2018 in chess

2018 tournaments

This is a list of significant 2018 chess tournaments:

TournamentSystemDatesPlayers (2700+)WinnerRunner-upThird
Tata Steel Chess TournamentRound robin12–28 Jan14 (11) Magnus Carlsen Anish Giri Vladimir Kramnik
Gibraltar Chess FestivalSwiss23 Jan – 1 Feb276 (12) Levon Aronian Maxime Vachier-Lagrave Hikaru Nakamura
Candidates Tournament 2018Round robin10–28 Mar8 (8) Fabiano Caruana Shakhriyar Mamedyarov Sergey Karjakin
Grenke Chess Classic 2018Round robin31 Mar – 9 Apr10 (7) Fabiano Caruana Magnus Carlsen Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
Nikita Vitiugov
Shamkir Chess 2018Round robin18–28 Apr10 (10) Magnus Carlsen Ding Liren Sergey Karjakin
Women's World Chess Championship 2018 (match)Match2–20 May2 (0) Ju Wenjun Tan Zhongyi—
Norway Chess 2018Round robin27 May – 7 Jun10 (10) Fabiano Caruana Magnus Carlsen Hikaru Nakamura
Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting 2018Round robin14–22 Jul8 (5) Ian Nepomniachtchi Anish Giri Vladislav Kovalev
Biel Chess Festival 2018[1]Round robin22 Jul – 1 Aug6 (5) Shakhriyar Mamedyarov Magnus Carlsen Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
Sinquefield Cup 2018Round robin18–28 Aug10 (10) Magnus Carlsen
Fabiano Caruana
Levon Aronian		——
43rd Chess Olympiad (open event)Swiss23 Sep – 6 Octteams China United States Russia
43rd Chess Olympiad (women event)Swiss23 Sep – 6 Octteams China Ukraine Georgia
Women's World Chess Championship 2018 (tournament)Knockout2–23 Nov64
World Chess Championship 2018Match9–28 Nov2 (2) Magnus Carlsen
Fabiano Caruana
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London Chess Classic 2018Round robinDec

Transfer
ChessplayerFrom whichWhither
José González García Mexico Spain
Boris Nikolov Chatalbashev Bulgaria Denmark
Alexei Shirov Latvia Spain

Deaths
  • Robert Abbott (2 March 1933 – 20 February 2018), American game designer and chess variant creator.
  • Peggy Clarke (29 October 1937 – 15 September 2018), British Women's Champion in 1966.
  • Roberto Luis Debarnot (5 August 1947 – 25 May 2018), Argentine International Master and three-time Olympian.
  • Győző Forintos (30 July 1935 – 5 December 2018), Hungarian Grandmaster, chess writer and six-time Olympian.
  • Giam Choo Kwee (7 May 1942 – 13 August 2018), Singaporean International Master, four-time Olympian, and two-time Singapore Chess Champion.
  • Ruth Haring (23 January 1955 – 29 November 2018), American chess Woman International Master and five-time Olympian.
  • Nino Khurtsidze (28 September 1975 – 22 April 2018), Georgian International Master and Woman Grandmaster, five-time Olympian, Georgian Champion in 1998, and five-time Georgian Women's Champion.
  • Stefán Kristjánsson (8 December 1982 – 28 February 2018), Icelandic Grandmaster and five-time Olympian.[2]
  • Aloyzas Kveinys (9 July 1962 – 26 July 2018), Lithuanian Grandmaster and eight-time Olympian.
  • Milunka Lazarević (1 December 1932 – 15 December 2018), Serbian chess player and journalist.
  • Anatoly Lein (28 March 1931 – 1 March 2018), Soviet and American Grandmaster.
  • Erwin Nievergelt (29 April 1929 — 4 August 2018), Swiss Olympian in 1954 and 1958.
  • Eric Schiller (20 March 1955 – 3 November 2018), American FIDE Master and chess author.
  • Philip Short (15 May 1960 – 31 August 2018), Irish FIDE Master and five-time Irish Champion.
  • Evgeni Vasiukov (5 March 1933 – 10 May 2018), Soviet Grandmaster and 1995 World Senior Champion.

References
  1. https://www.chess.com/news/view/carlsen-2nd-behind-mamedyarov-in-biel-as-georgiadis-blunders
  2. Brynjólfur Þór Guðmundsson (1 March 2018). "Stefán Kristjánsson látinn". ruv.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 24 March 2018.


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