2019 in chess

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

This is a list of significant 2019 chess tournaments:

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