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The chess tournaments at Wijk ann Zee date back to 1938 and have been sponsored by Hoogovens and most recently by Corus since the year 2000 following their takeover of Hoogovens. Tata has just taken over Corus so we’ll see what impact that has on the Corus chess tourney going forward. Below is a list of the winners since 1938.

1938     Bakker 
 
1939     Cortelever
   
1940     Max Euwe
    
1941     Wijnans
    
1942     Max Euwe
    
1943     Van der Hoek 
  
1944     Théo Van Scheltiga
    
1946     Albéric O’Kelly de Galway
 
1947     Théo Van Scheltiga
    
1948     Lodewijk Prins
 
1949     Xavier Tartacover
 
1950     Jan Hein Donner
 
1951     Herman Pilnik
 
1952     Max Euwe  
 
1953     Nicolas Rossolimo
 
1954     Hans Bouwmeester and Vasja Pirc
    
1955     Borislav Milic  
 
1956     Gidéon Stahlberg 
 
1957     Alexandar Matanovic 
 
1958     Max Euwe and Jan Hein Donner
 
1959     Fridrik Olafsson
 
1960     Bent Larsen and Tigran Petrossian 
  
1961     Bent Larsen and Borislav Ivkov
   
1962     Petar Trifunovic
 
1963     Jan Hein Donner
     
1964     Paul Kérès and Iivo Nei
     
1965     Efim Geller and Lajos Portisch
   
1966     Lev Polougaievsky
 
1967     Boris Spassky 
   
1968     Viktor Kortchnoi
 
1969     Botvinnik and Efim Geller
    
1970     Mark Taimanov
 
1971     Viktor Kortchnoi
    
1972     Lajos Portisch
     
1973     Mikhail Tal 
   
1974     Walter Browne  
  
1975     Lajos Portisch 
   
1976     Ljubomir Ljubojevic and Fridrik Olafsson
 
1977     Efim Geller and Gennadi Sosonko
    
1978     Lajos Portisch
 
1979     Lev Polougaievsky
 
1980     Walter Browne and Yasser Seirawan 
 
1981     Gennadi Sosonko and Jan Timman
   
1982     John Nunn and Youri Balachov 
 
1983     Ulf Andersson
  
1984     Alexandre Beliavsky and Victor Kortchnoï
  
1985     Jan Timman 
 
1986   Nigel Short
 
1987   Nigel Short and Victor Kortchnoï
 
1988   Anatoly Karpov
 
1989     Anand, Nikolic, Ribli and Sax
 
1990   John Nunn
 
1991   John Nunn
 
1992   Valery Salov and Boris Guelfan
 
1993   Anatoly Karpov
 
1994     Predrag Nikolic
 
1995   Alexey Dreev
 
1996   Vassily Ivantchouk
 
1997   Valery Salov
 
1998   Vladimir Kramnik and Vishwanathan Anand
 
1999   Garry Kasparov
 
2000   Garry Kasparov
  
2001   Garry Kasparov
 
2002   Evgeny Bareev 
 
2003   Vishwanathan Anand
 
2004   Vishwanathan Anand
 
2005   Peter Leko
 
2006   Vishwanathan Anand and Veselin Topalov
 
2007  Topalov, Aronian and Radjabov
 

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