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The first international '''Biel Chess Festival''' was held in 1968, since then a strong Master Open Tournament (Biel MTO) has been held every year. A Grandmaster Tournament has taken place since 1977.<ref>[http://www.bielchessfestival.ch/en/previous-winners/ International Chess Festival Biel - Previous winners<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://www.ajedrezdeataque.com/05%20Palmares/Torneos/Europa/Biel.htm Torneo Biel<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> The city of Biel hosted three [[Interzonal]] Tournaments in 1976, 1985, and 1993.

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! # !! Year !! Grandmaster Tournament !!Master Open Tournament 
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| 1 || 1968 || || {{flagathlete|[[Edwin Bhend]]|Switzerland}}
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| 2 || 1969 || || {{flagathlete|[[Jan Timman]]|Netherlands}}
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| 3 || 1970 || || {{flagathlete|[[Predrag Ostojic]]|Yugoslavia}}
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| 4 || 1971 || || {{flagathlete|[[Stanimir Nikolic]]|Yugoslavia}}
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| 5 || 1972 || || {{flagathlete|[[Milan Vukic]]|Yugoslavia}}
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| 6 || 1973 || || {{flagathlete|[[Milan Vukic]]|Yugoslavia}}<br>{{flagathlete|[[Janos Flesch]]|Hungary}}
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| 7 || 1974 || || {{flagathlete|[[Bela Soos]]|Romania}}
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| 8 || 1975 || || {{flagathlete|[[Mišo Cebalo]]|Yugoslavia}}<br>{{flagathlete|[[John Pigott]]|Australia}}<br>{{flagathlete|[[David Parr]]|Australia}} 
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| 9 || 1976 || {{flagathlete|[[Bent Larsen]]|Denmark}} (Interzonal) || {{flagathlete|[[Dragutin Sahovic]]|Yugoslavia}} <br> {{flagathlete|[[Radovan Govedarica]]|Yugoslavia}}
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| 10 || 1977 || {{flagathlete|[[Tony Miles]]|England}}  || {{flagathlete|[[Miguel Quinteros]]|Argentina}}
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| 11 || 1978 ||  || {{flagathlete|[[Charles Partos]]|Switzerland}}
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| 12 || 1979 || {{flagathlete|[[Viktor Korchnoi]]|Switzerland}} || {{flagathlete|[[Yehuda Gruenfeld]]|Israel}} <br> {{flagathlete|[[Jean Hebert]]|Canada}}
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| 13 || 1980 || {{flagathlete|[[Yehuda Gruenfeld]]|Israel}} || {{flagathlete|[[Israel Zilber]]|United States}} <br> {{flagathlete|[[Josip Rukavina]]|Yugoslavia}} <br> {{flagathlete|[[Beat Züger]]|Switzerland}} <br> {{flagathlete|[[Peter Scheeren]]|Netherlands}}
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| 14 || 1981 || {{flagathlete|[[Eric Lobron]]|Germany}} <br>{{flagathlete|[[Vlastimil Hort]]|Czechoslovakia}}|| {{flagathlete|[[Nathan Birnboim]]|Israel}} <br> {{flagathlete|[[Laszlo Karsa]]|Hungary}} <br> {{flagathlete|[[Ron Henley (chess player)|Ron Henley]]|United States}} <br> {{flagathlete|[[Eduard Meduna]]|Czechoslovakia}}
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| 15 || 1982 || {{flagathlete|[[John Nunn]]|England}}<br>{{flagathlete|[[Florin Gheorghiu]]|Romania}} || {{flagathlete|[[Ivan Nemet]]|Yugoslavia}} 
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| 16 || 1983 || {{flagathlete|[[Tony Miles]]|England}}<br>{{flagathlete|[[John Nunn]]|England}} || {{flagathlete|[[Jaan Eslon]]|Sweden}}
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| 17 || 1984 || {{flagathlete|[[Vlastimil Hort]]|Germany}}<br>{{flagathlete|[[Robert Hübner]]|Germany}}|| {{flagathlete|[[Carlos Garcia-Palermo]]|Argentina}}
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| 18 || 1985 || {{flagathlete|[[Rafael Vaganian]]|Soviet Union}} (Interzonal) || {{flagathlete|[[Ian Rogers (chess player)|Ian Rogers]]|Australia}} <br> {{flagathlete|[[Alon Greenfeld]]|Israel}}
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| 19 || 1986 || {{flagathlete|[[Lev Polugaevsky]]|Soviet Union}}<br>{{flagathlete|[[Eric Lobron]]|Germany}}|| {{flagathlete|[[Daniel Campora]]|Argentina}}
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| 20 || 1987 ||  {{flagathlete|[[Boris Gulko]]|United States}} || {{flagathlete|[[Lev Gutman]]|Israel}}
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| 21 || 1988 || {{flagathlete|[[Ivan Sokolov (chess player)|Ivan Sokolov]]|Yugoslavia}}<br>{{flagathlete|[[Boris Gulko]]|United States}}||{{flagathlete|[[Gennadi Kuzmin]]|Soviet Union}}
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| 22 || 1989 || {{flagathlete|[[Vassily Ivanchuk]]|Soviet Union}}||{{flagathlete|[[Matthias Wahls]]|Germany}}
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| 23 || 1990 || {{flagathlete|[[Anatoly Karpov]]|Soviet Union}}||{{flagathlete|[[Viktor Gavrikov]]|Soviet Union}}
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| 24 || 1991 || {{flagathlete|[[Alexei Shirov]]|Spain}}||{{flagathlete|[[Zurab Sturua]]|Soviet Union}}
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| 25 || 1992 || {{flagathlete|[[Anatoly Karpov]]|Russia}}||{{flagathlete|[[Alexander Shabalov]]|Latvia}}
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| 26 || 1993 || {{flagathlete|[[Boris Gelfand]]|Belarus}} (Interzonal)||{{flagathlete|[[Vadim Milov]]|Israel}}
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| 27 || 1994 || {{flagathlete|[[Viktor Gavrikov]]|Switzerland}}||{{flagathlete|[[Utut Adianto]]|Indonesia}}
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| 28 || 1995 || {{flagathlete|[[Alexei Dreev]]|Russia}}|| {{flagathlete|[[Igor Glek]]|Germany}}
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| 29 || 1996 || {{flagathlete|[[Anatoly Karpov]]|Russia}}|| {{flagathlete|[[Zurab Sturua]]|Georgia}} 
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| 30 || 1997 || {{flagathlete|[[Viswanathan Anand]]|India}}|| {{flagathlete|[[Ildar Ibragimov]]|Russia}}
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| 31 || 1998 || {{flagathlete|[[Mladen Palac]]|Croatia}}|| {{flagathlete|[[Miloš Pavlović (chess player)|Milos Pavlovic]]|Yugoslavia}}
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| 32 || 1999 || {{flagathlete|[[Jeroen Piket]]|Netherlands}} || {{flagathlete|[[Vadim Milov]]|Switzerland}}
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| 33 || 2000 || {{flagathlete|[[Peter Svidler]]|Russia}}|| {{flagathlete|[[Boris Avrukh]]|Israel}}
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| 34 || 2001 || {{flagathlete|[[Viktor Korchnoi]]|Switzerland}}|| {{flagathlete|[[Boris Avrukh]]|Israel}}
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| 35 || 2002 || {{flagathlete|[[Ilya Smirin]]|Israel}}|| {{flagathlete|[[Miloš Pavlović (chess player)|Milos Pavlovic]]|Yugoslavia}}
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| 36 || 2003 || {{flagathlete|[[Alexander Morozevich]]|Russia}}|| {{flagathlete|[[Mikhail Ulibin]]|Russia}}
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| 37 || 2004 || {{flagathlete|[[Alexander Morozevich]]|Russia}}|| {{flagathlete|[[Christian Bauer]]|France}}
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| 38 || 2005 || {{flagathlete|[[Boris Gelfand]]|Israel}}<br>{{flagathlete|[[Andrei Volokitin]]|Ukraine}} || {{flagathlete|[[Mikhail Kobalia]]|Russia}}
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| 39 || 2006 || {{flagathlete|[[Alexander Morozevich]]|Russia}} || {{flagathlete|[[Bartosz Soćko]]|Poland}}
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| 40 || 2007 || {{flagathlete|[[Magnus Carlsen]]|Norway}} || {{flagathlete|[[Mikhail Ulibin]]|Russia}}
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| 41 || 2008 || {{flagathlete|[[Evgeny Alekseev (chess player)|Evgeny Alekseev]]|Russia}} || {{flagathlete|[[Vladimir Belov (chess player)|Vladimir Belov]]|Russia}}
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| 42 || 2009 || {{flagathlete|[[Maxime Vachier-Lagrave]]|France}} || {{flagathlete|[[Boris Grachev]]|Russia}}
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| 43 || 2010 || {{flagathlete|[[Fabiano Caruana]]|Italy}} || {{flagathlete|[[Alexander Riazantsev]]|Russia}}
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| 44 || 2011 || {{flagathlete|[[Magnus Carlsen]]|Norway}} || {{flagathlete|[[Ni Hua]]|China}}
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| 45 || 2012 || {{flagathlete|[[Wang Hao (chess player)|Wang Hao]]|China}} || {{flagathlete|[[Igor Kurnosov]]|Russia}}
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| 46 || 2013 || {{flagathlete|[[Maxime Vachier-Lagrave]]|France}} || {{flagathlete|[[Pentala Harikrishna]]|India}}
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| 47 || 2014 || {{flagathlete|[[Maxime Vachier-Lagrave]]|France}} || {{flagathlete|[[Baskaran Adhiban]]|India}}
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| 48 || 2015 || {{flagathlete|[[Maxime Vachier-Lagrave]]|France}} || {{flagathlete|[[Emil Sutovsky]]|Israel}}
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| 49 || 2016<ref>In 2016 a match between Maxim Vachier-Lagrave and [[Peter Svidler]] took place instead of the traditional [[Round-robin tournament|round-robin]] Grandmaster Tournament.</ref> || {{flagathlete|[[Maxime Vachier-Lagrave]]|France}} (match) ||{{flagathlete|[[Samuel Shankland]]|United States}}
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| 50 || 2017 || {{flagathlete|[[Hou Yifan]]|China}}  || {{flagathlete|[[Mateusz Bartel]]|Poland}}
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==References==
{{reflist}}
==External links==
* [http://www.bielchessfestival.ch/ Official site]

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