Years in chess
2020 in sports

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) United States Fabiano Caruana Norway Magnus Carlsen United States Wesley So
Tata Steel Challengers 2020 Round robin 10–26 Jan 14 (0) Spain David Anton Guijarro Uzbekistan Nodirbek Abdusattorov Ukraine Pavel Eljanov
Prague Chess Festival 2020 Round robin 12–21 Feb 10 (6) Iran Alireza Firouzja India Vidit Santosh Gujrathi Poland Jan-Krzysztof Duda
Biel Chess Festival 2020 Round-robin 18–29 Jul 8 (4) Poland Radoslaw Wojtaszek India Pentala Harikrishna England Michael Adams
Norway Chess 2020 Round robin 5–16 Oct 6 (5) Norway Magnus Carlsen Iran Alireza Firouzja Armenia Levon Aronian
Russian Championship Superfinal 2020 Round robin 6–14 Dec 11 (6) Russia Ian Nepomniachtchi Russia Sergey Karjakin Russia Vladimir Fedoseev

Open events

Tournament System Dates Winner Runner-up Third
Gibraltar Chess Festival 2020 Swiss 21–30 Jan Russia David Paravyan China Wang Hao Russia Andrey Esipenko

Russia Daniil Yuffa

Aeroflot Open 2020 Swiss 19–27 Feb Azerbaijan Aydin Suleymanli Kazakhstan Rinat Jumabayev Azerbaijan Rauf Mamedov

Deaths

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