2006 in chess

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Events in chess in 2006:

Events[]

May[]

  • May 5 – The world's oldest living Grandmaster, Andor Lilienthal, celebrates his 95th birthday. In his career Lilienthal played World Champions Emanuel Lasker, José Raúl Capablanca, Alexander Alekhine, and Mikhail Botvinnik.[1]

October[]

  • Vladimir Kramnik (Russia) defeats Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria) in the 2006 World Championship title unification match to become undisputed world champion.

December[]

  • December 26 – The All India Chess Federation imposes a ten-year ban on Umakant Sharma for using a Bluetooth device sewn into his cap to gain assistance from a chess computer during a FIDE rated tournament in Delhi.[2][3]
  • December 29 – 44th Indian Chess Championship (National "A" Championship) in Atul won by GM Surya Shekhar Ganguly for the fourth consecutive year with the score 9/13. The tournament format was changed to a 13-round Swiss instead of the 22 player round-robin used previously.[4]
  • December 30 – Iranian Chess Championship in Tehran won by GM Ehsan Ghaem Maghami at 8.5/11. The women's champion is WGM Shadi Paridar scoring 9.5/11.[5]

Titles awarded[]

Grandmasters[]

In 2006 FIDE awarded the title of Grandmaster to the following players:[6][7][8]

Woman Grandmaster[]

In 2006 FIDE awarded the title Woman Grandmaster to the following players:[6][7][8]

Births[]

Deaths[]

  • January 15 – Herbert Avram (1913–2006), 92, United States.
  • May 13 - Ratmir Kholmov (1925–2006), 80, Soviet/Russian Grandmaster.
  • May 13 – Burt Hochberg (1933–2006), 73, chess writer and editor, editor of Chess Life.
  • May 20 – Wolfgang Unzicker (1925–2006), 80, German Grandmaster, "world champion of amateurs".
  • July 2 – René Letelier (1915–2006), 91, Chilean International Master.
  • July 14 – Aleksander Wojtkiewicz (1963–2006), 43, Polish Grandmaster.
  • July 23 – Rudolf Teschner (1922–2006), 84, German Grandmaster and chess writer.
  • July 26 – Jessie Gilbert (1987–2006), 19, English Woman FIDE Master.
  • August 14 – Adriaan de Groot (1914–2006), 92, Dutch chess master and psychologist.
  • November 29 – Krystyna Hołuj-Radzikowska (1931–2006), 75, Polish Woman Grandmaster.
  • December 5 – David Bronstein (1924–2006), 82, Soviet/Ukrainian Grandmaster and renowned chess writer, challenger in the 1951 World Championship match.

References[]

  1. ^ Anzikeev, Vladimir (May 2006), "The Last of the Chess Mohicans", 64, retrieved 2008-03-15
  2. ^ Keizer, Gregg (27 December 2006), "Chess Player Banned 10 Years For Cheating With Bluetooth, Computer", InformationWeek, retrieved 2008-01-25
  3. ^ "Umakant Sharma banned for 10 years", The Hindu, Chennai, India, 27 December 2006, archived from the original on 5 January 2007, retrieved 2008-01-25
  4. ^ Zaveri, Praful (5 January 2007), "Indian National Championship won by Surya Ganguly", ChessBase News, retrieved 2008-01-25
  5. ^ Akbarinia, Arash (5 January 2007), "Iranian Chess championships and talents", ChessBase News, retrieved 2008-01-25
  6. ^ a b Titles Approved by FIDE Presidential Board, Al Ain 2006 Archived 2007-08-26 at the Wayback Machine from fide.com
  7. ^ a b Titles approved at 77th FIDE Congress. Archived 2007-06-07 at the Wayback Machine from fide.com
  8. ^ a b Titles confirmed by the 3rd quarter Presidential Board 2006 Archived 2006-10-18 at the Wayback Machine from fide.com
  9. ^ https://ratings.fide.com/crt/main228910.pdf
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