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The Melody Amber chess tournament, which uniquely combines blindfold chess and speed chess is an annual invitation-only event for some of the world's best players. It has been held in Monte Carlo from 1992 onwards and is sponsored by the Dutch billionaire and world champion of correspondence chess, Joop van Oosterom. Named after his daughter, the tournament is usually held in March.

The player with the most titles (as of 2007) is Vladimir Kramnik (6).

Winners

#	Year	Overall Winner	Rapidplay Winner	Blindfold Winner
1	1992	Vassily Ivanchuk		(no blindfold)
2	1993	Ljubomir Ljubojević	Ljubomir Ljubojevic	Viswanathan Anand, Anatoly Karpov
3	1994	Viswanathan Anand	Viswanathan Anand Vladimir Kramnik	Viswanathan Anand
4	1995	Anatoly Karpov	Vladimir Kramnik	Anatoly Karpov
5	1996	Vladimir Kramnik	Viswanathan Anand Vassily Ivanchuk	Vladimir Kramnik
6	1997	Viswanathan Anand	Viswanathan Anand	Viswanathan Anand
7	1998	Alexei Shirov Vladimir Kramnik	Alexei Shirov Vassily Ivanchuk	Vladimir Kramnik
8	1999	Vladimir Kramnik	Viswanathan Anand	Alexei Shirov, Veselin Topalov, Vladimir Kramnik
9	2000	Alexei Shirov	Alexei Shirov	Vladimir Kramnik
10	2001	Vladimir Kramnik Veselin Topalov	Boris Gelfand Vladimir Kramnik	Veselin Topalov
11	2002	Alexander Morozevich	Boris Gelfand	Alexander Morozevich
12	2003	Viswanathan Anand	Evgeny Bareev	Vladimir Kramnik
13	2004	Alexander Morozevich Vladimir Kramnik	Viswanathan Anand	Alexander Morozevich
14	2005	Viswanathan Anand	Viswanathan Anand	Viswanathan Anand
15	2006	Viswanathan Anand Alexander Morozevich	Viswanathan Anand	Alexander Morozevich
16	2007	Vladimir Kramnik	Viswanathan Anand	Vladimir Kramnik
17	2008	Levon Aronian	Levon Aronian	Vladimir Kramnik, Levon Aronian, Alexander Morozevich, Veselin Topalov

Melody Amber 2006

The competitors in 2006 were the following players (world ranking at the time in brackets).

Veselin Topalov (2)
Viswanathan Anand (3) Speed chess winner, and joint overall winner.
Peter Svidler (4)
Levon Aronian (5)
Peter Leko (7)
Vassily Ivanchuk (8)
Boris Gelfand (9)
Alexander Morozevich (11) Blindfold chess winner, and joint overall winner.
Alexander Grischuk (12)
Francisco Vallejo Pons (54)
Loek van Wely (59)
Peter Heine Nielsen (66)

Melody Amber 2007

The competitors in 2007 were the following players (world ranking at the time in brackets).

Viswanathan Anand (2) Speed chess winner and second
Vladimir Kramnik (3) Blindfold chess winner and overall winner
Vassily Ivanchuk (5)
Peter Leko (6)
Levon Aronian (7)
Alexander Morozevich (8)
Boris Gelfand (10)
Teimour Radjabov (11)
Peter Svidler (12)
Magnus Carlsen (24)
Loek van Wely (26)
Francisco Vallejo Pons (29)

Melody Amber 2008

The 17th Amber Rapid and Blindfold Chess Tournament took place March 14th-28th, 2008 in Nice. The competitors were the following players (world ranking at the time in brackets).

Tournament books

Erik Bouwmans; et al, "Melody Amber Rapid Chess Tournament", Schaaknieuws, 1992, ISBN 90-73216-08-7
Dagobert Kohlmeyer and John Nunn, "Chess Roulette in Monte Carlo. 6th Amber Chess Tournament", Bock & Kübler, 1997, ISBN 3-86155-085-7
Dagobert Kohlmeyer and John Nunn, "Chess Rallye in Monte Carlo 98. 7th Amber Chess Tournament", Bock & Kübler, 1998, ISBN 3-86155-094-6

References

Crowther, Mark (29 March 1999), THE WEEK IN CHESS 229: The Eighth Amber Blindfold and Rapid Chess Tournament, London Chess Center

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