List of round-robin chess tournaments explained

This is a list of chess round-robin tournaments.

Major present round-robin tournaments

• Candidates Tournament of the World Chess Championship (1950–1962, 1985, 2013–)
• Russian Chess Championship (most years)
• US Chess Championship (most years)
• Beverwijk and Wijk aan Zee (Corus & Tata Steel Chess Tournament)
• Sinquefield Cup
• Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (most years)
• Biel Chess Festival (most years)
• Norway Chess
• Shamkir Chess
• Capablanca Memorial (most years)

Major historic round-robin tournaments

• London (1862)
• Hastings (1895)
• Nuremberg (1896)
• Monte Carlo chess tournament (1901–1904, 1967–1969)
• Ostend (B) (1907)
• St. Petersburg (1909)
• San Sebastián (1911)
• Carlsbad (1911)
• Mannheim (1914)
• Carlsbad (1929)
• San Remo (1930)
• New York (1931)
• Nottingham (1936)
• Kemeri (1937)
• AVRO tournament (1938)
• General Government (1940–1944)
• Munich (1942)
• Groningen (1946)
• World Chess Championship 1948
• Interzonal of the World Chess Championship (most years, 1948–1993)
• USSR Chess Championship (most years)
• Linares International Chess Tournament (1981–2010)
• Reggio Emilia chess tournament
• World Chess Championship 2007
• Pearl Spring chess tournament (Nanjing, 2008)
• M-Tel Masters (Sofia)
• Tal Memorial (Moscow, 2009–2013)
• Bilbao Chess Masters Final
• Zurich Chess Challenge