2020 in chess

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.

Years in chess
2020 in sports

2020 tournaments

This is a list of significant 2020 chess tournaments:

Supertournaments
TournamentSystemDatesPlayers (2700+)WinnerRunner-upThird
Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2020Round robin10–26 Jan14 (11) Fabiano Caruana Magnus Carlsen Wesley So
Tata Steel Challengers 2020Round robin10–26 Jan14 (0) David Anton Guijarro Nodirbek Abdusattorov Pavel Eljanov
Prague Chess Festival 2020Round robin12–21 Feb10 (6) Alireza Firouzja Vidit Santosh Gujrathi Jan-Krzysztof Duda
Biel Chess Festival 2020Round-robin18–29 Jul8 (4) Radoslaw Wojtaszek Pentala Harikrishna Michael Adams
Norway Chess 2020Round robin5–16 Oct6 (5) Magnus Carlsen Alireza Firouzja Levon Aronian
Russian Championship Superfinal 2020Round robin6–14 Dec11 (6) Ian Nepomniachtchi Sergey Karjakin Vladimir Fedoseev

Open events
TournamentSystemDatesWinnerRunner-upThird
Gibraltar Chess Festival 2020Swiss21–30 Jan David Paravyan Wang Hao Andrey Esipenko

Daniil Yuffa

Aeroflot Open 2020Swiss19–27 Feb Aydin Suleymanli Rinat Jumabayev Rauf Mamedov

Deaths

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