2017 in chess

2017 tournaments

Tournament	System	Dates	Players	Winner	Runner-up	Third
Tata Steel Chess Tournament	Round robin	13–29 Jan	14	Wesley So	Magnus Carlsen	Baskaran Adhiban
Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival	Swiss	24 Jan – 2 Feb	255	Hikaru Nakamura	David Antón Guijarro	Yu Yangyi
FIDE Grand Prix 2017	Swiss	18–27 Feb	18	Alexander Grischuk	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave	Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
Zurich Chess Challenge	Round robin	12–27 Apr	8	Hikaru Nakamura	Ian Nepomniachtchi	Viswanathan Anand
Women's World Chess Championship 2017	Knockout	10 Feb – 5 Mar	64	Tan Zhongyi	Anna Muzychuk	Alexandra Kosteniuk Harika Dronavalli
U.S. Chess Championship	Round robin	28 Mar – 10 Apr	12	Wesley So	Alexander Onischuk	Fabiano Caruana
FIDE Grand Prix 2017	Swiss	12–21 May	18	Ding Liren	Shakhriyar Mamedyarov	Hou Yifan
European Individual Chess Championship	Swiss	29 May – 10 Jun	402	Maxim Matlakov	Baadur Jobava	Vladimir Fedoseev
Norway Chess 2017	Round robin	5–17 Jun	10	Levon Aronian	Hikaru Nakamura	Vladimir Kramnik
World Team Chess Championship	Team	16–28 Jun	10 teams	China	Russia	Poland
FIDE Grand Prix 2017	Swiss	6–15 Jul	18	Teimour Radjabov	Ian Nepomniachtchi	Alexander Grischuk
Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting 2017	Round robin	15–23 Jul	8	Radoslaw Wojtaszek	Vladimir Fedoseev	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
Sinquefield Cup 2017	Round robin	2–11 Aug	10	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave	Magnus Carlsen	Viswanathan Anand
Chess World Cup 2017	Knockout	3–27 Sep	128	Levon Aronian	Ding Liren	Wesley So Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
Isle of Man International Masters 2017	Swiss	23 Sep – 1 Oct	161	Magnus Carlsen	Viswanathan Anand	Hikaru Nakamura
FIDE Grand Prix 2017	Swiss	16–27 Nov	18	Dmitry Jakovenko	Levon Aronian	Teimour Radjabov
London Chess Classic 2017	Round robin	30 Nov – 11 Dec	10	Fabiano Caruana	Ian Nepomniachtchi	Magnus Carlsen
2017 World Rapid Chess Championship	Swiss	26 – 28 December	134	Viswanathan Anand	Vladimir Fedoseev	Ian Nepomniachtchi
2017 World Blitz Chess Championship	Swiss	29 – 30 December	138	Magnus Carlsen	Sergey Karjakin	Viswanathan Anand

Deaths

• Hans Berliner, American International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster and World Correspondence Chess Champion.
• Arthur Bisguier, American Grandmaster, United States Champion in 1954, two-time US Junior Champion, three-time US Open Champion and five-time Olympian.
• Algimantas Butnorius, Lithuanian Grandmaster and 2007 World Senior Champion.
• Cristina Adela Foișor, Romanian International Master and Woman Grandmaster, five-time Women's Romanian Champion and fourteen-time Olympian.
• Reinhart Fuchs, German International Master and six-time Olympian on the East German team.
• Josef Kupper, Swiss International Master, three-time Swiss Champion and four-time Olympian winning the individual silver in 1954.
• Viktor Kupreichik, Soviet and Belarusian Grandmaster, two-time Belarusian Champion.
• Hillar Kärner, Estonian International Master and seven-time Estonian Champion.
• Mirosława Litmanowicz, Polish Woman International Master, five-time Olympian, and Polish Women's Champion in 1968.
• William Lombardy, American Grandmaster, seven-time Olympian, World Junior Champion in 1957.
• Vladimir Malaniuk, Soviet and Ukrainian Grandmaster and three-time Ukrainian Champion.
• Nikolay Minev, Bulgarian International Master and chess writer.
• Corvin Radovici, Romanian International Master and three-time Olympian.
• Zoltan Sarosy, Hungarian and Canadian chess player, three-time Canadian Correspondence Champion.
• Samuel Schweber, Argentine International Master and five-time Olympian.
• Raymond Smullyan, American logician and creator of retrograde analysis chess problems.
• Vadim Teplitsky, Soviet and Israeli chess historian.
• Larissa Volpert, Soviet Woman Grandmaster and three-time Soviet Women's Champion.
• Valeri Yandemirov, Russian Grandmaster.
• Tatiana Zatulovskaya, Soviet, Russian and Israeli Woman Grandmaster, three-time Soviet Women's Champion, two-time Olympian and 1993 Women's World Senior Champion.
• Ljubica Živković, Yugoslav Woman International Master and 1959 Yugoslav Women's Champion.