FIDE Candidates: Full list of winners from 1950 to 2022 in open category

Over the years, the tournament has produced some memorable contests, while boasting of several high-profile winners. Here is the full list of Candidates winners in the open category.

Bobby Fischer won the 1971 Candidates and went on to beat Boris Spassky in the historic 1972 World Chess Championship final. | Photo Credit: Getty Images

The Candidates tournament came into existence in 1950 as a qualifying tournament for the World Chess Championship final.

Over the years, the tournament has produced some memorable contests, while boasting of several high-profile winners.

The latest edition of the Candidates will happen in Toronto, Canada from April 4.

Here is the list of all Candidates winners in open category

• 1950 - David Bronstein
• 1953 - Vasily Smyslov
• 1956 - Vasily Smyslov
• 1959 - Mikhail Tal
• 1962 - Tigran Petrosian
• 1965 - Boris Spassky
• 1968 - Boris Spassky
• 1971 - Bobby Fischer
• 1974 - Anatoly Karpov
• 1977 - Victor Korchnoi
• 1980 - Victor Korchnoi
• 1983 - Garry Kasparov
• 1987 - Anatoly Karpov
• 1990 - Anatoly Karpov
• 1993 - Nigel Short
• 1995 - Viswanathan Anand
• 1997 - 2005 - Split Era
• 2007 - Top four qualified for eight-player World Championship final
• 2009 - Veselin Topalov
• 2011 - Boris Gelfand
• 2013 - Magnus Carlsen
• 2014 - Viswanathan Anand
• 2016 - Sergey Karjakin
• 2018 - Fabiano Caruana
• 2020-21 - Ian Nepomniachtchi
• 2022 - Ian Nepomniachtchi