Vidmar Memorial

The Milan Vidmar Memorial is a chess tournament commemorating Milan Vidmar (1885-1962), a leading Slovenian grandmaster.

The first Vidmar Memorial was held in 2-20 June 1969 in Ljubljana. In subsequent years the tournament has been held in several different Slovenian cities.

The event in 1995 at Ptuj was a Zonal Tournament, with Stefan Kindermann who did win, Viktor Korchnoi, and Thomas Luther earning a spot to advance (due to the split of FIDE in 1993, the World Chess Championship cycles with Interzonals and Candidates Tournament collapsed).

Winners

#	Year	City	Winner
1	1969	Ljubljana	Albin Planinc (Yugoslavia)
2	1973	Ljubljana, Portorož	Lajos Portisch (Hungary)
3	1975	Portorož, Ljubljana	Anatoly Karpov (Soviet Union)
4	1977	Ljubljana, Portorož	Bent Larsen (Denmark)
5	1979	Bled, Portorož	Jan Timman (Netherlands)
6	1985	Portorož, Ljubljana	Lajos Portisch (Hungary), Zoltán Ribli (Hungary)
7	1987	Portorož, Ljubljana	Ivan Sokolov (Yugoslavia)
8	1989	Ljubljana, Rogaška Slatina	Predrag Nikolić (Yugoslavia)
9	1991	Bled, Rogaška Slatina	Predrag Nikolić (Yugoslavia)
10	1993	Portorož, Rogaška Slatina	Ivan Sokolov (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
11	1995	Ptuj (Zonal)	Stefan Kindermann (Germany)
12	1997	Portorož	Vadim Zviagintsev (Russia)
13	1999	Portorož	Alexander Beliavsky (Slovenia)
14	2001	Portorož	Alexander Beliavsky (Slovenia)
15	2003	Portorož	Alexander Beliavsky (Slovenia), Emil Sutovsky (Israel)
16	2005	Portorož	Alexander Beliavsky (Slovenia)
17	2007	Ljubljana	Duško Pavasovič (Slovenia)