Being the record of winners of the Keres Memorial Tournament, held annually, usually in May, in the region of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Event zero is Vancouver 1975, the last tournament of the great Paul Keres, before his tragic death a few days later.
| # | Year | Winner | Score | Rds | Players |
| 0 | 1975 | GM Paul Keres (tournament name: Vancouver 1975) | 8½ | 10 | 320 |
| 1 | 1976 | GM James Tarjan | 9 | 10 | 210 |
| 2 | 1977 | IM John Watson | 9 | 10 | 99 |
| 3 | 1978 | Robert Zuk | 6 | 7 | 126 |
| 4 | 1979 | IM John Grefe, GM Peter Biyiasas, James McCormick | 5½ | 7 | 97 |
| 5 | 1980 | Viktors Pupols | 5½ | 7 | 154 |
| 6 | 1981 | IM John Donaldson, Ray Fasano | 5½ | 7 | 180 |
| 7 | 1982 | IM John Donaldson, IM Eric Tangborn | 5 | 6 | 142 |
| 8 | 1983 | IM John Donaldson | 5½ | 6 | 132 |
| 9 | 1984 | IM Leon Piasetski, Gordon Taylor, IM Jeremy Silman, Robert Zuk | 4½ | 6 | 121 |
| 10 | 1985 | IM John Donaldson, Lionel Joyner, John Braley | 5½ | 6 | 151 |
| 11 | 1986 | GM Kevin Spraggett | 6 | 7 | 144 |
| 12 | 1987 | IM Tom O'Donnell | 6 | 7 | 138 |
| 13 | 1988 | GM Kevin Spraggett, Alex Kuznecov | 5½ | 7 | 174 |
| 14 | 1989 | Juri Vetemaa | 6 | 7 | 159 |
| 15 | 1990 | IM John Donaldson, Jonathan Berry | 4½ | 6 | 125 |
| 16 | 1991 | GM Lubomir Ftacnik | 5 | 6 | 97 |
| 17 | 1992 | GM Lubomir Ftacnik | 5½ | 6 | 98 |
| 18 | 1993 | GM Igor Stohl | 6½ | 7 | 93 |
| 19 | 1994 | Jonathan Berry, Juri Vetemaa, Gary Basanta | 5½ | 7 | 89 |
| 20 | 1995 | John Hallam, Juri Vetemaa, IM Yan Teplitsky | 5½ | 7 | 97 |
| 21 | 1996 | IM Georgi Orlov | 5 | 6 | 69 |
| 22 | 1997 | IM Yan Teplitsky | 6 | 7 | 73 |
| 23 | 1998 | GM Kevin Spraggett | 6½ | 7 | 103 |
| 24 | 1999 | IM Yan Teplitsky, IM Georgi Orlov, Jack Yoos | 5½ | 7 | 105 |
| 25 | 2000 | GM Vladimir Epishin | 8½ | 10 | 77 |
| 26 | 2001 | IM Georgi Orlov | 6 | 7 | 104 |
| 27 | 2002 | Fanhao Meng, IM Georgi Orlov, Jack Yoos, Besnik Beqo | 5½ | 7 | 108 |
| 28 | 2003 | IM Georgi Orlov | 7 | 7 | 101 |
| 29 | 2004 | IM Georgi Orlov | 6½ | 7 | 100 |
| 30 | 2005 | Jack Yoos | 6 | 7 | 87 |
| 31 | 2006 | Alfred Pechisker | 5½ | 7 | 77 |
| 32 | 2007 | IM Georgi Orlov | 6 | 7 | 79 |
| 33 | 2008 | IM Georgi Orlov, Bindi Cheng | 5½ | 7 | 79 |
| 34 | 2009 | Jack Yoos | 6 | 7 | 70 |
| 35 | 2010 | Jack Yoos, WGM Katerina Rohonyan, GM Manuel Rivas, IM Georgi Orlov, Roman Jiganchine | 4½ | 6 | 84 |
| 36 | 2011 | Maxim Doroshenko, IM Georgi Orlov | 5½ | 7 | 74 |
| 37 | 2012 | May | 7 | ? |
Click on the tournament number at the left (e.g. 26) to see the online crosstable of the Open section at the CFC website, or in the excellent Internet Archive of the Wayback Machine. If it doesn't work today, it might work tomorrow. Archived material can be like that.
Titles (IM, GM) are current ones, not necessarily the ones held at the time.
| Orlov | 81 |
| Donaldson | 34 |
| Yoos | 33 |
| Spraggett | 30 |
| Ftacnik | 24 |
| Teplitsky | 20 |
| Vetemaa | 20 |
| Zuk | 15 |
| Keres | 12 |
| O'Donnell | 12 |
| Pechisker | 12 |
| Pupols | 12 |
| Stohl | 12 |
| Tarjan | 12 |
| Watson | 12 |
| Epishin | 12 |
| Berry | 10 |
| Doroshenko | 6 |
| Cheng | 6 |
| Fasano | 6 |
| Kuznecov | 6 |
| Tangborn | 6 |
| Basanta | 4 |
| Biyiasas | 4 |
| Braley | 4 |
| Grefe | 4 |
| Hallam | 4 |
| Joyner | 4 |
| McCormick | 4 |
| Piasetski | 3 |
| Silman | 3 |
| Taylor | 3 |
| Meng | 3 |
| Beqo | 3 |
| Rohonyan | 2 |
| Rivas | 2 |
| Jiganchine | 2 |
Just for fun, if you give each event 12 points, and divide them equally for tied victory, here are the historic leaders. No points for second place! 2010: Partly due to only 6 rounds, this year there was a five-way tie for first, impossible to divide the 12 points equally as natural numbers. Rather than recalculate based on 60, I've rounded to 2 points each.
RIP Juri Vetemaa 26.08.1956 - 16.07.2003 and Ray Fasano, Keres Memorial winners.
For more information about the Keres Memorial, see the Keres Memorial section of the BCCF website, www.chess.bc.ca. At this writing (March 2009), that section only goes up to 2006. This morning I received a complaint from a player that I kicked him from the 2000 tournament and told him that it was over after six rounds and that his performance was not rated by the CFC. But the records, including CFC rating, show he played all 10 games of that year's schedule. Hmm. The silver lining is that researching the complaint prompted me to correct links on this page. Correcting broken links is the most tedious and labour-intensive part of web site maintenance. No, the guy didn't say that he got his info from this page. CFC rating pages have been undergoing flux, so for most of the above I've used the Wayback Machine of archive.org, a fabulous resource. The links are always to the Open (top) section of the Keres, but I did happen to look up this one as well:
Results from 1993 to 1996 were difficult to find, because for no obvious reason the Chess Federation of Canada stopped covering the tournament during those years. A big change from 1975, when they published the complete crosstable of every section.
Attendance suffered a big dip in 1991 when the rent at Robson Square Media Centre went way up and the tournament had to move elsewhere. The tournament has seen many locations since, some as far away as Richmond or as exotic as New Westminster.
URL: This web page is:
http://members.shaw.ca/berry5868/kh.htm
Last modified June 30, 2011