Major

chess Chess is a board game for two players. It is an abstract strategy game that involves Perfect information, no hidden information and no elements of game of chance, chance. It is played on a square chessboard, board consisting of 64 squares arran ...

events that took place in 2019 include the

Tata Steel Tata Steel Limited is an Indian multinational steel-making company headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, with its primary operations based in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand. It is a subsidiary of the Tata Group. Formerly known as Tata Iron and Steel ...

Shamkir Chess Gashimov Memorial is a chess supertournament played in Azerbaijan in memory of Vugar Gashimov (24th July 1986– 11th January 2014). Winners 2014 The Gashimov Memorial 2014 took place in the Heydar Aliyev Centre in Shamkir City from 16 Apri ...

Grenke Chess Classic The Grenke Chess Festival is an annual chess event held in the German cities of Karlsruhe and Baden-Baden and sponsored by Grenke AG. The Grenke Chess Classic was a strong closed tournament first held in 2013, which featured many of the world's ...

and

Norway Chess Norway Chess is an annual closed chess tournament, typically taking place in the May to June time period every year. The first edition took place in the Stavanger area, Norway, from 7 May to 18 May 2013. The 2013 tournament had ten participants, in ...

, all won by World Champion

Magnus Carlsen Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen (born 30 November 1990) is a Norwegian Grandmaster (chess), chess grandmaster. Carlsen is a five-time World Chess Championship, World Chess Champion, five-time World Rapid Chess Championship, World Rapid Chess Champio ...

Events

12 December – The

United Nations General Assembly The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA or GA; , AGNU or AG) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN), serving as its main deliberative, policymaking, and representative organ. Currently in its Seventy-ninth session of th ...

approves a resolution designating 20 July as "World Chess Day", marking the date of the establishment of the International Chess Federation (FIDE) in Paris on 20 July 1924.

2019 tournaments

Supertournaments

Open events

FIDE Events

Team events

Rapid & Blitz Tournaments

Deaths

* Tamar Khmiadashvili, a Georgian Woman Grandmaster with multiple wins in the Georgian Women's Championship and Women's World Senior Championship. * 7 January – Khosro Harandi, first Iranian International Master and three-time winner of the

Iranian Chess Championship The Iranian Chess Championship is the yearly national chess championship of Iran. Below is the gallery of champions, notice the gap between 1980 and 1990 (1359 and 1369 according to the Iranian calendar), when chess was forbidden in Iran. There is ...

, dies at age 87. * 31 March –

Eva Moser Eva Moser (26 July 1982 – 31 March 2019) was an Austrian chess player. She was awarded the titles International Master (IM), in 2004, and Woman Grandmaster (WGM), in 2003, by FIDE. Moser won both the absolute and women's Austrian chess champion ...

, Austria's first Woman Grandmaster and in 2006 became the first woman to win the absolute

Austrian Chess Championship The Austrian Chess Championship is held by the Austrian Chess Federation (''Österreichischer Schachbund''). For its correspondence chess subdivision, see OESB-FS. Unofficial Championships : Official Championships * Erich Eliskases won two mat ...

, dies at age 36. * 6 July – Ragnar Hoen, Norwegian FIDE Master who won the Norwegian Chess Championship in 1963, 1978, and 1981, dies at age 78. * 11 August – Shelby Lyman, American chess player and teacher, dies at age 82. * 26 August –

Pal Benko Pal Charles Benko (; July 15, 1928 – August 25, 2019) was a Hungarian and American chess grandmaster, author, and composer of endgame studies and chess problems. Early life Benko was born on July 15, 1928, in Amiens, France, where his ...

, Hungarian-American Grandmaster, author and composer of endgame studies, dies at age 91. * 5 September – Nenad Šulava, Croatian Grandmaster, dies at age 56. * 11 September – Zbigniew Szymczak, Polish International Master and Polish chess champion in 1983, dies at age 67. * 9 September –

Yoel Aloni Yoel Aloni (; September 30, 1937 – September 9, 2019) was an Israeli chess master and problemist. He was the twin brother of Hillel Aloni (1937–2017). He played twice for Israel in Chess Olympiads. * In 1964, at fourth board in 16th Chess ...

, Israeli chess player and problemist, dies at age 90. * 23 September – Harri Hurme, Finnish FIDE Master and International Solving Master, dies at age 74. * 30 December – Beatriz Alfonso Nogue, Spanish Woman FIDE Master, dies at age 51.

References

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