Chess Oscar

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The Chess Oscar was an annual award for the chess player who had shown the best performance in the previous twelve months. It was awarded in two phases, 1967–1988 and 1995–2013.

The Chess Oscar was initially awarded by journalists organized in the Association Internationale de la Presse Echiqueene (AIPE). Later officials, trainers and tournament organizers were also able to vote. After the AIPE disbanded after the death of its founder, the Spaniard Jorge Puig, the prize was not awarded between 1989 and 1994. In 1995 it was reintroduced on the initiative of Alexander Roshal and the Russian chess magazine 64 . The vote was supported by the world chess organization FIDE . In 2014, 64 stopped the publication, which means that no chess Oscar has been awarded since that year.

Chess Oscar winner

chronology

Between 1982 and 1988 there was also a chess Oscar for the best female chess player.

year Chess player Chess player
1967 (unofficial) DenmarkDenmark Bent Larsen not forgiven
1968 Soviet UnionSoviet Union Boris Spassky
1969
1970 United StatesUnited States Bobby Fischer
1971
1972
1973 Soviet UnionSoviet Union Anatoly Karpov
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978 Soviet UnionSoviet Union Viktor Korchnoi
1979 Soviet UnionSoviet Union Anatoly Karpov
1980
1981
1982 Soviet UnionSoviet Union Garry Kasparov Soviet UnionSoviet Union Nona Gaprindashvili
1983 SwedenSweden Pia Cramling
1984 Soviet UnionSoviet Union Anatoly Karpov Soviet UnionSoviet Union Maia Chiburdanidze
1985 Soviet UnionSoviet Union Garry Kasparov
1986
1987
1988 HungaryHungary Judit Polgár
1989-1994 not forgiven not forgiven
1995 RussiaRussia Garry Kasparov
1996
1997 IndiaIndia Viswanathan Anand
1998
1999 RussiaRussia Garry Kasparov
2000 RussiaRussia Vladimir Kramnik
2001 RussiaRussia Garry Kasparov
2002
2003 IndiaIndia Viswanathan Anand
2004
2005 BulgariaBulgaria Wesselin Topalow
2006 RussiaRussia Vladimir Kramnik
2007 IndiaIndia Viswanathan Anand
2008
2009 NorwayNorway Magnus Carlsen
2010
2011
2012
2013

statistics

Men
rank Chess player nation Oscars Years Age 1
start		 Age 1
end
1 Garry Kasparov Soviet UnionSoviet Union Soviet Union , Russia (from 1990)RussiaRussia  11 1982, 1983, 1985–1988, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2001, 2002 19th 39
2 Anatoly Karpov Soviet UnionSoviet Union Soviet Union 9 1973-1977, 1979-1981, 1984 22nd 33
3 Viswanathan Anand IndiaIndia India 6th 1997, 1998, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008 27 38
4th Magnus Carlsen NorwayNorway Norway 5 2009-2013 18th 22nd
5 Bobby Fischer † United StatesUnited States United States 3 1970-1972 27 29
6th Boris Spassky Soviet UnionSoviet Union Soviet Union 2 1968, 1969 31 32
Vladimir Kramnik RussiaRussia Russia 2 2000, 2006 25th 31
8th Bent Larsen † DenmarkDenmark Denmark 1 1967 (unofficial) 32 32
Viktor Korchnoi † SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland 1 1978 47 47
Wesselin Topalow BulgariaBulgaria Bulgaria 1 2005 30th 30th
Women
rank Chess player nation Oscars Years Age 1
start		 Age 1
end
1 Maia Chiburdanidze GeorgiaGeorgia Georgia 4th 1984-1987 23 26th
2 Nona Gaprindashvili GeorgiaGeorgia Georgia 1 1982 41 41
Pia Cramling SwedenSweden Sweden 1 1983 20th 20th
Judit Polgár HungaryHungary Hungary 1 1988 12 12
1 "Beginning" and "end" refer to the first and last year in which the Oscar was won.

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