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The annual Linares chess tournament, usually played around the end of February, takes its name from the city of Linares in the Jaén province of Andalusia, Spain, in which it is held. It is sometimes described as the Wimbledon of chess. It is one of the strongest annual tournaments held on the chess tour, along with the Corus chess tournament and Dortmund chess tournament.

The event, sponsored by Luis Rentero, was first held in 1978. At that time it was not an elite event and was won by the relatively unknown Swede Jaan Eslon (on tie-break from the Argentine Roberto Debarnot). After the following year's event, it was held every other year until 1987 when there was no tournament. That year Linares was the site of the Candidates Final, the match to determine who played World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov for his title, with Anatoly Karpov playing Andrei Sokolov. Since 1988 the Linares chess tournament has been held every year with the exception of 1996, when the Women's World Chess Championship was held.

In 1998, Linares was changed from a single round-robin tournament to a seven player double round-robin event (meaning that each participant plays every other participant twice, once with each color).

Luis Rentero is notorious for being a strong opponent of short draws in chess, to the point that in 1991 he offered cash bonuses for playing longer games.

In 2006 and 2007 the first half of the tournament was held in the Mexican city of Morelia, returning to Linares for the second half.

Contents 1 Winners 2 Full Results 2.1 2007 Results 3 External links

• 1978 Jaan Eslon
• 1979 Larry Christiansen
• 1981 Anatoly Karpov and Larry Christiansen
• 1983 Boris Spassky
• 1985 Ljubomir Ljubojević and Robert Hübner
• 1988 Jan Timman
• 1989 Vassily Ivanchuk
• 1990 Garry Kasparov
• 1991 Vassily Ivanchuk
• 1992 Garry Kasparov
• 1993 Garry Kasparov
• 1994 Anatoly Karpov
• 1995 Vassily Ivanchuk
• 1997 Garry Kasparov
• 1998 Viswanathan Anand
• 1999 Garry Kasparov
• 2000 Vladimir Kramnik and Garry Kasparov
• 2001 Garry Kasparov
• 2002 Garry Kasparov
• 2003 Péter Lékó (Joint winner with Vladimir Kramnik; but had a better tiebreak score)
• 2004 Vladimir Kramnik
• 2005 Garry Kasparov (with the same score as Veselin Topalov; won on tiebreak because of more wins with black)
• 2006 Levon Aronian
• 2007 Viswanathan Anand

Final Results of 2007:[1]

XXIV SuperGM Morelia/Linares MEX/ESP (MEX/ESP), 17 ii-10 iii 2007cat. XX (2746)

                                    1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8 

1 Anand, Viswanathan     g IND 2779 ** 11 1= 0= == == == 1=  8.5  2820
2 Carlsen, Magnus        g NOR 2690 00 ** 1= == == 11 1= =0  7.5  2782
3 Morozevich, Alexander  g RUS 2741 0= 0= ** == =1 =1 01 =1  7.5  2775
4 Aronian, Levon         g ARM 2744 1= == == ** == 0= == ==  7.0  2745
5 Svidler, Peter         g RUS 2728 == == =0 == ** == == =1  7.0  2748
6 Ivanchuk, Vassily      g UKR 2750 == 00 =0 1= == ** 1= ==  6.5  2715
7 Topalov, Veselin       g BUL 2783 == 0= 10 == == 0= ** ==  6.0  2690
8 Leko, Peter            g HUN 2749 0= =1 =0 == =0 == == **  6.0  2695

• 36 videos of chess,20 games of Linares,2007 and 16 games of previous tournament.

• Where is Linares? from Chess base