FIDE Candidates: Full list of winners from 1950 to 2022 in open category
The Candidates tournament came into existence in 1950 as a qualifying tournament for the World Chess Championship final.
Over the years, the tournament has produced some memorable contests, while boasting of several high-profile winners.
The latest edition of the Candidates will happen in Toronto, Canada from April 4.
Here is the list of all Candidates winners in open category
- 1950 – David Bronstein
- 1953 – Vasily Smyslov
- 1956 – Vasily Smyslov
- 1959 – Mikhail Tal
- 1962 – Tigran Petrosian
- 1965 – Boris Spassky
- 1968 – Boris Spassky
- 1971 – Bobby Fischer
- 1974 – Anatoly Karpov
- 1977 – Victor Korchnoi
- 1980 – Victor Korchnoi
- 1983 – Garry Kasparov
- 1987 – Anatoly Karpov
- 1990 – Anatoly Karpov
- 1993 – Nigel Short
- 1995 – Viswanathan Anand
- 1997 – 2005 – Split Era
- 2007 – Top four qualified for eight-player World Championship final
- 2009 – Veselin Topalov
- 2011 – Boris Gelfand
- 2013 – Magnus Carlsen
- 2014 – Viswanathan Anand
- 2016 – Sergey Karjakin
- 2018 – Fabiano Caruana
- 2020-21 – Ian Nepomniachtchi
- 2022 – Ian Nepomniachtchi