2006 in chess

Overview of the events of 2006 in chess

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Events in chess in 2006:

## Events

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### May

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* 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

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

### December

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* 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

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### Grandmasters

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

* Bassem Amin (b. 1988)  Egypt
* Levan Aroshidze (b. 1985)  Georgia
* David Arutinian (b. 1984)  Georgia
* Valeriy Aveskulov (b. 1986)  Ukraine
* Pascal Charbonneau (b. 1983)  Canada
* Paweł Czarnota (b. 1988)  Poland
* Chakkravarthy Deepan (b. 1987)  India
* Dzhakay Dzhakaev (b. 1980)  Russia
* Grzegorz Gajewski (b. 1985)  Poland
* José González García (b. 1973)  Mexico
* Andrey Gutov (b. 1978)  Russia
* Gennadij Ginsburg (b. 1971)  Germany
* Bartłomiej Heberla (b. 1985)  Poland
* Peter Horvath (b. 1972)  Hungary
* Alojzije Janković (b. 1983)  Croatia
* Radosław Jedynak (b. 1982)  Poland
* Zoran Jovanović (b. 1979)  Croatia

* Meelis Kanep (b. 1983)  Estonia
* Melikset Khachiyan (b. 1970)  United States
* Ibragim Khamrakulov (b. 1982)  Spain
* Aleksandr Kharitonov (b. 1986)  Russia
* Petr Kostenko (b. 1976)  Kazakhstan
* Tigran Kotanjian (b. 1981)  Armenia
* Sergei Krivoshey (b. 1971)  Ukraine
* Yuriy Kryvoruchko (b. 1986)  Ukraine
* Vitaly Kunin (b. 1983)  Germany
* Viktor Láznička (b. 1988)  Czechoslovakia
* Quang Liem Le (b. 1991)  Vietnam
* Constantin Lupulescu (b. 1984)  Romania
* Nidjat Mamedov (b. 1985)  Azerbaijan
* Mikulas Manik (b. 1975)  Slovenia
* Andrei Murariu (b. 1986)  Romania
* Das Neelotpal (b. 1982)  India
* Magesh Panchanathan (b. 1983)  India

* Eugene Perelshteyn (b. 1980)  United States
* Reefat Bin-Sattar (b. 1974)  Bangladesh
* Davor Rogic (b. 1971)  Croatia
* Andrey Rychagov (b. 1979)  Russia
* Bator Sambuev (b. 1980)  Russia
* Vasile Sanduleac (b. 1971)  Moldova
* Konstantine Shanava (b. 1985)  Georgia
* John Shaw (b. 1968)  Scotland
* Andrey Sumets (b. 1980)  Ukraine
* Jurij Tihonov (b. 1978)  Belarus
* Todor Todorov (b. 1974)  Bulgaria
* Marko Tratar (b. 1974)  Slovenia
* Yge Visser (b. 1963)  Netherlands
* Jan Werle (b. 1984)  Netherlands
* Andrey Zhigalko (b. 1985)  Belarus
* Zhou Jianchao (b. 1988)  China
* Yaroslav Zinchenko (b. 1987)  Ukraine

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### Woman Grandmaster

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

* Evgeniya Doluhanova (b. 1984)  Ukraine
* Marina Guseva (b. 1986)  Russia
* Anastasia Gutsko (b. 1985)  Ukraine
* Sopio Gvetadze (b. 1983)  Georgia
* Thi Bao Tram Hoang (b. 1987)  Vietnam
* Beata Kądziołka (b. 1986)  Poland

* Julia Kochetkova (b. 1981)  Russia
* Tatiana Kostiuk (b. 1982)  Ukraine
* Liubov Kostiukova (b. 1983)  Ukraine
* Lija Kucherova (b. 1986)  Russia
* Naira Movsisian (b. 1977)  Armenia
* Jessica Nill (b. 1979)  Germany

* Niina Sammalvuo (b. 1971)  Finland
* Anna Sharevich (b. 1985)  Belarus
* Shen Yang (b. 1989)  China
* Elena Tairova (1991–2010)  Russia
* Carmen Voicu (b. 1981)  Romania

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## Births

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* March 13 – Leon Luke Mendonca[9]
* May 29 – Gukesh D

## Deaths

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* 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

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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, archived from the original on 2007-09-05, 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. ^ "Title Application - GrantMaster(2500) to be awarded to: Mendonca" (PDF). All India Chess Federation. 2021-01-18.

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