2020 in chess
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The 2020 chess calendar was disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, but major events that took place included the Tata Steel Chess Tournament, won by Fabiano Caruana, and Norway Chess, won by Magnus Carlsen. The Candidates began in March, but, due to the pandemic, was postponed at the half-way stage with Ian Nepomniachtchi and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave leading.
2020 tournaments[]
This is a list of significant 2020 chess tournaments:
Supertournaments[]
Tournament | System | Dates | Players (2700+) | Winner | Runner-up | Third |
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Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2020 | Round robin | 10–26 January | 14 (11) | Fabiano Caruana | Magnus Carlsen | Wesley So |
Tata Steel Challengers 2020 | Round robin | 10–26 January | 14 (0) | David Anton Guijarro | Nodirbek Abdusattorov | Pavel Eljanov |
2020 | Round robin | 12–21 February | 10 (6) | Alireza Firouzja | Vidit Santosh Gujrathi | Jan-Krzysztof Duda |
Biel Chess Festival 2020 | Round-robin | 18–29 July | 8 (4) | Radoslaw Wojtaszek | Pentala Harikrishna | Michael Adams |
Norway Chess 2020 | Round robin | 5–16 October | 6 (5) | Magnus Carlsen | Alireza Firouzja | Levon Aronian |
Russian Championship Superfinal 2020 | Round robin | 6–14 December | 11 (6) | Ian Nepomniachtchi | Sergey Karjakin | Vladimir Fedoseev |
Open events[]
Tournament | System | Dates | Winner | Runner-up | Third |
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Gibraltar Chess Festival 2020 | Swiss | 21–30 January | David Paravyan | Wang Hao | Andrey Esipenko |
Aeroflot Open 2020 | Swiss | 19–27 February | Aydin Suleymanli | Rinat Jumabayev | Rauf Mamedov |
Deaths[]
- February 28 — Gennady Kuzmin[1]
- March 5 — Stanislav Bogdanovich[2]
- April 20 — Arsen Yegiazarian[3]
- August 22 — Miron Sher[4]
- August 24 — Wolfgang Uhlmann[5]
- September 4 — Dmitry Svetushkin[6]
- November 1 — Markus Stangl[7]
- December 17 — Krzysztof Bulski[8]
References[]
- ^ Solomatin (Marignon), Yury. "Gennady Kuzmin, 1946-2020". Chess.com.
- ^ "Станислав Богданович и его девушка найдены мёртвыми | chess-news.ru". chess-news.ru.
- ^ "Մահացել է գրոսմայստեր Արսեն Եղիազարյանը". www.1lurer.am (in Armenian). Retrieved 2021-02-13.
- ^ Hartmann, John (2020-08-21). "GM Miron Sher (1952-2020)". US Chess.org. Retrieved 2021-02-13.
- ^ McClain, Dylan Loeb (2020-09-01). "Wolfgang Uhlmann, East Germany's Top Chess Player, Dies at 85". The New York Times. Retrieved 2021-02-13.
- ^ "GM Dmitry Svetushkin (1980-2020)". Chess News. 2020-09-11. Retrieved 2021-02-13.
- ^ "GM Markus Stangl verstorben". Schach Nachrichten (in German). 2020-11-02. Retrieved 2021-02-13.
- ^ "PZSzach - Polski Związek Szachowy" (in Polish). Retrieved 2021-02-13.
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