2019 in chess
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Major chess events that took place in 2019 include the Tata Steel, Shamkir Chess, Grenke Chess Classic and Norway Chess, all won by World Champion Magnus Carlsen.
Events[]
December 12 – The United Nations General Assembly approves a resolution designating July 20 as "World Chess Day", marking the date of the establishment of the International Chess Federation (FIDE) in Paris on July 20, 1924.[1]
2019 tournaments[]
Supertournaments[]
Tournament | City | System | Dates | Players (2700+) | Winner | Runner-up | Third |
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Tata Steel Masters | Wijk aan Zee | Round robin | 12–27 January | 14 (12) | Magnus Carlsen | Anish Giri | Ian Nepomniachtchi |
Tata Steel Challengers | Wijk aan Zee | Round robin | 12–27 January | 14 (0) | Vladislav Kovalev | Andrey Esipenko | Benjamin Gledura |
Prague | Round robin | 6–15 March | 10 (8) | Nikita Vitiugov | Vidit Gujrathi | Radoslaw Wojtaszek | |
Shamkir Chess | Shamkir | Round robin | 31 March – 9 April | 10 (10) | Magnus Carlsen | Ding Liren | Sergey Karjakin |
Shenzhen Masters | Shenzhen | Round robin | 17–April | 6 (6) | Anish Giri | Pentala Harikrishna | Ding Liren |
Grenke Chess Classic | Baden-Baden | Round robin | 20–29 April | 10 (6) | Magnus Carlsen | Fabiano Caruana | Arkadij Naiditsch |
Norway Chess | Stavanger | Round robin | 4–15 June | 10 (10) | Magnus Carlsen | Levon Aronian | Yu Yangyi |
Poykovsky | Round robin | 6–15 June | 10 (3) | Vladislav Artemiev | Dmitry Jakovenko | Ivan Saric | |
Netanya | Round robin | 23 June – 2 July | 10 (3) | Boris Gelfand | Leinier Dominguez | Pavel Eljanov | |
Croatia Grand Chess Tour | Zagreb | Round robin | 26 June – 8 July | 12 (12) | Magnus Carlsen | Wesley So | Levon Aronian |
Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting | Dortmund | Round robin | 13–21 July | 8 (5) | Leinier Dominguez | Ian Nepomniachtchi | Radoslaw Wojtaszek |
Biel Chess Festival | Biel | Round robin | 21–30 July | 8 (2) | Vidit Gujrathi | Sam Shankland | Peter Leko |
Sinquefield Cup | St. Louis | Round robin | 17–29 August | 12 (12) | Ding Liren | Magnus Carlsen | Viswanathan Anand |
London Chess Classic | London | Knockout | 2–8 December | 4 (4) | Ding Liren | Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | Magnus Carlsen |
Open events[]
Tournament | City | System | Dates | Players | Winner | Runner-up | Third |
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Gibraltar Chess Festival | Gibraltar | Swiss | 21–31 January | 252 | Vladislav Artemiev | Karthikeyan Murali | Nikita Vitiugov |
Aeroflot Open | Moscow | Swiss | 18–28 February | 101 | Kaido Külaots | Haik Martirosyan | Krishnan Sasikiran |
European Individual Chess Championship | Skopje | Swiss | 18–29 March | 361 | Vladislav Artemiev | Nils Grandelius | Kacper Piorun |
Reykjavik Open | Reykjavik | Swiss | 8–16 April | 238 | Constantin Lupulescu | Alireza Firouzja | Nils Grandelius |
GRENKE Chess Open | Karlsruhe | Swiss | 18–22 April | 904 | Daniel Fridman | Anton Korobov | Andreas Heimann |
World Open | Philadelphia | Swiss | 2–7 July | 227 | Le Quang Liem | Jeffery Xiong | Hrant Melkumyan |
Riga Technical University Open | Riga | Swiss | 5–11 August | 275 | Igor Kovalenko | Sarunas Sulskis | Arman Mikaelyan |
FIDE Events[]
Team events[]
Tournament | City | System | Dates | Teams | Winner | Runner-up | Third |
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World Team Chess Championship | Astana | Round robin | 5–14 March | 10 | Russia | England | China |
Women's World Team Chess Championship | Astana | Round robin | 5–14 March | 10 | China | Russia | Georgia |
European Team Chess Championship | Batumi | Round robin | 23 October – 3 November | 40 | Russia | Ukraine | England |
Women's European Team Chess Championship | Batumi | Round robin | 23 October – 3 November | 32 | Russia | Georgia | Azerbaijan |
Rapid & Blitz Tournaments[]
Tournament | City | System | Dates | Players | Winner | Runner-up | Third |
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Norway Chess Blitz Tournament | Stavanger | Round robin | 3 June | 10 | Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | Levon Aronian | Magnus Carlsen |
Lindores | Round robin | 25–26 May | 4 | Magnus Carlsen | Ding Liren | Sergey Karjakin | |
Abidjan Rapid & Blitz | Abidjan | Round robin | 8–12 May | 10 | Magnus Carlsen | Hikaru Nakamura | Maxime Vachier-Lagrave |
Paris Rapid & Blitz | Paris | Round robin | 27 July – 1 August | 10 | Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | Viswanathan Anand | Ian Nepomniachtchi |
Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz | St. Louis | Round robin | 10–August | 10 | Levon Aronian | Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | Ding Liren |
Superbet Rapid & Blitz | Bucharest | Round robin | 6–10 November | 10 | Levon Aronian | Sergey Karjakin | Viswanathan Anand |
Tata Steel Rapid & Blitz | Kolkatta | Round robin | 8–12 May | 10 | Magnus Carlsen | Hikaru Nakamura | Anish Giri |
Deaths[]
- Tamar Khmiadashvili, a Georgian Woman Grandmaster with multiple wins in the Georgian Women's Championship and Women's World Senior Championship.
- 7 January. Khosro Harandi, first Iranian International Master and three-time winner of the Iranian Chess Championship, dies at age 87.
- 31 March. Eva Moser, Austria's first Woman Grandmaster and in 2006 became the first woman to win the absolute Austrian Chess Championship, dies at age 36.
- 6 July. Ragnar Hoen, Norwegian FIDE Master who won the Norwegian Chess Championship in 1963, 1978, and 1981, dies at age 78.
- 11 August. Shelby Lyman, American chess player and teacher, dies at age 82.
- 26 August. Pal Benko, Hungarian-American Grandmaster, author and composer of endgame studies, dies at age 91.[2]
- September 5. , Croatian Grandmaster, dies at age 56.[3][4]
- 11 September. Zbigniew Szymczak, Polish International Master and Polish chess champion in 1983, dies at age 67.
- 9 September. Yoel Aloni, Israeli chess player and problemist, dies at age 90.
- 23 September. Harri Hurme, Finnish FIDE Master and International Solving Master, dies at age 74.
- 30 December. Beatriz Alfonso Nogue, Spanish Woman FIDE Master, dies at age 51.
References[]
- ^ UN adopts July 20 as World Chess Day, FIDE, 13 December 2019, retrieved 2 May 2020
- ^ McClain, Dylan Loeb (August 26, 2019). "Pal Benko, who stepped aside for Bobby Fischer, dies at 91". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on August 28, 2019. Retrieved January 26, 2020.
- ^ International Chess Federation [@FIDE_Chess] (8 September 2019). "Croatian GM Nenad Sulava passed away on September 5" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ International Chess Federation (6 September 2019), Nenad Sulava dies at 56, retrieved 26 January 2020
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