2020 in chess

The 2020 chess calendar was disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, but major events that took place included the Tata Steel Chess Tournament, won by Fabiano Caruana, and Norway Chess, won by Magnus Carlsen. The Candidates began in March, but, due to the pandemic, was postponed at the half-way stage with Ian Nepomniachtchi and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave leading.

2020 tournaments

This is a list of significant 2020 chess tournaments:

Supertournaments

Tournament	System	Dates	Players (2700+)	Winner	Runner-up	Third
Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2020	Round robin	10–26 Jan	14 (11)	Fabiano Caruana	Magnus Carlsen	Wesley So
Tata Steel Challengers 2020	Round robin	10–26 Jan	14 (0)	David Anton Guijarro	Nodirbek Abdusattorov	Pavel Eljanov
Prague Chess Festival 2020	Round robin	12–21 Feb	10 (6)	Alireza Firouzja	Vidit Santosh Gujrathi	Jan-Krzysztof Duda
Biel Chess Festival 2020	Round-robin	18–29 Jul	8 (4)	Radoslaw Wojtaszek	Pentala Harikrishna	Michael Adams
Norway Chess 2020	Round robin	5–16 Oct	6 (5)	Magnus Carlsen	Alireza Firouzja	Levon Aronian
Russian Championship Superfinal 2020	Round robin	6–14 Dec	11 (6)	Ian Nepomniachtchi	Sergey Karjakin	Vladimir Fedoseev

Open events

Tournament	System	Dates	Winner	Runner-up	Third
Gibraltar Chess Festival 2020	Swiss	21–30 Jan	David Paravyan	Wang Hao	Andrey Esipenko Daniil Yuffa
Aeroflot Open 2020	Swiss	19–27 Feb	Aydin Suleymanli	Rinat Jumabayev	Rauf Mamedov

Deaths

• 28 February — Gennady Kuzmin ^[1]
• 5 March — Stanislav Bogdanovich ^[2]
• 20 April — Arsen Yegiazarian ^[3]
• 22 August — Miron Sher ^[4]
• 24 August — Wolfgang Uhlmann ^[5]
• 4 September — Dmitry Svetushkin ^[6]
• 1 November — Markus Stangl ^[7]
• 17 December — Krzysztof Bulski ^[8]

References

1. Solomatin (Marignon), Yury. "Gennady Kuzmin, 1946-2020". Chess.com.
2. "Станислав Богданович и его девушка найдены мёртвыми | chess-news.ru". chess-news.ru. Archived from the original on 7 March 2020. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
3. "Մահացել է գրոսմայստեր Արսեն Եղիազարյանը". www.1lurer.am (in Armenian). Retrieved 13 February 2021.
4. Hartmann, John (21 August 2020). "GM Miron Sher (1952-2020)". US Chess.org. Retrieved 13 February 2021.
5. McClain, Dylan Loeb (1 September 2020). "Wolfgang Uhlmann, East Germany's Top Chess Player, Dies at 85". The New York Times. Retrieved 13 February 2021.
6. "GM Dmitry Svetushkin (1980-2020)". Chess News. 11 September 2020. Retrieved 13 February 2021.
7. "GM Markus Stangl verstorben". Schach Nachrichten (in German). 2 November 2020. Retrieved 13 February 2021.
8. "PZSzach - Polski Związek Szachowy" (in Polish). Retrieved 13 February 2021.