2013 in chess

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.

2013 tournaments

This is a list of significant 2013 chess tournaments: Tournament Dates Players Winner Runner-up Third 2013 Tata Steel Chess Tournament 12–27 January 14 Magnus Carlsen Levon Aronian Viswanathan Anand 2013 Zurich Chess Challenge 23 February – 1 March 4 Fabiano Caruana Viswanathan Anand Vladimir Kramnik 2013 Candidates Tournament 15 March – 1 April 8 Magnus Carlsen Vladimir Kramnik Peter Svidler 2013 Zurich Grand Prix 17 April – 1 May 12 Veselin Topalov Hikaru Nakamura Ruslan Ponomariov 2013 Alekhine Memorial 20 April – 1 May 10 Levon Aronian Boris Gelfand Viswanathan Anand 2013 Norway Chess 7–18 May 10 Sergey Karjakin Magnus Carlsen Hikaru Nakamura 2013 Thessaloniki Grand Prix 21 May – 4 June 12 Leinier Domínguez Fabiano Caruana Gata Kamsky 2013 Tal Memorial 12–23 June 10 Boris Gelfand Magnus Carlsen Fabiano Caruana 2013 Beijing Grand Prix 3–17 July 12 Shakhriyar Mamedyarov Alexander Grischuk Veselin Topalov 2013 Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting 26 July – 4 August 10 Michael Adams Vladimir Kramnik Arkadij Naiditsch 2013 Chess World Cup 10 August – 4 September 128 Vladimir Kramnik Dmitry Andreikin Evgeny Tomashevsky Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 2013 Sinquefield Cup 9–15 September 4 Magnus Carlsen Hikaru Nakamura Levon Aronian 2013 Women's World Chess Championship 10–27 September 2 Hou Yifan Anna Ushenina – 2013 Paris Grand Prix 21 September – 5 October 12 Fabiano Caruana Boris Gelfand Hikaru Nakamura 2013 Bilbao Chess Masters Final 7–12 October 4 Levon Aronian Michael Adams Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 2013 World Chess Championship 6–26 November 2 Magnus Carlsen Viswanathan Anand – 2013 London Chess Classic 7–15 December 16 Hikaru Nakamura Boris Gelfand Michael Adams Vladimir Kramnik

Key dates 1 April – Magnus Carlsen wins the right to challenge Viswanathan Anand for the 2013 World Chess Championship after winning the Candidates Tournament on tiebreaks.

FIDE World Rankings

The FIDE World Rankings as of September 2013 were:FIDE: Top 100 Players

RankPlayerRating1 Magnus Carlsen28622 Levon Aronian28133 Vladimir Kramnik27944 Alexander Grischuk27855 Fabiano Caruana27796 Viswanathan Anand27757 Shakhriyar Mamedyarov27758 Sergey Karjakin27729 Hikaru Nakamura277210 Veselin Topalov276911 Boris Gelfand276412 Michael Adams276113 Leinier Domínguez275714 Ruslan Ponomariov275615 Peter Svidler274616 Gata Kamsky274117 Peter Leko274018 Alexander Morozevich273919 Anish Giri273720 Wang Hao2736

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