2020 in chess

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
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
Gibraltar Chess Festival 2020	Swiss	21–30 January	David Paravyan	Wang Hao	Andrey Esipenko Daniil Yuffa
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]

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