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The Candidates Tournament was a triannual chess tournament organized by the world chess federation FIDE as the final contest to determine the challenger for the World Chess Championship. The tournament field consisted of eight players. The top six finishers in the Interzonal tournaments qualified, and the top two finishers from the previous Candidates tournament were seeded. Before 1965, the tournament was organized in a round-robin format. From 1965 on, the tournament was played as knockout matches.

The Candidates tournaments were discontinued after 1992.

Location and winners

1950 - Budapest - David Bronstein
1953 - Zurich - Vasily Smyslov
1956 - Amsterdam - Vasily Smyslov
1959 - Bled, Zagreb, and Belgrade - Mikhail Tal
1962 - Curacao - Tigran Petrosian
1965 - Boris Spassky
1968 - Boris Spassky
1971 - Robert James Fischer
1974 - Anatoly Karpov
1977 - Viktor Korchnoi
1980 - Viktor Korchnoi
1983 - Garry Kasparov
1986 - Montpellier - Anatoly Karpov
1989 - Anatoly Karpov
1992 - Nigel Short

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