2018 in chess

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Major chess events that took place in 2018 included the Candidates Tournament, won by Fabiano Caruana, who earned the right to challenge Magnus Carlsen in the World Chess Championship 2018. Magnus Carlsen won the match on tiebreaks and retained the title of World Chess Champion. There were two Women's World Chess Championship events; the first a match held in May between Ju Wenjun and Tan Zhongyi, won by Ju Wenjun, and the second, held in November, a 64-player knockout tournament where Ju Wenjun defended her title.

2018 tournaments[]

This is a list of 15 significant 2018 chess tournaments:

Tournament System Dates Players (2700+) Winner Runner-up Third
Tata Steel Chess Tournament Round robin 12–28 Jan 14 (11) Norway Magnus Carlsen Netherlands Anish Giri Russia Vladimir Kramnik
Gibraltar Chess Festival Swiss 23 Jan – 1 Feb 276 (12) Armenia Levon Aronian France Maxime Vachier-Lagrave United States Hikaru Nakamura
Candidates Tournament 2018 Round robin 10–28 Mar 8 (8) United States Fabiano Caruana Azerbaijan Shakhriyar Mamedyarov Russia Sergey Karjakin
Grenke Chess Classic 2018 Round robin 31 Mar – 9 Apr 10 (7) United States Fabiano Caruana Norway Magnus Carlsen France Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
Russia Nikita Vitiugov
Shamkir Chess 2018 Round robin 18–28 Apr 10 (10) Norway Magnus Carlsen China Ding Liren Russia Sergey Karjakin
Women's World Chess Championship 2018 (match) Match 2–20 May 2 (0) China Ju Wenjun China Tan Zhongyi
Norway Chess 2018 Round robin 27 May – 7 Jun 10 (10) United States Fabiano Caruana Norway Magnus Carlsen United States Hikaru Nakamura
Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting 2018 Round robin 14–22 Jul 8 (5) Russia Ian Nepomniachtchi Netherlands Anish Giri Belarus Vladislav Kovalev
Biel Chess Festival 2018[1][better source needed] Round robin 22 Jul – 1 Aug 6 (5) Azerbaijan Shakhriyar Mamedyarov Norway Magnus Carlsen France Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
Sinquefield Cup 2018 Round robin 18–28 Aug 10 (10) Norway Magnus Carlsen
United States Fabiano Caruana
Armenia Levon Aronian
43rd Chess Olympiad (open event) Swiss 23 Sep – 6 Oct teams  China  United States  Russia
43rd Chess Olympiad (women event) Swiss 23 Sep – 6 Oct teams  China  Ukraine  Georgia
Women's World Chess Championship 2018 (tournament) Knockout 2–23 Nov 64 China Ju Wenjun Russia Kateryna Lagno Ukraine Mariya Muzychuk
Russia Alexandra Kosteniuk
World Chess Championship 2018 Match 9–28 Nov 2 (2) Norway Magnus Carlsen
United States Fabiano Caruana
London Chess Classic 2018 Knockout 11–17 Dec 4 (4) United States Hikaru Nakamura France Maxime Vachier-Lagrave United States Fabiano Caruana

Transfer[]

Chessplayer From which Whither
José González García  Mexico  Spain
 [ru]  Bulgaria  Denmark
Alexei Shirov  Latvia  Spain

Deaths[]

  • Robert Abbott (2 March 1933 – 20 February 2018), American game designer and chess variant creator.
  • Peggy Clarke (29 October 1937 – 15 September 2018), British Women's Champion in 1966.
  • Roberto Luis Debarnot (5 August 1947 – 25 May 2018), Argentine International Master and three-time Olympian.
  • Győző Forintos (30 July 1935 – 5 December 2018), Hungarian Grandmaster, chess writer and six-time Olympian.
  • Giam Choo Kwee (7 May 1942 – 13 August 2018), Singaporean International Master, four-time Olympian, and two-time Singapore Chess Champion.
  • Ruth Haring (23 January 1955 – 29 November 2018), American chess Woman International Master and five-time Olympian.
  • Nino Khurtsidze (28 September 1975 – 22 April 2018), Georgian International Master and Woman Grandmaster, five-time Olympian, Georgian Champion in 1998, and five-time Georgian Women's Champion.
  • Stefán Kristjánsson (8 December 1982 – 28 February 2018), Icelandic Grandmaster and five-time Olympian.[2]
  • Aloyzas Kveinys (9 July 1962 – 26 July 2018), Lithuanian Grandmaster and eight-time Olympian.
  • Milunka Lazarević (1 December 1932 – 15 December 2018), Serbian chess player and journalist.
  • Anatoly Lein (28 March 1931 – 1 March 2018), Soviet and American Grandmaster.
  • Erwin Nievergelt (29 April 1929 — 4 August 2018), Swiss Olympian in 1954 and 1958.
  • Eric Schiller (20 March 1955 – 3 November 2018), American FIDE Master and chess author.
  • Philip Short (15 May 1960 – 31 August 2018), Irish FIDE Master and five-time Irish Champion.
  • Evgeni Vasiukov (5 March 1933 – 10 May 2018), Soviet Grandmaster and 1995 World Senior Champion.

References[]

  1. ^ Doggers (PeterDoggers), Peter. "Carlsen Finishes 2nd Behind Mamedyarov In Biel". Chess.com.
  2. ^ Brynjólfur Þór Guðmundsson (1 March 2018). "Stefán Kristjánsson látinn". ruv.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 24 March 2018.


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