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Overview of the events of 2020 in chess From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
This is a list of significant 2020 chess tournaments:
Tournament | System | Dates | Players (2700+) | Winner | Runner-up | Third |
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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 Duda |
Biel 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 |
Tournament | System | Dates | Winner | Runner-up | Third |
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Gibraltar Chess Festival 2020 | Swiss | 21–30 Jan | David Paravyan | Wang Hao | Andrey Esipenko |
Aeroflot Open 2020 | Swiss | 19–27 Feb | Aydin Suleymanli | Rinat Jumabayev | Rauf Mamedov |
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