Memorial.
Immediately after Alekhine's death, Erich Eliskases won at Rio de Janeiro in 1946 the first Alekhine Memorial ever held.

Alekhine Memorial 1992

Alekhine Memorial 1992 was held in Moscow, Russia in November. Field included such participants as former world champion Anatoly Karpov, Alexei Shirov, Viswanathan Anand, Boris Gelfand, Jan Timman and Gata Kamsky, who were in top 10 at that time. First place was tied between Gelfand and Anand, while Kamsky finished in clear third.

Alekhine Memorial 2013

The first part of the tournament was held at the pavilion built in the Tuileries Garden in Paris, France, on 20–25 April 2013. The second part was held at the Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on 28 April – 1 May 2013. The prize money of the tournament is €100,000.

Tiebreaks

In the case that two or more players have equal points, the following criteria were utilized to decide the placings:
  1. The largest number of games played with the black pieces.
  2. The largest number of wins.
  3. The result of the personal match.
  4. The Koya score.
  5. The Sonneborn–Berger score.

Standings