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
Open events edit
| Tournament | City | System | Dates | Players | Winner | Runner-up | Third |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
Team events edit
| Tournament | City | System | Dates | Teams | Winner | Runner-up | Third |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
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
- ^ UN adopts July 20 as World Chess Day, FIDE, 13 December 2019, retrieved 2 May 2020
- ^ 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.
- ^ International Chess Federation [@FIDE_Chess] (8 September 2019). "Croatian GM Nenad Sulava passed away on September 5" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ International Chess Federation (6 September 2019), Nenad Sulava dies at 56, retrieved 26 January 2020
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