Notable Tournament Victories
- 1986 Arab-Asian International Chess Championship 1st
- 1987 Sakthi Finance Grandmasters Chess Tournament 1st
- 1988 51st Hoogovens Chess Tournament, Wijk aan Zee 1st
- 1989 2nd Asian Active Chess Championship, Hong Kong 1st
- 1990 Asian Zonal Championship Gold Medal
- 1990 Manchester Chess Festival, Manchester 1st
- 1990 Triveni Super Grandmasters Tournament, Delhi Joint 1st
- 1991 World Chess Championship, Brussels Quarter Finalist
- 1992 Reggio Emilia Chess Tournament, Reggio Emilia 1st
- 1992 Goodrich Open International Tournament, Calcutta 1st
- 1992 Linares match Anand vs Vassily Ivanchuk 5:3
- 1992 Alekhine Memorial, Moscow
- 1993 PCA Interzonal, Groningen 1st
- 1994 Melody Amber Tournament, Monaco 1st
- 1994 World Championship Candidates Cycle, Linares
- 1994 PCA Grand Prix, Moscow 1st
- 1995 PCA Candidates Final, Las Palmas
- 1996 Dortmunder Schachtage, Dortmund (Joint 1st with Kramnik)
- 1996 Credit Swiss Rapid Chess Grand Prix, Geneva 1st
- 1996 Torneo Magistral de Ajedrez, Leon
- 1997 Torneo de Ajedrex, Dos Hermanes 1st.
- 1997 Melody Amber Tournament, Monaco 1st
- 1997 Aegon Man vs Computers chess event won 4:2
- 1997 Chess Classic Rapid Tournament, Frankfurt
- 1997 Invesbanka Chess tournament, Belgrade 1st
- 1997 Credit Suisse Classic Tournament, Biel 1st
- 1997 Knock-Out Championship, Groningen
- 1998 FIDE World Chess Championship Finalist
- 1998 60th Hoogoven's Schaak Tornoi, Wijk aan Zee 1st
- 1998 Torneo International De Ajedrez, Linares 1st
- 1998 Torneo Magitral Communidad De Madrid, Madrid 1st
- 1998 Siemens Nixdorf Duell (Rapid), Frankfurt 1st
- 1998 Fontys-Tilburg International Chess Tournament 1st
- 1999 Wydra Memorial Chess (Rapid), Haifa 1st
- 1999 Torneo Magistral de Ajedrez, Leon beat Karpov 5:1
- 2000 Wydra International Tournament (Rapid), Haifa 1st
- 2000 Torneo Magistral de Ajedrez, Leon beat Shirov 1½:½
- 2000 Fujitsu Siemens Giants Chess (Rapid), Frankfurt 1st
- 2000 Corsica Masters (Rapid), Corsica 1st
- 2003 65th Corus Chess Tournament, Wijk aan Zee 1st
- 2004 66th Corus Chess Tournament, Wijk aan Zee 1st
- 2006 68th Corus Chess Tournament, Wijk aan Zee (Joint 1st with Topalov)
- 2007 Linares Chess Tournament, Linares 1st
- 2007 FIDE World Championship Tournament, Mexico City 1st
- 2008 Linares Chess Tournament, Linares 1st
- 2011 Leon Chess Tournament, beat Shirov 4½:1½ (8th win in this tournament)
- 2011 Botvinnik Memorial, Moscow, 1st
- 2011 Corsica Masters Knockout (Rapid), Corsica 1st
- 2012 FIDE World Chess Championship 2012 1st (4th consecutive win in this tournament)
- 2012 World Championship crown,Russia, beating Boris Gelfand of Israel.
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