Linares International Chess Tournament

[1] At that time it was not an elite event and was won by the relatively unknown Swede Jaan Eslon, on tie-break from the Argentine Roberto Luis Debarnot).

Rentero was a strong opponent of short draws in chess, to the point that he offered cash bonuses for playing longer games.

It's said that participants in these so-called "grand master draws" were sometimes penalised by receiving no invitation for the next year's edition.

The field, in eventual finishing order, consisted of Karpov, Kasparov, Shirov, Bareev, Kramnik, Lautier, Anand, Kamsky, Topalov, Ivanchuk, Gelfand, Illescas, Judit Polgár, and Beliavsky.

[2] The 1994 tournament was also noted for an incident in which Garry Kasparov "took a move back" against Judit Polgár.

Only six players won the Linares Tournament multiple times: Garry Kasparov (9 wins), Vassily Ivanchuk (3), Viswanathan Anand (3), Vladimir Kramnik (2), Anatoly Karpov (2), and Larry Christiansen (2).

Hotel Anibal, Linares, Spain, 18 February - 3 March 1990 [12] Hotel Anibal, Linares, Spain, 23 February - 14 March 1991 [13] Final Results of 1998: Final Results of 1999:[14] FIDE World Champion Alexander Khalifman was a late replacement for Alexander Morozevich.