2013 in chess

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This article features a list of events in chess during the year 2013, as well as the FIDE top ten ranked players in September of that year.

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2013 tournaments

This is a list of significant 2013 chess tournaments:

TournamentDatesPlayersWinnerRunner-upThird
2013 Tata Steel Chess Tournament 12–27 January14 Flag of Norway.svg Magnus Carlsen Flag of Armenia.svg Levon Aronian Flag of India.svg Viswanathan Anand
2013 Zurich Chess Challenge 23 February – 1 March4 Flag of Italy.svg Fabiano Caruana Flag of India.svg Viswanathan Anand Flag of Russia.svg Vladimir Kramnik
2013 Candidates Tournament 15 March – 1 April8 Flag of Norway.svg Magnus Carlsen Flag of Russia.svg Vladimir Kramnik Flag of Russia.svg Peter Svidler
2013 Zurich Grand Prix 17 April – 1 May12 Flag of Bulgaria.svg Veselin Topalov Flag of the United States.svg Hikaru Nakamura Flag of Ukraine.svg Ruslan Ponomariov
2013 Alekhine Memorial 20 April – 1 May10 Flag of Armenia.svg Levon Aronian Flag of Israel.svg Boris Gelfand Flag of India.svg Viswanathan Anand
2013 Norway Chess 7–18 May10 Flag of Russia.svg Sergey Karjakin Flag of Norway.svg Magnus Carlsen Flag of the United States.svg Hikaru Nakamura
2013 Thessaloniki Grand Prix 21 May – 4 June12 Flag of Cuba.svg Leinier Domínguez Flag of Italy.svg Fabiano Caruana Flag of the United States.svg Gata Kamsky
2013 Tal Memorial 12–23 June10 Flag of Israel.svg Boris Gelfand Flag of Norway.svg Magnus Carlsen Flag of Italy.svg Fabiano Caruana
2013 Beijing Grand Prix 3–17 July12 Flag of Azerbaijan.svg Shakhriyar Mamedyarov Flag of Russia.svg Alexander Grischuk Flag of Bulgaria.svg Veselin Topalov
2013 Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting 26 July – 4 August10 Flag of England.svg Michael Adams Flag of Russia.svg Vladimir Kramnik Flag of Germany.svg Arkadij Naiditsch
2013 Chess World Cup 10 August – 4 September128 Flag of Russia.svg Vladimir Kramnik Flag of Russia.svg Dmitry Andreikin Flag of Russia.svg Evgeny Tomashevsky
Flag of France.svg Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
2013 Sinquefield Cup 9–15 September4 Flag of Norway.svg Magnus Carlsen Flag of the United States.svg Hikaru Nakamura Flag of Armenia.svg Levon Aronian
2013 Women's World Chess Championship 10–27 September2 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Hou Yifan Flag of Ukraine.svg Anna Ushenina
2013 Paris Grand Prix 21 September – 5 October12 Flag of Italy.svg Fabiano Caruana Flag of Israel.svg Boris Gelfand Flag of the United States.svg Hikaru Nakamura
2013 Bilbao Chess Masters Final 7–12 October4 Flag of Armenia.svg Levon Aronian Flag of England.svg Michael Adams Flag of France.svg Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
2013 World Chess Championship 6–26 November2 Flag of Norway.svg Magnus Carlsen Flag of India.svg Viswanathan Anand
2013 London Chess Classic 7–15 December16 Flag of the United States.svg Hikaru Nakamura Flag of Israel.svg Boris Gelfand Flag of England.svg Michael Adams
Flag of Russia.svg Vladimir Kramnik

Key dates

FIDE World Rankings

The FIDE World Rankings as of September 2013 were: [1]

RankPlayerRating
1 Flag of Norway.svg Magnus Carlsen 2862
2 Flag of Armenia.svg Levon Aronian 2813
3 Flag of Russia.svg Vladimir Kramnik 2794
4 Flag of Russia.svg Alexander Grischuk 2785
5 Flag of Italy.svg Fabiano Caruana 2779
6 Flag of India.svg Viswanathan Anand 2775
7 Flag of Azerbaijan.svg Shakhriyar Mamedyarov 2775
8 Flag of Russia.svg Sergey Karjakin 2772
9 Flag of the United States.svg Hikaru Nakamura 2772
10 Flag of Bulgaria.svg Veselin Topalov 2769
11 Flag of Israel.svg Boris Gelfand 2764
12 Flag of England.svg Michael Adams 2761
13 Flag of Cuba.svg Leinier Domínguez 2757
14 Flag of Ukraine.svg Ruslan Ponomariov 2756
15 Flag of Russia.svg Peter Svidler 2746
16 Flag of the United States.svg Gata Kamsky 2741
17 Flag of Hungary.svg Peter Leko 2740
18 Flag of Russia.svg Alexander Morozevich 2739
19 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Anish Giri 2737
20 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Wang Hao 2736

References