Winners
- 1978 Jaan Eslon
- 1979 Larry Christiansen
- 1981 Anatoly Karpov and Larry Christiansen
- 1983 Boris Spassky
- 1985 Ljubomir Ljubojević and Robert Hübner
- 1988 Jan Timman
- 1989 Vassily Ivanchuk
- 1990 Garry Kasparov
- 1991 Vassily Ivanchuk
- 1992 Garry Kasparov
- 1993 Garry Kasparov
- 1994 Anatoly Karpov (Category XVIII tournament)
- 1995 Vassily Ivanchuk
- 1997 Garry Kasparov
- 1998 Viswanathan Anand
- 1999 Garry Kasparov
- 2000 Vladimir Kramnik and Garry Kasparov
- 2001 Garry Kasparov
- 2002 Garry Kasparov
- 2003 Péter Lékó (Joint winner with Vladimir Kramnik; but had a better tiebreak score)
- 2004 Vladimir Kramnik
- 2005 Garry Kasparov (with the same score as Veselin Topalov; won on tiebreak because of more wins with black)
- 2006 Levon Aronian
- 2007 Viswanathan Anand
- 2008 Viswanathan Anand
- 2009 Alexander Grischuk (with the same score as Vassily Ivanchuk; won on tiebreak because of more wins)
- 2010 Veselin Topalov
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