This article details the year of 2017 with respect to the game of chess. Major chess-related events that took place in 2017 include the Women's World Chess Championship 2017 knockout tournament, the Chess World Cup, the FIDE Grand Prix Series, and the abolishing of the consecutiveness requirement within the fivefold repetition rule.
2017 tournaments This is a list of significant 2017 chess tournaments: Tournament System Dates Players (2700+) Winner Runner-up Third Tata Steel Chess TournamentRound robin 13–29 Jan 14 (13) Wesley So Magnus Carlsen Baskaran Adhiban Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival Swiss 24 Jan – 2 Feb 255 (12) Hikaru Nakamura David Antón Guijarro Yu Yangyi FIDE Grand Prix 2017 (Sharjah) Swiss 18–27 Feb 18 (13) Alexander Grischuk Maxime Vachier-Lagrave Shakhriyar Mamedyarov Zurich Chess Challenge Round robin 12–27 Apr 8 (6) 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 (3) Wesley So Alexander Onischuk Fabiano Caruana Women's European Individual Chess Championship (Riga) Swiss 11 Apr – 22 Apr 144 Nana Dzagnidze Aleksandra Goryachkina Alisa Galliamova FIDE Grand Prix 2017 (Moscow) Swiss 12–21 May 18 (14) Ding Liren Shakhriyar Mamedyarov Hou Yifan European Individual Chess Championship Swiss 29 May – 10 Jun 402 (9) Maxim Matlakov Baadur Jobava Vladimir Fedoseev Norway Chess 2017 Round robin 5–17 Jun 10 (10) Levon Aronian Hikaru Nakamura Vladimir Kramnik World Team Chess Championship Team 16–28 Jun 10 teams China Russia Poland FIDE Grand Prix 2017 (Geneva) Swiss 6–15 Jul 18 (14) Teimour Radjabov Ian Nepomniachtchi Alexander Grischuk Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting 2017 Round robin 15–23 Jul 8 (5) Radoslaw Wojtaszek Vladimir Fedoseev Maxime Vachier-Lagrave Sinquefield Cup 2017 Round robin 2–11 Aug 10 (10) Maxime Vachier-Lagrave Magnus Carlsen Viswanathan Anand Chess World Cup 2017 Knockout 3–27 Sep 128 (40) Levon Aronian Ding Liren Wesley So Maxime Vachier-Lagrave Isle of Man International Masters 2017 Swiss 23 Sep – 1 Oct 161 (13) Magnus Carlsen Viswanathan Anand Hikaru Nakamura FIDE Grand Prix 2017 (Palma de Mallorca) Swiss 16–27 Nov 18 (14) Dmitry Jakovenko Levon Aronian Teimour Radjabov London Chess Classic 2017 Round robin 30 Nov – 11 Dec 10 (10) Fabiano Caruana Ian Nepomniachtchi Magnus Carlsen 2017 World Rapid Chess Championship Swiss 26–28 Dec 134 (32) Viswanathan Anand Vladimir Fedoseev Ian Nepomniachtchi 2017 World Blitz Chess Championship Swiss 29–30 Dec 138 (25) Magnus Carlsen Sergey Karjakin Viswanathan Anand
Deaths Hans Berliner (27 January 1929 – 13 January 2017), American International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster and World Correspondence Chess Champion (1965–1968). Arthur Bisguier (8 October 1929 – 5 April 2017), American Grandmaster, United States Champion in 1954, two-time US Junior Champion, three-time US Open Champion and five-time Olympian. Enver Bukić (2 December 1937 – 22 February 2017), Slovenian Grandmaster Algimantas Butnorius (20 February 1946 – 30 October 2017), Lithuanian Grandmaster and 2007 World Senior Champion. Cristina Adela Foișor (7 June 1967 – 22 January 2017), Romanian International Master and Woman Grandmaster, five-time Women's Romanian Champion and fourteen-time Olympian. Reinhart Fuchs (28 September 1934 – 16 December 2017), German International Master and six-time Olympian on the East German team. Josef Kupper (10 March 1932 – 5 June 2017), Swiss International Master, three-time Swiss Champion and four-time Olympian winning the individual silver in 1954. Viktor Kupreichik (3 July 1949 – 22 May 2017), Soviet and Belarusian Grandmaster, two-time Belarusian Champion. Hillar Kärner (27 July 1935 – 19 February 2017), Estonian International Master and seven-time Estonian Champion. Mirosława Litmanowicz (6 September 1928 – 18 August 2017), Polish Woman International Master, five-time Olympian, and Polish Women's Champion in 1968. William Lombardy (4 December 1937 – 13 October 2017), American Grandmaster, seven-time Olympian, World Junior Champion in 1957. Vladimir Malaniuk (21 July 1957 – 2 July 2017), Soviet and Ukrainian Grandmaster and three-time Ukrainian Champion. Nikolay Minev (8 November 1931 – 10 March 2017), Bulgarian International Master and chess writer. Corvin Radovici (19 December 1931 – 17 August 2017), Romanian International Master and three-time Olympian. Zoltan Sarosy (23 August 1906 – 19 June 2017), Hungarian and Canadian chess player, three-time Canadian Correspondence Champion. Samuel Schweber (16 July 1936 – 1 January 2017), Argentine International Master and five-time Olympian. Raymond Smullyan (25 May 1919 – 6 February 2017), American logician and creator of retrograde analysis chess problems. Vadim Teplitsky (18 June 1927 – 30 April 2017), Soviet and Israeli chess historian. Larissa Volpert (30 March 1926 – 1 October 2017), Soviet Woman Grandmaster and three-time Soviet Women's Champion. Valeri Yandemirov (11 February 1963 – 16 November 2017), Russian Grandmaster. Tatiana Zatulovskaya (8 December 1935 – 2 July 2017), Soviet, Russian and Israeli Woman Grandmaster, three-time Soviet Women's Champion, two-time Olympian and 1993 Women's World Senior Champion. Ljubica Živković (25 September 1936 – 13 June 2017), Yugoslav Woman International Master and 1959 Yugoslav Women's Champion.
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