2023 in chess

The main events in the 2023 chess calendar are the World Chess Championship 2023[1][2] and Women's World Chess Championship 2023.[3] The top three finishers from the Chess World Cup 2023, the winner and runner-up of the FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2023 and the winner of the FIDE Circuit 2023 will qualify for the Candidates Tournament 2024. FIDE Circuit is the new path to qualify for the Candidates Tournament. One player who would achieve the highest results during 2023 in eligible tournaments gets the spot in the Candidates. The final score is calculated as the sum of the player’s five highest scores.[4]

Years in chess
2023 in sports

2023 tournaments
TournamentCitySystemDatesPlayers (2700+)WinnerRunner-upThird
Tata Steel MastersNetherlands Wijk aan ZeeRound robin13–29 Jan14 (11)Netherlands Anish GiriUzbekistan Nodirbek AbdusattorovNorway Magnus Carlsen
Tata Steel ChallengersNetherlands Wijk aan ZeeRound robin13–29 Jan14 (0)Germany Alexander DonchenkoTurkey Mustafa YılmazUzbekistan Javokhir Sindarov
WR Chess Masters Germany Dusseldorf Round robin 15–26 Feb 10 (7) Levon Aronian India Gukesh D FIDE Ian Nepomniachtchi
European Individual Chess Championship Serbia Vrnjacka Banja Swiss 3–13 Mar 484 (0) FIDE Alexey Sarana Romania Kirill Shevchenko Belgium Daniel Dardha
American Cup United States St. Louis Double-elimination 17–26 Mar 8 (7) United States Hikaru Nakamura United States Wesley So Levon Aronian
Reykjavik Open Iceland Reykjavik Swiss 29 Mar – 4 Apr 401 (0) Sweden Nils Grandelius Turkey Mustafa Yılmaz India Abhijeet Gupta
Spring Chess Classic United States St. Louis Round robin 5–12 Apr 10 (0) Netherlands Benjamin Bok United States Samuel Sevian Cuba Yasser Quesada
World Chess Championship 2023 Kazakhstan Astana Match 9–30 Apr 2 (2) China Ding Liren FIDE Ian Nepomniachtchi —
Menorca Open Spain Menorca Swiss 11–16 Apr 200 (2) India Gukesh D India Pranav V Netherlands Jorden van Foreest
TePe Sigeman & Co Sweden Malmö Round robin 4–10 May 8 (3) FIDE Peter Svidler India Gukesh D United States Abhimanyu Mishra
Superbet Chess Classic Romania Bucharest Round robin 6–15 May 10 (10) United States Fabiano Caruana France Alireza Firouzja United States Wesley So
Sharjah Masters United Arab Emirates Sharjah Swiss 17–25 May 78 (8) India Arjun Erigaisi United States Samuel Sevian India Gukesh D
Dubai Open United Arab Emirates Dubai Swiss 27 May – 4 Jun 86 (3) India Aravindh Chithambaram Uzbekistan Javokhir Sindarov India Arjun Erigaisi
Norway Chess Norway Stavanger Round robin 30 May – 9 Jun 10 (9) United States Hikaru Nakamura United States Fabiano Caruana India Gukesh D
Prague Chess Festival Czech Republic Prague Round robin 21–30 Jun 10 (3) United States Ray Robson Romania Bogdan-Daniel Deac India Pentala Harikrishna
Bydgoszcz Chess Festival Poland Warsaw Round robin 24 Jun – 2 Jul 6 (0) Netherlands Jorden van Foreest Radosław Wojtaszek Spain David Anton Guijarro
No Castling World Masters Germany Dortmund Round robin 26 Jun – 2 Jul 4 (2) United States Fabiano Caruana FIDE Vladimir Kramnik Germany Dmitrij Kollars
Dutch Championship Netherlands Utrecht Single-elimination 2–9 Jul 13 (1) Netherlands Anish Giri Netherlands Jorden van Foreest Netherlands Erwin l'Ami
Netherlands Max Warmerdam
Geza Hetenyi Memorial Hungary Budapest Round robin 11–19 Jul 10 (4) India R Praggnanandhaa Iran Amin Tabatabaei FIDE Sanan Sjugirov
Biel Grandmaster Triathlon Switzerland Biel Round robin 16–26 Jul 8 (4) Vietnam Le Quang Liem Germany Vincent Keymer Czech Republic David Navara
Chess World Cup Azerbaijan Baku Single-elimination 30 Jul – 24 Aug 206 (25) Norway Magnus Carlsen India R Praggnanandhaa United States Fabiano Caruana

Women's tournaments
TournamentCitySystemDatesPlayers (2500+)WinnerRunner-upThird
FIDE Women's Grand Prix MunichGermany MunichRound robin1–14 Feb12 (7)Switzerland Alexandra KosteniukIndia Koneru HumpyGeorgia (country) Nana Dzagnidze
European Women's Chess Championship Montenegro Petrovac Swiss 18–29 Mar 136 (0) Georgia (country) Meri Arabidze Poland Oliwia Kiołbasa Poland Aleksandra Maltsevskaya
FIDE Women's Grand Prix New Delhi India New Delhi Round robin 24 Mar – 6 Apr 10 (5) FIDE Aleksandra Goryachkina Kazakhstan Bibisara Assaubayeva China Zhu Jiner
Women's Candidates Tournament Final China Chongqing Match 27 Mar – 6 Apr 2 (2) China Lei Tingjie China Tan Zhongyi —
FIDE Women's Grand Prix Nicosia Cyprus Nicosia Round robin 15–28 May 12 (6) Germany Dinara Wagner India Harika Dronavalli FIDE Polina Shuvalova
Cairns Cup United States St. Louis Round robin 3–13 Jun 10 (4) United States Anna Zatonskih Switzerland Alexandra Kosteniuk Georgia (country) Bella Khotenashvili
Women's World Chess Championship 2023 China Shanghai & Chongqing Match 5–24 Jul 2 (2) China Ju Wenjun China Lei Tingjie —

Rapid & Blitz tournaments
TournamentCitySystemDatesPlayers (2700+)WinnerRunner-upThird
Armageddon Asia & Oceania Germany Berlin Double-elimination 3–9 Apr 8 (7) India Gukesh D Uzbekistan Nodirbek Abdusattorov FIDE Vladimir Kramnik
Satty Zhuldyz Rapid & Blitz Kazakhstan Astana Round robin 20–25 Apr 12 (5) Levon Aronian India Arjun Erigaisi Armenia Haik Martirosyan
Salamanca Chess Festival Spain Salamanca Round robin 26–29 Apr 8 (1) FIDE Kirill Alekseenko Spain Jaime Santos Latasa Ukraine Vasyl Ivanchuk
Bucharest Grand Prix Rapid Romania Bucharest Swiss 29–30 Apr 317 (2) FIDE Maksim Chigaev Romania Bogdan-Daniel Deac India Pentala Harikrishna
Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland Poland Warsaw Round robin 17–24 May 10 (8) Norway Magnus Carlsen Jan-Krzysztof Duda United States Wesley So
Norway Chess Blitz Norway Stavanger Round robin 29 May 10 (9) Uzbekistan Nodirbek Abdusattorov France Alireza Firouzja Azerbaijan Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
Armageddon Europe & Africa Germany Berlin Double-elimination 12–18 Jun 8 (4) Romania Richárd Rapport Jan-Krzysztof Duda France Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz Croatia Croatia Zagreb Round robin 5–9 Jul 10 (8) Norway Magnus Carlsen FIDE Ian Nepomniachtchi France Alireza Firouzja
Tata Steel India Rapid India Kolkata Round robin 5–7 Sep 10 (10) France Maxime Vachier-Lagrave Azerbaijan Teimour Radjabov India R Praggnanandhaa
Tata Steel India Blitz India Kolkata Round robin 8–9 Sep 10 (10) FIDE Alexander Grischuk Uzbekistan Nodirbek Abdusattorov India R Praggnanandhaa
Armageddon Grand Finale Germany Berlin Double-elimination 14–20 Sep 8 (5) Jan-Krzysztof Duda United States Wesley So Uzbekistan Nodirbek Abdusattorov
Levitov Chess Week Netherlands Amsterdam Round robin 22–26 Sep 10 (8) FIDE Ian Nepomniachtchi FIDE Peter Svidler
United States Levon Aronian		 —

See also

Deaths

References
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