2016 in chess


Major chess events that took place in 2016 included the Women's World Chess Championship 2016 between Mariya Muzychuk and Hou Yifan, won by Hou Yifan, and the Candidates Tournament, won by Sergey Karjakin, who challenged Magnus Carlsen in the World Chess Championship 2016. Magnus Carlsen won the match on tiebreaks and retained the title of World Chess Champion.

2016 tournaments

This is a list of significant 2016 chess tournaments:
TournamentDatesPlayersWinnerRunner-upThird
2016 Tata Steel Chess Tournament16–31 January14 Magnus Carlsen Fabiano Caruana Ding Liren
2016 Gibraltar Chess Festival26 Jan – 4 Feb150 Hikaru Nakamura Maxime Vachier-Lagrave Étienne Bacrot
2016 Zurich Chess Challenge12–15 February6 Hikaru Nakamura Viswanathan Anand Vladimir Kramnik
Women's World Chess Championship 20161–14 March2 Hou Yifan Mariya Muzychuk–
Candidates Tournament 201611–30 March8 Sergey Karjakin Fabiano Caruana Viswanathan Anand
U.S. Chess Championship 201613–30 April12 Fabiano Caruana Wesley So Hikaru Nakamura
Altibox Norway Chess 201618–30 April10 Magnus Carlsen Levon Aronian Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
Shamkir Chess 201626 May – 4 June10 Shakhriyar Mamedyarov Fabiano Caruana Anish Giri
Paris Grand Chess Tour9–12 June10 Hikaru Nakamura Magnus Carlsen Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
Leuven Grand Chess Tour17–20 June10 Magnus Carlsen Wesley So Levon Aronian
2016 Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting9–17 July8 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave Vladimir Kramnik
Fabiano Caruana
Leinier Dominguez Perez		–
Sinquefield Cup 20164–16 August10 Wesley So Levon Aronian Veselin Topalov
World Chess Championship 201611–30 November2 Magnus Carlsen Sergey Karjakin–
London Chess Classic 20169–18 December10 Wesley So Fabiano Caruana Hikaru Nakamura
2017 World Rapid Chess Championship26–28 December106 Vassily Ivanchuk Alexander Grischuk Magnus Carlsen
2017 World Blitz Chess Championship29–30 December108 Sergey Karjakin Magnus Carlsen Daniil Dubov