2019 in chess

Overview of the events of 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[edit]

12 December – The United Nations General Assembly approves a resolution designating 20 July as "World Chess Day", marking the date of the establishment of the International Chess Federation (FIDE) in Paris on 20 July 1924.[1]

## 2019 tournaments[edit]

### Supertournaments[edit]

Tournament | City | System | Dates | Players (2700+) | Winner | Runner-up | Third

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Tata Steel Masters |  Wijk aan Zee | Round robin | 12–27 Jan | 14 (12) |  Magnus Carlsen |  Anish Giri |  Ian Nepomniachtchi
Tata Steel Challengers |  Wijk aan Zee | Round robin | 12–27 Jan | 14 (0) |  Vladislav Kovalev |  Andrey Esipenko |  Benjamin Gledura
Prague Chess Festival |  Prague | Round robin | 6–15 Mar | 10 (8) |  Nikita Vitiugov |  Vidit Gujrathi |  Radosław Wojtaszek
Shamkir Chess |  Shamkir | Round robin | 31 Mar – 9 Apr | 10 (10) |  Magnus Carlsen |  Ding Liren |  Sergey Karjakin
Shenzhen Masters |  Shenzhen | Round robin | 17–Apr | 6 (6) |  Anish Giri |  Pentala Harikrishna |  Ding Liren
Grenke Chess Classic |  Baden-Baden | Round robin | 20–29 Apr | 10 (6) |  Magnus Carlsen |  Fabiano Caruana |  Arkadij Naiditsch
Norway Chess |  Stavanger | Round robin | 4–15 Jun | 10 (10) |  Magnus Carlsen |  Levon Aronian |  Yu Yangyi
Poykovsky Chess Tournament |  Poykovsky | Round robin | 6–15 Jun | 10 (3) |  Vladislav Artemiev |  Dmitry Jakovenko |  Ivan Šarić
Netanya International Chess Festival |  Netanya | Round robin | 23 Jun – 2 Jul | 10 (3) |  Boris Gelfand |  Leinier Domínguez |  Pavel Eljanov
Croatia Grand Chess Tour |  Zagreb | Round robin | 26 Jun – 8 Jul | 12 (12) |  Magnus Carlsen |  Wesley So |  Levon Aronian
Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting |  Dortmund | Round robin | 13–21 Jul | 8 (5) |  Leinier Domínguez |  Ian Nepomniachtchi |  Radosław Wojtaszek
Biel Chess Festival |  Biel | Round robin | 21–30 Jul | 8 (2) |  Vidit Gujrathi |  Sam Shankland |  Peter Leko
Sinquefield Cup |  St. Louis | Round robin | 17–29 Aug | 12 (12) |  Ding Liren |  Magnus Carlsen |  Viswanathan Anand
London Chess Classic |  London | Knockout | 2–8 Dec | 4 (4) |  Ding Liren |  Maxime Vachier-Lagrave |  Magnus Carlsen

### Open events[edit]

Tournament | City | System | Dates | Players | Winner | Runner-up | Third

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Gibraltar Chess Festival |  Gibraltar | Swiss | 21–31 Jan | 252 |  Vladislav Artemiev |  Karthikeyan Murali |  Nikita Vitiugov
Aeroflot Open |  Moscow | Swiss | 18–28 Feb | 101 |  Kaido Külaots |  Haik Martirosyan |  Krishnan Sasikiran
European Individual Chess Championship |  Skopje | Swiss | 18–29 Mar | 361 |  Vladislav Artemiev |  Nils Grandelius |  Kacper Piorun
Reykjavik Open |  Reykjavík | Swiss | 8–16 Apr | 238 |  Constantin Lupulescu |  Alireza Firouzja |  Nils Grandelius
GRENKE Chess Open |  Karlsruhe | Swiss | 18–22 Apr | 904 |  Daniel Fridman |  Anton Korobov |  Andreas Heimann
World Open |  Philadelphia | Swiss | 2–7 Jul | 227 |  Lê Quang Liêm |  Jeffery Xiong |  Hrant Melkumyan
Riga Technical University Open |  Riga | Swiss | 5–11 Aug | 275 |  Igor Kovalenko |  Šarūnas Šulskis |  Arman Mikaelyan

### FIDE Events[edit]

Tournament | City | System | Dates | Players | Winner | Runner-up | Third

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FIDE Grand Prix Moscow |  Moscow | Knockout | 16–30 May | 16 |  Ian Nepomniachtchi |  Alexander Grischuk |  Radosław Wojtaszek
Hikaru Nakamura
FIDE Grand Prix Riga |  Riga | Knockout | 12–24 Jul | 16 |  Shakhriyar Mamedyarov |  Maxime Vachier-Lagrave |  Alexander Grischuk
Wesley So
FIDE Grand Prix Hamburg |  Hamburg | Knockout | 5–17 Nov | 16 |  Alexander Grischuk |  Jan-Krzysztof Duda |  Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
Daniil Dubov
FIDE Grand Prix Jerusalem |  Jerusalem | Knockout | 11–23 Dec | 16 |  Ian Nepomniachtchi |  Wei Yi |  David Navara
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
FIDE World Cup |  Khanty-Mansiysk | Knockout | 9 Sep – 4 Oct | 128 |  Teimour Radjabov |  Ding Liren |  Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
FIDE Grand Swiss |  Isle of Man | Swiss | 10–21 Oct | 154 |  Wang Hao |  Fabiano Caruana |  Kirill Alekseenko
FIDE Fischer Random Chess Championship |  Bærum | Knockout | 27 Oct – 2 Nov | 4 |  Wesley So |  Magnus Carlsen |  Ian Nepomniachtchi
World Rapid Chess Championship |  Moscow | Swiss | 26–28 Dec | 204 |  Magnus Carlsen |  Alireza Firouzja |  Hikaru Nakamura
World Blitz Chess Championship |  Moscow | Swiss | 29–30 Dec | 206 |  Magnus Carlsen |  Hikaru Nakamura |  Vladimir Kramnik

### Team events[edit]

Tournament | City | System | Dates | Teams | Winner | Runner-up | Third

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World Team Chess Championship |  Astana | Round robin | 5–14 Mar | 10 |  Russia |  England |  China
Women's World Team Chess Championship |  Astana | Round robin | 5–14 Mar | 10 |  China |  Russia |  Georgia
European Team Chess Championship |  Batumi | Round robin | 23 Oct – 3 Nov | 40 |  Russia |  Ukraine |  England
Women's European Team Chess Championship |  Batumi | Round robin | 23 Oct – 3 Nov | 32 |  Russia |  Georgia |  Azerbaijan

### Rapid & Blitz Tournaments[edit]

Tournament | City | System | Dates | Players | Winner | Runner-up | Third

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Norway Chess Blitz Tournament |  Stavanger | Round robin | 3 Jun | 10 |  Maxime Vachier-Lagrave |  Levon Aronian |  Magnus Carlsen
Lindores Abbey Chess Stars |  Newburgh | 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 Jul – 1 Aug | 10 |  Maxime Vachier-Lagrave |  Viswanathan Anand |  Ian Nepomniachtchi
Levitov Chess Week Blitz |  Amsterdam | Round robin | 3 Aug | 8 |  Vladimir Kramnik |  Viswanathan Anand |  Alexander Grischuk
Levitov Chess Week Rapid |  Amsterdam | Round robin | 4–6 Aug | 8 |  Ian Nepomniachtchi |  Alexander Grischuk |  Anish Giri
Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz |  St. Louis | Round robin | 10–Aug | 10 |  Levon Aronian |  Maxime Vachier-Lagrave |  Ding Liren
Superbet Rapid & Blitz |  Bucharest | Round robin | 6–10 Nov | 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[edit]

* Tamar Khmiadashvili, a Georgian Woman Grandmaster with multiple wins in the Georgian Women's Championship and Women's World Senior Championship.[citation needed]
* 7 January – Khosro Harandi, first Iranian International Master and three-time winner of the Iranian Chess Championship, dies at age 87.[citation needed]
* 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.[citation needed]
* 6 July – Ragnar Hoen, Norwegian FIDE Master who won the Norwegian Chess Championship in 1963, 1978, and 1981, dies at age 78.[citation needed]
* 11 August – Shelby Lyman, American chess player and teacher, dies at age 82.[citation needed]
* 26 August – Pal Benko, Hungarian-American Grandmaster, author and composer of endgame studies, dies at age 91.[2]
* 5 September – Nenad Šulava, 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[edit]

1. ^ UN adopts July 20 as World Chess Day, FIDE, 13 December 2019, retrieved 2 May 2020
2. ^ McClain, Dylan Loeb (26 August 2019). "Pal Benko, who stepped aside for Bobby Fischer, dies at 91". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 28 August 2019. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
3. ^ International Chess Federation [@FIDE_Chess] (8 September 2019). "Croatian GM Nenad Sulava passed away on September 5" (Tweet) - via Twitter.
4. ^ International Chess Federation (6 September 2019), Nenad Sulava dies at 56, retrieved 26 January 2020

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