The 2020 chess calendar was disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, but major events that took place included the Tata Steel Chess Tournament, won by Fabiano Caruana, and Norway Chess, won by Magnus Carlsen. The Candidates began in March, but, due to the pandemic, was postponed at the half-way stage with Ian Nepomniachtchi and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave leading.
2020 tournaments This is a list of significant 2020 chess tournaments:
Supertournaments Tournament System Dates Players (2700+) Winner Runner-up Third Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2020 Round robin 10–26 Jan 14 (11) Fabiano Caruana Magnus Carlsen Wesley So Tata Steel Challengers 2020 Round robin 10–26 Jan 14 (0) David Anton Guijarro Nodirbek Abdusattorov Pavel Eljanov Prague Chess Festival 2020 Round robin 12–21 Feb 10 (6) Alireza Firouzja Vidit Santosh Gujrathi Jan-Krzysztof DudaBiel Chess Festival 2020 Round-robin 18–29 Jul 8 (4) Radoslaw Wojtaszek Pentala Harikrishna Michael Adams Norway Chess 2020 Round robin 5–16 Oct 6 (5) Magnus Carlsen Alireza Firouzja Levon Aronian Russian Championship Superfinal 2020 Round robin 6–14 Dec 11 (6) Ian Nepomniachtchi Sergey Karjakin Vladimir Fedoseev
Open events Tournament System Dates Winner Runner-up Third Gibraltar Chess Festival 2020 Swiss 21–30 Jan David Paravyan Wang Hao Andrey Esipenko Daniil YuffaAeroflot Open 2020 Swiss 19–27 Feb Aydin Suleymanli Rinat Jumabayev Rauf Mamedov
Deaths 28 February — Gennady Kuzmin 5 March — Stanislav Bogdanovich 20 April — Arsen Yegiazarian 22 August — Miron Sher 24 August — Wolfgang Uhlmann 4 September — Dmitry Svetushkin 1 November — Markus Stangl 17 December — Krzysztof Bulski
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