Chess Oscars

Magnus Carlsen, 2011 Chess Oscar Winner (3 times consecutive winner since 2009)

The Chess Oscar has been awarded annually from 1967 - 1988, 1995 - now.  It is awarded based on votes by international chess experts and GMs.  Starting in 1995, it has been coordinated by 64, a Russian chess magazine.  The Oscar is highly regarded as a premier degree of peer recognition.

6-time Oscar winner and current World Champion Vishy Anand once said: "Winning the Oscars gives you the satisfaction that people have appreciated your games.  In the years when the World Championship didn't happen the Oscars gave a sense of order in the chess world."

Listed for each year are the Winner of the Oscar, what # Oscar this is for them, who came second/third in the Oscar standings that year (2001-8, 2010-1 only), and big tournaments the winner won in that year (clear winner or =1st).

Note: Entries in Bold indicate that they were the World Champion for that year (or part of that year) (either Classical, FIDE, or Undisputed)

1967: Larsen (1st Chess Oscar, Havana 1967, Winnipeg 1967, Palma de Mallorca 1967)
1968: Spassky (1st, Kiev (Candidates Final))
1969: Spassky (2nd, San Juan)
1970: Fischer (1st, Rovinj/Zagreb, Buenos Aires, Herceg Novi blitz, Palma de Mallorca)
1971: Fischer (2nd, Buenos Aires (Candidates Final))
1972: Fischer (3rd)
1973: Karpov (1st, Leningrad, Madrid)
1974: Karpov (2nd, Moscow (Candidates Final)
1975: Karpov (3rd, Portoroz/Ljubljana, Milan)
1976: Karpov (4th, Amsterdam)
1977: Karpov (1st, Bad Lauterberg, Tilburg)
1978: Korchnoi (1st)
1979: Karpov (2nd,  Montreal, Tilburg)
1980: Karpov (3rd, Amsterdam, Bad Kissingen, Bugojno, Tilburg)
1981: Karpov (4th, Linares)
1982: Kasparov (1st)
1983: Kasparov (2nd, Niksic)
1984: Karpov (5th, Oslo, London)
1985: Kasparov (3rd)
1986: Kasparov (4th)
1987: Kasparov (5th, Brussels)
1988: Kasparov (6th, Belfort (World Cup), Reykavik World Championship)
1989 - 1994: Chess Oscar Hiatus
1995: Kasparov (7th, Novgorod, Riga)
1996: Kasparov (8th, Amsterdam, Las Palmas)
1997: Anand (1st, Belgrade, Biel, Dos Hermanas)
1998: Anand (2nd, Linares, Madrid, Tilburg)
1999: Kasparov (9th, Linares, Wijk aan Zee)
2000: Kramnik (1st, Dortmund, Linares)
2001: Kasparov (10th, 2nd = Kramnik, 3rd = Ponomariov, Astana, Linares, Wijk aan Zee)
2002: Kasparov (11th, Leko, Anand, Linares, Moscow)
2003: Anand (3rd, Svidler, Kramnik, Wijk aan Zee)
2004: Anand (4th, Leko, Kasparov, Dortmund, Wijk aan Zee)
2005: Topalov (1st, Anand, Aronian, Linares, Sofia)
2006: Kramnik (2nd, Topalov, Anand, Dortmund)
2007: Anand (5th, Kramnik, Kamsky, Mainz, Leon)
2008: Anand (6th, Kramnik, Kamsky, Linares)
2009: Carlsen (1st, Nanjing, London)
2010: Carlsen (2nd, Anand, Aronian, Wijk aan Zee, Bazna, Nanjing, London)
2011: Carlsen (3rd, Anand, Aronian, Medias, Biel, Bilbao/Sao Paulo, Moscow)

# Chess Oscars
Kasparov - 11
Karpov - 9
Anand - 6
Carlsen, Fischer - 3
Spassky, Kramnik - 2
Larsen, Korchnoi, Topalov - 1