The 49th International Chess Festival Biel must unfortunately be postponed by a week. It will now take place from Saturday, July 23 until Wednesday, August 3 2016. The dates planned previously overlap with the Tour de France passing through Bern, thus occupying most of the hotels in the region for several days. The Master Open (MTO) will be played over 9 rounds this year.
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Biel Chess 2016 (top 20 players)
1. GM Nikita Vitiugov RUS 2728 Elo
2. GM Maxim Rodshtein ISR 2698
3. GM Eltaj Safarli AZE 2678
4. GM Samuel Shankland USA 2661
5. GM Ivan Saric CRO 2660
6. GM Georg Meier GER 2657
7. GM S.P. Sethuraman IND 2656
8. GM Axel Bachmann PAR 2649
9. GM Mateusz Bartel POL 2649
10. GM Romain Edouard FRA 2639
11. GM Krishnan Sasikiran IND 2639
12. GM Csaba Balogh HUN 2635
13. GM Ildar Khairullin RUS 2629
14. GM Aleksandr Shimanov RUS 2627
15. GM Vladimir Baklan UKR 2618
16. GM Rinat Jumabayev KAZ 2613
17. GM Vitaly Kunin GER 2592
18. GM Ante Brkic CRO 2585
19. GM Alexander Donchenko GER 2583
20. GM Alexander Kovchan UKR 2576
List of all the winners of Biel Chess (Grandmaster and Master tournaments)
| Edition | 1968 |  Edwin Bhend (Switzerland) |
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| 2 | 1969 |  Jan Timman (Netherlands) |
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| 3 | 1970 |  Predrag Ostojic (Yugoslavia) |
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| 4 | 1971 | Stanimir Nikolic (Yugoslavia) |
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| 5 | 1972 | Milan Vukic (Yugoslavia) |
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| 6 | 1973 | Milan Vukic (Yugoslavia) Janos Flesch (Hungary) |
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| 7 | 1974 |  Bela Soos (Romania) |
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| 8 | 1975 | Mišo Cebalo (Yugoslavia) John Pigott (Australia) David Parr (Australia) |
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| 9 | 1976 |  Bent Larsen (Denmark) (Interzonal) |
Dragutin Sahovic (Yugoslavia) Radovan Govedarica (Yugoslavia) |
| 10 | 1977 |  Tony Miles (England) |
 Miguel Quinteros (Argentina) |
| 11 | 1978 | Charles Partos (Switzerland) |
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| 12 | 1979 | Viktor Korchnoi (Switzerland) |
 Yehuda Gruenfeld (Israel) Jean Hebert (Canada) |
| 13 | 1980 | Yehuda Gruenfeld (Israel) |
 Israel Zilber (United States) Josip Rukavina (Yugoslavia) Beat Züger (Switzerland) Peter Scheeren (Netherlands) |
| 14 | 1981 |  Eric Lobron (Germany) Vlastimil Hort (Czechoslovakia) |
Nathan Birnboim (Israel) Laszlo Karsa (Hungary) Ron Henley (United States) Eduard Meduna (Czechoslovakia) |
| 15 | 1982 | John Nunn (England) Florin Gheorghiu (Romania) |
Ivan Nemet (Yugoslavia) |
| 16 | 1983 | Tony Miles (England) John Nunn (England) |
 Jaan Eslon (Sweden) |
| 17 | 1984 | Vlastimil Hort (Germany) Robert Hübner (Germany) |
Carlos Garcia-Palermo (Argentina) |
| 18 | 1985 |  Rafael Vaganian (Soviet Union) (Interzonal) |
Ian Rogers (Australia) Alon Greenfeld (Israel) |
| 19 | 1986 | Lev Polugaevsky (Soviet Union) Eric Lobron (Germany) |
Daniel Campora (Argentina) |
| 20 | 1987 | Boris Gulko (United States) |
Lev Gutman (Israel) |
| 21 | 1988 | Ivan Sokolov (Yugoslavia) Boris Gulko (United States) |
Gennadi Kuzmin (Soviet Union) |
| 22 | 1989 | Vassily Ivanchuk (Soviet Union) |
Matthias Wahls (Germany) |
| 23 | 1990 | Anatoly Karpov (Soviet Union) |
Viktor Gavrikov (Soviet Union) |
| 24 | 1991 |  Alexei Shirov (Spain) |
Zurab Sturua (Soviet Union) |
| 25 | 1992 |  Anatoly Karpov (Russia) |
 Alexander Shabalov (Latvia) |
| 26 | 1993 |  Boris Gelfand (Belarus) (Interzonal) |
Vadim Milov (Israel) |
| 27 | 1994 | Viktor Gavrikov (Switzerland) |
 Utut Adianto (Indonesia) |
| 28 | 1995 | Alexei Dreev (Russia) |
Igor Glek (Germany) |
| 29 | 1996 | Anatoly Karpov (Russia) |
 Zurab Sturua (Georgia) |
| 30 | 1997 |  Viswanathan Anand (India) |
Ildar Ibragimov (Russia) |
| 31 | 1998 |  Mladen Palac (Croatia) |
Milos Pavlovic (Yugoslavia) |
| 32 | 1999 | Jeroen Piket (Netherlands) |
Vadim Milov (Switzerland) |
| 33 | 2000 | Peter Svidler (Russia) |
Boris Avrukh (Israel) |
| 34 | 2001 | Viktor Korchnoi (Switzerland) |
Boris Avrukh (Israel) |
| 35 | 2002 | Ilya Smirin (Israel) |
Milos Pavlovic (Yugoslavia) |
| 36 | 2003 | Alexander Morozevich (Russia) |
Mikhail Ulibin (Russia) |
| 37 | 2004 | Alexander Morozevich (Russia) |
 Christian Bauer (France) |
| 38 | 2005 | Boris Gelfand (Israel) Andrei Volokitin (Ukraine) |
Mikhail Kobalia (Russia) |
| 39 | 2006 | Alexander Morozevich (Russia) |
 Bartosz Soćko (Poland) |
| 40 | 2007 |  Magnus Carlsen (Norway) |
Mikhail Ulibin (Russia) |
| 41 | 2008 | Evgeny Alekseev (Russia) |
Vladimir Belov (Russia) |
| 42 | 2009 | Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France) |
Boris Grachev (Russia) |
| 43 | 2010 |  Fabiano Caruana (Italy) |
Alexander Riazantsev (Russia) |
| 44 | 2011 | Magnus Carlsen (Norway) |
 Ni Hua (China) |
| 45 | 2012 | Wang Hao (China) |
Igor Kurnosov (Russia) |
| 46 | 2013 | Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France) |
Pentala Harikrishna (India) |
| 47 | 2014 | Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France) |
Baskaran Adhiban (India) |
| 48 | 2015 | Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France) |
Emil Sutovsky (Israel) |
